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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
At the moment, I just want to be able to read the books/documents I already have e and whittle down my "to-read" list.
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I certainly understand that. For me, however, three things happened when I moved my books into Calibre.
First, my "to-read" list improved. I had far better indexed and sorted access to my books, so I could find books I wanted to read more than other books at the top of my list. I also found lots of hidden gems in my collection.
Second, I gained all-the-time online access to my books through the content server, so it was easier to quickly grab a book of interest to me. I'd be reading naval fiction and then grab one of my Google Book conversions from 1805 where I could read about the proper installation of a "cross cat-harpin" on a square-rigger.
Finally, There was a class of reading material - magazines, newspapers and the like that are online, but that I had not been able to read on my e-reader. These items change daily or weekly, so they aren't really on the same "to-read"list as novels. Once Calibre converted these items to ebooks, they became much more accessible to me than my paper copies or the web version that needed to be read through a web browser.