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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Some Readers such as Sony Readers are a pain in the ass to try to keep a lot of EBook on because of the way it scans the eBooks.
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I haven't had a Sony reader in a long time so a non-issue for me.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Kobos and Kindles are not good if you load too many eBooks at once because ball it takes is one eBook with errors to cause a problem.
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For Kobo and epub format ebooks, use epubcheck and FlightCrew before ever sending the ebook to your Kobo. It was a bit surprising how many commercial epubs used to generate a ream of errors with either but that's become a lot less common. If nothing else, Sigil running both of those as plug-ins makes cleaning up a lot easier.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Why keep already read eBooks on your Reader? There's really no need. just create a yes/no column in your Calibre library and you can mark what you've already read. And you can also keep track with Goodreads.
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I read a lot of books that come in series and very often I go back and verify my memory against earlier books. Not to mention that when a new book in a series comes out, I will often binge read the previous books if the series is short enough to allow (say less than 10 books in the series).
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I know for some it's done to be able to say you have your entire eBook library with you. For others it's so you can read what you want because it's already loaded. And some don't want to have to connect to the computer just to load the next eBook to read.
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And for some, just because we can.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
For those who do have a rather large amount of eBooks on your Reader, what would you do if you had a Reader such as a Sony where it's very impractical to have all your eBooks with you?
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Why this concern about Sony? They've been out of the ereader business for years. I'm more concerned with my Kobo Aura One where the lack of expandable storage has caused me to keep most of my cookbook collection on my H2O. In my collection, the average size of a cookbook with illustrations is 62MB so about 15GB needed.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
For reading on my iPhone/iPad, I keep some eBooks on Dropbox and get them as I need/want. That keeps the internal storage for other things.
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I keep very few non-work related ebooks on my tablet collection and if I do want one, I can access it easily enough if a WiFi access point is within connection range. Most of the work related ebooks are manuals in PDF format so the tablet is a better device for reading them.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
How do you handle a Reader that doesn't have a memory card slot and only so much memory when you get full and have to remove eBooks to add new ones or you just cannot fit your entire library?
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At this point, I have about 3000 ebooks on my KA1 which are duplicated in a separate Calibre library. I do tend to cause myself more issues requiring a factory reset so I find this the easier way to restore the library -- doesn't everyone want their Kobo to act as a frontend to a Raspberry PI weather station?
I don't use collections -- search works quite well for me.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It's not going to make you look cool or more interesting if the only reason you have your entire library with you is to show off that you did it.
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Huh? I can't remember having told any of my friends in real life about the number of ebooks I've had on an ereader. Most would not be interested and even more would not care.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I like the idea of a limited amount of books with me so it helps me read older books that might be overlooked.
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How do those older books get on your ereader to be overlooked?
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The only time I leave books I've read on my Reader is if I might want to refer back to it or to correct errors when I'm at the computer.
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Correcting errors, yes. That's about the only use I make of bookmarks and annotations. That tends to happen rather rapidly once I've finished the book though at times I have gone into an error correcting frenzy in the midst of reading a book. The last time I did that was an author who had issues with homophones such as rein/reign, sale/sail, weather/whether and your/you're. After some correspondence, it turned out that arthritis was an issue so the book had been dictated to the computer.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Which current Readers are lousy for handling a large amount of eBooks?
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In your opinion, it would appear the answer is Sony.