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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
I keep my e-library on my reader. Around 3500 book at the latest count. My music player has around 6000 tracks.
First, a side comment. There is no reason why one could not keep a large library on a e-reader. It's a matter of hardware and firmware design. My old Hanlin V3 had no problems up to the limit of a straight SD (2 GB) chip. Simple folder nesting works fine. However, companyies wanting to keep their customers inside a "walled garden" deliberately block their hardware/firmware to make it harder to do so.
Personally I like to have my entire digital world in my "go" bag. If I get the wild hare to go to some strange place, grab the "go" bag and boogie! (or there is a fire, grab the go bag on the way out.)
I don't believe in using the "cloud". it's none of the marketer's business to watch what I read or listen to.
But I'm a paranoid old geezer. . .
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You aren't paranoid. There was an article in the WSJ last week talking about how Facebook bought one of the big free VPN companies so they could track what apps people use on their smart phones. It's kind of amazing how much information these companies keep track of. It's all perfectly legal since it's all buried in the user agreement somewhere, but I'm sure that most people who use VPN's to mask their browsing are not aware that they are being tracked like that.