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Originally Posted by sjfan
It's not that you need them all, it's that you don't know which ones you need. It's really nice to have all the journals you read with you, so that when a reference to, say, the Jan 10 1997 issue comes up you can read it. Or when some other book references The Son Also Rises you can pull it up and read it, even if you're out of Internet range.
Storage is super cheap these days, to the point where we can carry lots of information with us without being at the whim of third party cloud providers. Using it isn't weird; jumping through a ton of hoops because you can't put a $10 SD card in your device is weird.
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There are also many cheap & portable wi-fi storage solutions now, that can be used for transferring books, audio books, videos etc. to tablets and e-readers like some 30-50 $ wi-fi 2.5in HDD enclosure, 10-50 $ wi-fi SD card readers
https://www.amazon.co.uk/PQI-A100-Dr.../dp/B00B5XC1M6
or 30-100 $ wireless media drives like:
https://www.computershopper.com/stor...wireless-stick
https://www.computershopper.com/stor...product-review
I use Calibre only for undrm-ing, not book management itself, because in my case I have about 8 000 pdf/djvu/epub books at about 50 GB that are numbered 1 - 8 000 and listed in pdf with nine book-covers per pdf page (or without those pictures), with book metadata listed at the end of the pdf (name, author, topic ...), so, I can browse/search that pdf i.e. my book collection, in any tablet or ereader to quickly find the book number and transfer it to tablet/ereader thereafter.
Annotated books could also easily be renamed 1a, 1a1, 1a2 etc. for the latest versions.
e.g. my Kindle DX doesn't even have wi-fi, but if I connect it over usb cable to my wi-fi hdd enclosure as I would any usb memory stick, I can then also wirelessly transfer books to and from it using my ipad (using enclosure's iOS app) as I would wirelessly transfer books from wi-fi hdd to iPad or any Android tablet/phone.