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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Sure are.
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.
It's cheaper indeed, and it has many advantages, *AFTER* you knock your library into shape.
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I just bought and categorized 4 ebooks from Amazon. It took me 5 minutes to add to Calibre. It took another 2 or 3 minutes per book to update the metadata. Two of the books were boxed sets, so I spent 15 minutes each splitting them into individual books. So...about an hour for what actually ends up being 9 books.
A trip to the bookstore would take that long just to get there and back, not to mention the time spent in the store, and the extra money for gas, and the fact that the books themselves would have cost more.
Ebooks are *much* easier.
Shari