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Originally Posted by eschwartz
That and the squillions of Kindle owners who own three books.
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Not all that uncommon with any ereader. Those who want to carry a significant subset of the Library of Congress with them are quite rare. In my experience, the vast majority of ereader owners I've met average less than 12 books per year counting purchases and library loans.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
i.e. you said the words "around here". Highly unwise, since MobileRead is in no way representative of Amazon or Kobo's userbase or concerns.
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Actually, by around here, I meant in my physical area and not the MobileRead virtual community. There are a fair number of users of both Kobo and Kindle ereaders along with a few less common devices. For my sins, I seem to be regarded as someone to ask about ereaders so I get a fair amount of input about various ereader models. "Which do you think is the best ereader?" (It's not being sold yet...) being the most common followed by "How do I get ebooks from the local library to my Kindle?" (Around here, you don't without significant error and help from Apprentice Alf).
BTW, the co-worker I mentioned who strips covers and other unneeded (in his opinion) data to shrink his .mobi files? We tried adding 142 books to his Kindle PW2 and it was faster but not blazingly faster than a Kobo Aura HD. The mobi and epub versions of the books were downloaded from Gutenberg with the .mobi files loaded into Calibre on his laptop and .epub files loaded into Calibre on my laptop. We attempted to click on Smart Eject in Calibre at the same time and then waited for processing to finish. Both ereaders already had quite a few ebooks added which may be a factor in the time taken to process new ebooks. I did take a second pass through Calibre to add the series info but didn't count that time since the processing time for adding that information is negligible.
The books added were a mix of Jerome K. Jerome, P. G. Wodehouse, Stanley R. Matthews, Victor Appleton (I and II) and O. A. Kline for those who might be interested.