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Originally Posted by Isamilis
Why do you need to bring thousand books everywhere, while you can only read few books per day? I am not againts this idea, but it sounds weird for people who have cloud and internet access almost everywhere.
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I'm not a Kindle owner but I carry thousands of books on my Kobo ereaders -- those external uSD cards are handy -- and basically, it gives me the option to select any book I own and feel like reading at that point in time. If nothing else, I'll open a random page in the library listing and select a book from that page.
There is no weight penalty to carrying more books and while the processing (indexing for a Kindle owner) does take some time when you initially setup the device, I haven't noticed any performance penalties after that step is done. If nothing else, there are still areas where WiFi or cellular service is not readily available to connect to your books in the cloud so when I have a 15 minute break, I don't want to spend the majority of that time trying to download a book.
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Originally Posted by Isamilis
I might be wrong, but my experience so far, the fewer books I loaded in my kindle the bigger chance ideas in that book inspire me.
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An interesting theory but it doesn't work that way for me. The more books, the better chance I will find one I currently feel like reading. Not to mention that I have quite a few work related books (Microsoft, Cisco, VMWare, etc.) in pdf or epub format. While I prefer to read the pdfs on a larger screen, in case of need, my ereader does work.