I loaded 6300 books on to kindle ! result was ...

[CazMar]

Originally Posted by Kevin2960

" Reading " Now there's an idea ... Anyone else thought of reading all these books they are collecting ...

Sounds a really WEIRD idea

I suspect there are a lot of books on ereaders that will never be read - unless the owner is trapped on a small island (with a power supply) for about 6 months!

[RainingLemur]

Originally Posted by CazMar

I suspect there are a lot of books on ereaders that will never be read - unless the owner is trapped on a small island (with a power supply) for about 6 months!

If they're on Gilligans Island, they could probably get by with a cool coconut powered generator.

And... Mary-Ann. Mmmmm...

[Torwan]

That reminds me of discussions 10 years ago:

Collector-dude: "I'm downloading so much I have to burn a couple of gigabyte per day in order to not get my harddrive filled up." (remember 10 years ago - slower internet connections, no DVD burners)
Me: "Several gigs per day? What are you downloading?"
Collector-dude: "Oh, you know, music, films, the usual."
Me: "When are you ever going to watch all that? Or listen to it?"
Collector-dude: "I don't. About 95% I've never seen and probably never will."
Me: "Then why bother downloading it? What's the point?"
Collector-dude: "I own it, man!!!"

Didn't understand it back then, don't understand it now. I have like 20, 25 ebooks on my Kindle and I've completed 1 of them so far...

[Koko]

4500 books on one kindle! Wow. It’s interesting to read what kind of strategies you used to make it work.

[vugtitan]

Originally Posted by RainingLemur

God, my inner Dragonball nerd is going insane right now....

Spoiler:

Nappa: “Vegeta, what does the scouter say about his power?”
Vegeta: “It’s over NINE THOUSAAAAAAAND!”

Yeah, I think I'm up to a couple hundred files on my Kindle. But, a LOT of them are short reads or comic books that have a few pages... So, it's not TOO terrible. Why anyone would want to load THAT many (thousands) books on theirs...is beyond me.

When i go to a library i don't want to be brushed into one isle and shown 30 books.

i want the freedom of the whole library without restriction to browse as i please and read whatever i fancy depending on my dy/dx = mood.

hence the need to carry a big as possible library.i don't want to mess with usb and plugging in wires to a pc.it is too much hassle.i might have forgotten.my dy/dx = mood might have changed...


i want it here and i want it now just like in that trance song.

we live in a instant gratification society.

i want it.i want it now.i must have it now.instantly.

[DiapDealer]

Lot's of "i"s there, vugitan... just sayin'.

[jer989]

Maybe there is something to be said for having more in your 'library' than you could ever possibly read....

Umberto Eco’s Anti-Library

[Kevin2960]

Originally Posted by CazMar

I suspect there are a lot of books on ereaders that will never be read - unless the owner is trapped on a small island (with a power supply) for about 6 months!

Sounds like Heaven ... Can I book a 5 year stay on said island?

[vugtitan]

Originally Posted by Koko

4500 books on one kindle! Wow. It’s interesting to read what kind of strategies you used to make it work.

yes.

another strategy i one in which all 6300 books would bemerged,the mobi files merged and a have a table of contents to at the start which would lead you to the title you wish to read.

thus you would have a gigantic single book of 2gigs in size with a table of tents or of collections table allowing you directaccess anywook.

i did look for such software and even used tested the idea using pdf,txt,html,rtf,etc merge software which worked in merging but failed to create TOC when i used calibre.

The idea works and you can have gigantic sized books but no table of contents which means you must it is tedious to access any particular book.


maybe somebody here knows how to get calibre to create
a collections table in the giga book.

and then TOC within the collection table for each book.


you could do it manually but that would take forever....

maybe some kind of bat files or software or calibre hack??

[kacir]

Originally Posted by vugtitan

another strategy i one in which all 6300 books would bemerged,the mobi files merged and a have a table of contents to at the start which would lead you to the title you wish to read.

If you really want to have many, many thousands of books on a single reader and you value your time more than 5 dollars per hour, please consider purchase of an e-book reader that supports directories.

If you insert 32GB card into PocketBook reader (as an example), you can have hundred thousand books on a reader. And PocketBook supports the vast majority of commonly used formats, so you won't have to convert books.
If that is not enough, you can carry several such cards.

[emalvick]

Originally Posted by kacir

No. The secret is to use other e-book reading device that handles lots of books more reasonably.
For example PocketBook, Hanlin or Sony with custom firmware or others that directly support folders/directories.

I can load well over ten thousand books on my reader in nice hierarchical directories and I do not have to worry about tricks like disabling indexing or manually creating collections. And the device will boot and work as quickly as when there is only 5 books on it. On my old PocketBook 360 I can even set library view to a mode that displays 51 books/directories per page. Oh ... and it supports most of the e-book formats, including .doc and .docx without conversion.

The question becomes can you read 10,000 books. Until someone can do that, I don't see a need to have a reader to hold that many books.

Heck, I'm such a finicky reader, by time I got through 3,000, I'd probably want to delete the rest because I'm tired of reading that genre or type of book .

I also suspect my e-reader will die before I do anyway.

[vugtitan]

Originally Posted by emalvick

The question becomes can you read 10,000 books. Until someone can do that, I don't see a need to have a reader to hold that many books.

Heck, I'm such a finicky reader, by time I got through 3,000, I'd probably want to delete the rest because I'm tired of reading that genre or type of book .

I also suspect my e-reader will die before I do anyway.

the point to having 10000 books is not about reading them all but having a wide choice as explained above.

in any case the readers you mentioned you mentioned CUSTOM SOFTWARE.

does that mean you have to get it specially made?

also does pocketbook,hamlin,etc support mobi files.

reason i ask is i have converted thousands of books to mobi with heavy/bold font and so i do not want to have to do it all over again in case i got one of the readers you mentioned....

[kacir]

Originally Posted by emalvick

The question becomes can you read 10,000 books. Until someone can do that, I don't see a need to have a reader to hold that many books.

Some people load things like manuals on their readers or tablets. Or other reference material.
I personally would *LOVE* to have a kind of local mirror (regularly updated of course ;-) )of Wikipedia in my pocket. A few years ago there was a device available, with primitive grey LCD, text-only display with Wikipedia on it. Last tile I looked you could even download snapshot of the entire English (and I suppose other languages / sections as well) Wikipedia database - text only - as series of archives.

I would also appreciate an off-line database of electronic parts, such as integrated circuits, discrete semiconductors, capacitors, resistors, ... complete with datasheets and reference designs.
People have all kinds of "libraries" of materials, and it isn't always fiction or even what you would recognise as an e-book.

You can only read one fiction book at one single moment, but some people like to have choice of what to read next. Like one poster in one of previous posts said if you went to library and they only let you access one small shelf of books saying "You can't possibly read all 50 thousands of books we have here, so why do you want to see all the books?" you would be annoyed.


There is another point of view.
Limited number of books you can actually load on Kindle is an artificial limitation. Amazon is trying to motivate you to have only a few books available on the device at the time, and they want you to purchase content from them as you go. Some people, myself included, are very annoyed when we come across such artificial limitation, and we want to hack the system as a matter of principle. Not because we *really* need 50000 books on the device, but because we do not like to be told what we can do with our devices.

[kacir]

Originally Posted by vugtitan

also does pocketbook,hamlin,etc support mobi files.

Official list of supported formats for PocketBook is:
FB2, FB2.ZIP, TXT, TXT.ZIP, PDF, PDF (ADOBE DRM), DJVU, DJV, IW44, IW4, RTF, RTF.ZIP, HTML, PRC, MOBI, CHM, EPUB, EPUB (ADOBE DRM), DOC, DOCX, TCR, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF

In reality the list is even longer.

[DiapDealer]

the point to having 10000 books is not about reading them all but having a wide choice as explained above.

No it's not. I'm not exactly sure what it IS about, but "having a wide choice" doesn't even begin to explain why someone would want to pack 10,000 books on one eReader. Not even close.

I've known where Mount Everest is for over 40 years, but not once have I considered packing some climbing gear and hot-footing it to Nepal. So I'm not buying any "'Cause it's there" rationales either.

I suspect it's mostly the novelty of being able to claim you're holding the equivalent of a public library in the palm of your hand. I get that.

Put as many books as you want on it—it's yours... just don't pretend there's a rational, reasonable explanation for why you're taking it to this extreme.