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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I spend a lot less time managing my eBooks than I did managing my dead tree library. That I had to manually keep in order by category and author's name so I could find it again.
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I never did manage my dead tree books. They went on shelves, and then from shelves to boxes. no order, no rhyme or reason.
My ebook management was rather obsessive for a long time. Besides insuring that I had a DRM-free backup, I convinced myself that I could only read the books if they were formatted just so. With precise indents and line-heights and margins, and whatnot. Once I cured myself of that misconception, I stopped worrying about them altogether. Read 'em and move on. Only the most egregious of formatting issues will bother me enough to stop and "fix" these days.
And as for backing up ... I don't re-read that much. So in several years if there's something I'm ready to re-read and my retail DRMed copy will no longer work, there's always the library (e or p). And if worse comes to worse, I don't really mind rebuying favorite works from favorite authors if I absolutely have to. I repurchased all kinds of paper books that I lent out out to the wrong people, or just plain wore out over the years. *shrug*