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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
First world problems, my friend.
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Sure are.
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Are you sure you spend more time organizing your library now than you spent driving to/from the store?
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Back then? Yes. Do you know how much WORK it is to tag all books correctly? Author, title, series, arches (such as in Discworld), genres, pulished dates, finding matching covers for a series, and then fixing the books where necessary? (Fortunately the calibre editor has made that process MUCH faster.)
Now I only spend an hour or so once every while if I buy something. Normally I wait, and wait and wait, and when a sale comes up, I pounce and get 10 books at a time.
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And when it's time to move, that My Passport drive that's about the size of a pack of cards will be much easier to pack than bookshelf after bookshelf.
For me, e-books with Calibre are SO much easier (and cheaper) than paper books. And once Calibre is set up, it really doesn't take much time at all.
I dunno. Maybe I'm less diligent. Maybe it's because (for now) I buy all my books from a single source.
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It's cheaper indeed, and it has many advantages, *AFTER* you knock your library into shape.