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Originally Posted by shalym
It sounds to me as if your "friends" aren't book readers, they're book hoarders. I don't understand why anyone would download hundreds of MB of unmanaged data to anywhere, whether e-reader or PC.
Shari
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Actually, the friend I've mentioned is one of the more avid readers in that group.
He reads about 100 to 150 books per year, so does his brother.
(They exchange content and recommendations).
But hoarding obviously is an aspect as well.
From what I've seen, his file management is rather basic: Some folders for authors, a few folders for genre. Lots of duplicates, lots of misspelled authors and titles.
But he claims, a few thousand are in perfect order.
And for the rest: "I have them, I may sort them out later. And where's the harm? It took me a few minutes to download only and there's plenty of room left on my SD card anyway".
Personally, I can understand the collecting. And the buying more than necessary (I've only read about 300 of my 1.000 Kindle books so far myself, but I keep buying what I'm interested in). What I don't quite get is the need for pirating. Buying his 20.000 books of course would be insane. But he definitely (easily) could afford buying his actual demand of 100 to 150 books per year, especially if (some) split with his brother.
But obviously, the psychology is a different one. Probably something like "wow, I own a library worth € 200k!"...