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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Awesome finds also. Thanks.
I would like to get advice from you all about a matter. Between what you and ATDrake have come up with, there are a large number of books that I'm thinking about downloading. I'm not actually wanting to start reading or referencing any of them right away. I want to download them and add them to my library because of concern that they may not be available on the Internet in the future, for some reason, if I should go searching for them. What do you all think? Is this a legitimate concern? It is a little bit of hassle to download, rename, etc. all of these books. It would be nice to avoid all of that and just depend on them being on the Internet when I'm ready to read or reference them.
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Free digital stuff (eBooks/music/videos) gets taken down
all the time. I've learned this the hard way over the years. (There's been a couple of webcomics I enjoyed that the website no longer even exists, the domain expired and the comics are lost to the world, for example.) So if you think you might want it in the future,
grab it now. You don't really have to go through and add it all into Calibre immediately. Just save it all into a folder for sorting in the future and go through it as you have time and add it gradually.
I do this with everything now. I don't count on even Amazon keeping my eBooks available for the long term. And I have my Calibre library backed up in the cloud as well as locally.