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Originally Posted by rem736
thanks all. the consensus seems to be to gather all my purchases into a single location and organized by something such as calibre.
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That seems to be the best option especially since you seem to be purchasing from multiple places, not just 2. For myself, I can often remember whether I purchased from Smashwords or B&N or Kobo or Amazon or a handful of other smaller online sellers, but not always. And to have to check each place every time I want to buy another book would drive me nuts pretty quickly.
Using the "show all" option on one page is doable, and then set up your browser to search as you type to find things quickly even if there should be several thousand books. You don't even have to be bothered to bring up a search box, but I'm not sure all book sellers have that display option.
But ebooks are small in size, it really wouldn't take much room to store all your purchases on your hard drive with Calibre, and they'll be safe forever even if individual sellers go out of business and you can instanly search in one location for the book.