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Originally Posted by Quoth
Yes, and typical novels, not epic fantasy or War and Peace etc.
I've loads of documents I might never read. Maybe around 10,000 pdfs of service information, maybe much more, almost 2000 in one source. I'm unlikely to access even another 10, but who knows which 10. Then there are PDF datasheets. Gradually accumulated over 30 years and in some cases via DVD or CD purchase.
But none of that is in Calibre because it's organized by directories and lacks metadata. Adding it to Calibre in a sensible fashion would take years.
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So maybe 40 or 50 thousand in mine are fun reading. Most of the rest are reference like referenced above. I moved it all into calibre rather than in directories like you mention. A lot of it is roughly organized with tags and metadata into virtual libraries. The rest is the wild west.. however I make sure title and author are correct and have found that it's not hard with calibre's search abilities to find relevant stuff.
Part of my mentality is pack rat and information junkie. Hopefully I can pass this down to my children and theirs in turn. I don't consider the planet spanning access to data and knowledge we have today to be something we can depend on tomorrow. Being in IT... I have been noticing for the last 15 to 20 years that the internet is becoming more and more curated and shaped. I think between political goals and the power of new AI systems that within another 10 to 15 years our access to real data and information will be cut in half if not more, or at the least made difficult and monitored, not that it isn't now.
I used to be in awe of the public library.. all that information just waiting to be discovered. In a sense or maybe in reality I now have my own library that dwarfs the public one from my childhood.
Many books in it are ones that have been out of print that I have in my private physical library and have scanned into pdf form.
Though I don't buy as many physical books anymore and almost never new ones. I still buy many reference books on dozens of topics all the time for my children, wife and myself as we move from one interest to another. Cooking, Art of a dozen fields, howto, animals, farming, gardening, medicine, music across time and instruments, languages, and much much more.
One of my biggest disappointments in my self is my seeming inability to turn much of my accumulated knowledge into applied power in my life. Though I guess in some ways I have in that I very rarely ever pay anyone fix or do stuff for me as I can do just about anything needed to a jack of all trades master of none standard.
No accounting for obsession
