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Originally Posted by shalym
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
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It depends on what you call easier.
You have to have quite a bit of non-standard knowledge to be able to do what we're doing here. I'm not even talking about having the DeDRM tools installed, and the required knowledge and discipline to backup the library.
Also, you're jackassing around on a computer for an hour instead of going out and actually getting some books. In the past, I liked going into town to get books and other stuff, because I *could actually get what I wanted*, or order it and have it delivered in the store within a few days.
Nowadays, no-one ever has anything I want in stock, and bookstores tend to be *extremely* expensive. A paperback of a recently released novel can easily cost €20 or €25...
I love paper books, CD's, boxed games.... but there are just too many disadvantages compared to digital content to keep going that route. All disadvantages of digital content can be circumvented, but it requires knowledge and work.