Paperwhite memory woes

[xendula]

Originally Posted by fauxpas

It's fair to prefer it that way, but I assume that for the vast majority of users, 2GB + Cloud will be enough.

Agreed. It is for me, because I only keep the currently reading and the TBR very very soon pile on my Kindle - no more than maybe 15 books. My first Kindle was chock full and I never found anything I was looking for, so now I just move to the reader what I really, really, REALLY should read next.
I rely very heavily on the cloud, epecially now that I have the PW.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by xendula

Agreed. It is for me, because I only keep the currently reading and the TBR very very soon pile on my Kindle - no more than maybe 15 books. My first Kindle was chock full and I never found anything I was looking for, so now I just move to the reader what I really, really, REALLY should read next.
I rely very heavily on the cloud, epecially now that I have the PW.

That is pretty much what I do, except I like to keep all my TBR on board (about 50, plus another virtual 100 which I have yet to move off of my Kindle Touch). I keep it in Recent order and rarely have to leave the first page of Home screen. Once I read it, it goes back to the cloud, and something else comes to page 1. As it is I still have 1.1 GB free.

When I got my PW, I stopped downloading samples, which just clutter things up, and it is more stuff to deal with when switching to another Kindle. I realized that I almost never read them, and even when I did, I would rarely buy them right away. Now I use Wish List instead (added one for KOLL prospects as well), which doesn't take up any space and is still pretty convenient to browse (on a Kindle or a computer browser) when I'm ready to buy something.

But even with 100-200 items I don't have any trouble finding stuff, and I don't use collections. Search is pretty fast by typing initial letters of author or title.

[xendula]

Originally Posted by tomsem

Search is pretty fast by typing initial letters of author or title.

When I got my first kindle and discovered ereaderiq.com, I turned into somewhat of an ebook hoarder, so I would not even know what to search for!! I'd need to browse, let a cover interest me, and still go back to the site and read the description and some reviews to see if a book even interests me right that moment. I wish kindle books had at least a synopsis in the front.

Now, I only download to the cloud, and only send to my kindle what I really really need to read next. My library books obviously get sent to my PW, and I only send samples when I want to read them right away, then delete them.

I wish Manage your Kindle would not be so atrocious. Can't they add check boxes so you can delete more than a book at a time? I have to delete 300 classics from my library and I am going insane doing it!! And how about giving us tags. Ugh.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by xendula

I wish Manage your Kindle would not be so atrocious. Can't they add check boxes so you can delete more than a book at a time? I have to delete 300 classics from my library and I am going insane doing it!! And how about giving us tags. Ugh.

I don't use it. I use Calibre.