Do you load all of your books at once or only the ones you are reading

[FizzyWater]

I like to have as many as possible, to make it possible to choose books "on the fly". But it does have a tradeoff - it eats battery life (on my Sony 650) to put 1500 books on the memory stick.

[Jcas]

I have a few in my Reading list, then a dozen or so in my TBR list, i delete after i have finished a book.

I also have a few in a reference folder . Probably about 50 all up.

[Richey79]

Originally Posted by Lemurion

I use my device like a portable bookshelf - so of course I keep too many books on it.

Agreed, I have about 300 books on each.

Never know what I'll be in the mood to read. I like the way I can easily skip between what I've been reading recently on the Kindle, although I haven't found a way to switch the indexing to do this on my Sony.

[Doug Huffman]

Current reading only and, when completed, deleted. Saves indexing time and power. The PC and its archive drive are big enough for their job of keeping Big Sis at bay (a la 1984).

[Zyzomys]

I transfer the books to my Kindle using Calibre as I buy them (three to four a month), and delete them from my reader when I am done. My full library is maintained in Calibre.

[Barcey]

I keep all my books on my reader but I have a TBR directory where I keep the next 10 I plan to read. It's two copies of some of the books but storage isn't a problem. It saves me from too much hunting in the directories but I have access to everything.

I alsokeep about 50 books on my iPhone in case my reader breaks (knock on wood).

[bjones6416]

I keep 'em all on my Kindle. (And keep my calibre library backed up on a portable hd, too.)

I have every book in at least one collection, so with my home page set to display "Collections" it is not difficult to find what I want somewhere in my 10 or 12 collections. The main ones, btw, are "Reading Now," "Unread," "Fiction," and "Nonfiction."

[dengar]

Thanks everyone for the replies. As I suspected, the answers were all over the board

I do like the idea of the TBR folder or collection. I can load a few of them and just leave them there until Im ready to read it, and it wont be on my main list to have to always sort through.

[crossi]

I keep everything on my kindle. With over 600 books and climbing searching my archive or my Amazon page to find a particular book whose title I may or may not remember is a pain. The collections on my kindle make them much easier to find. Amazon ought to hire Kovid Goyal to redesign their "Manage My Kindle" page. What they have now is a travesty of an organizational tool. OK if you only have 20 books, terrible if you have thousands.

[Rumpelteazer]

I don't keep everything on my reader. I have all the books on my reader from the series that I read, since I read a lot of series there are many of those, and about a dozen other books on my to-be-read list.

I also have several books in my currently-reading folder such as the complete works of Sherlock Holmes and a couple of other classics of which I regularly read a short story or chapter whenever I feel like it.

[wvcherrybomb]

I'm kind of new so I have less than 100 eBooks. I do keep them all on my Kindle because it never occured to me not to. I do have everything organized into catagories.

I love to lay in bed and have every book I own in my hand. I have always read 2 or 3 books at a time, depending on my mood. Now, with a Kindle, I read as many as a dozen at a time.

Only books I don't like get deleted. I dread the day my Kindle is full.

[Jack Tingle]

I keep a few dozen unread azw, mobi & prc books of various stripes on my K3. Similarly, I keep a good number of htm, epub, pdf, rtf, etc. on my jetBook.

Once I've read a book, for the most part, it goes to the great archive in the sky, since I keep copies on my laptop prior to loading. The only exception is Amazon encrypted azws, for which I depend on the Evil Bezos and his Vile Minions. (Just kidding JB.)

Regards,
Jack Tingle

[Maggie Leung]

I keep nearly all my e-books on iPad and Touch; I have hundreds. I haven't bothered to add a few dozen sideloaded books, which I still have on my Kindle.

Kindle was my primary reader till iPad. Now, my Kindle serves only to hold those sideloaded books, for when I wanna reread 'em again.

[jjansen]

I was really interested in the reader who kept all 3100 books on a Nook. I know that there is no real good reason for it but I would really like to keep about 2500 of my books on my Nook. I just found that the refresh time was much too long whenever I wanted to add or delete some. I don't believe that the processing power is there yet. I have about 200 or 300 books on at the moment and even that takes longer to refresh than I am comfortable with. I know that I don't need more than that but it is easier to load them all on than to figure out which ones to put on and which ones to leave on my computer.

On the show-off side, I really like when some says to me do you have any books by xxxx on your reader and I can say yes rather than, not right now but I do have them on my computer. It doesn't have the same marketing effect when you are promoting ereaders as I am sure we all do...........Jackie

[DuncanWatson]

Originally Posted by jjansen

I was really interested in the reader who kept all 3100 books on a Nook. I know that there is no real good reason for it but I would really like to keep about 2500 of my books on my Nook. I just found that the refresh time was much too long whenever I wanted to add or delete some. I don't believe that the processing power is there yet. I have about 200 or 300 books on at the moment and even that takes longer to refresh than I am comfortable with. I know that I don't need more than that but it is easier to load them all on than to figure out which ones to put on and which ones to leave on my computer.

Take a look at the NOOKColor. The processing power is there with more to spare. Everything is instant with 156 books on the device, even downloading 10 or 15 at once doesn't slow down the interface. I keep over 1500 songs, >150 books, and 3-10 movies on the device depending upon which SD card I have loaded. Swapping cards is fast, done with the device active and content is recognized right after the SD logo flashes on the screen. I have no issues with my NOOKColor speed.