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Originally Posted by Tarana
I have taken a drastic step for me. I discontinued my subscription with Kindle Daily and Ereader IQ daily. This was tough, but honestly, I have not read 99% of those books and my TBR of purchased books and audiobooks is huge. Next week, I will again make an effort to delete off free books off my cloud and store in Calibre. Can't even find a book to read when there are 2000 archived ones (and most of them never to be read) and want to focus on what I've bought.
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Good for you! I know i was better off when I stopped checking the Daily Deals at Amazon.
Fully knowing that it's a process and you can only do what you're ready to do, I'm going to make a suggestion anyway. Don't move all your freebies to Calibre. You're just postponing the issue to another time and while you're dealing with it now, you could take advantage of the effort to get the freebies into usable shape. Perhaps, as you go through your archived books, madly clicking delete, you could have a rule of thumb of only transferring 10%? Pick the cream of the freebies, the ones you might actually read, and let the rest go. They're not worth the continued emotional investment and the time it will take to get them into useful shape later. You've already said you can never find a book to read among them! That being the case, why not cherry pick them now and maybe you could.
I can't say anything with certainty, but there will always be deals and there's always the library. Make a clean sweep. You'd feel so light, without the weight of all those megabytes.
So much easier to manage others' libraries....
