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Old 02-06-2020, 03:16 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by luoto View Post
Thanks for the other comments folks, that are noted. The books vary in size from maybe a megabyte for an ePub or less to say 20-50 megabytes if a PDF, taking about 680Gb of disk space. Moving to SSD for that drive is not presently a viable option as it is a much larger HDD with other items on that would need rehoming and already the drive bays are maxed out space-wise.
Yes, if you have a lot of PDFs, then the storage space will be a problem. My library is less than 50 GB, but I have very few PDFs.

Your only option would seem to be splitting the library. Put the books you rarely need on an external drive and the rest on a SSD.
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