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Old 01-22-2014, 04:34 PM   #2326
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I've already found the loophole in that plan. I bought book one, read it, liked it, scooped up the rest of the series...and it promptly gathers dust in my TBR stack.
As the Nameless One in Planescape: Torment sometimes says:

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(I do have it with computer games, though...)
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I've already found the loophole in that plan. I bought book one, read it, liked it, scooped up the rest of the series...and it promptly gathers dust in my TBR stack.
I've done that too. At least I usually manage to stick to buying just the next one or next two, but there are some series where I'm 1-3 books in and have another 6-7 waiting, just because they were on sale, and one never knows if they'll ever go on sale again...

I don't usually buy the entire series sight unseen though; I might buy the first two books if they're really cheap and I have "a good feeling" about the series, but that's it. For more, I need to have read at least some of it or be familiar with the author.

I'm still on seven books bought and eleven read this month, so I'm doing okay. I've had a few more finger-hovers-over-buy-button moments for random "ooh, this looks potentially interesting" books, but so far I've resisted anything I hadn't already been aware of and curious about before seeing the sale.

With three February releases already pre-ordered, I do have to be careful, though.
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I've done that too. At least I usually manage to stick to buying just the next one or next two, but there are some series where I'm 1-3 books in and have another 6-7 waiting, just because they were on sale, and one never knows if they'll ever go on sale again...

I don't usually buy the entire series sight unseen though; I might buy the first two books if they're really cheap and I have "a good feeling" about the series, but that's it. For more, I need to have read at least some of it or be familiar with the author.
My secondary challenge list this year - 12 books that have been gathering dust on my shelf for at least a year - is all about those series. Setting my three alternates aside, all twelve are books 2-4 of a series...and three of those four series end with book four. (The fourth has a fifth book out now, but I don't own it.)

With the alternates, two of them are books 2 and 3 of a series that I've bought through #6, and the last three are ebooks that I got with Kobo discounts while Big Five books were still eligible. Not regretting that decision...

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(I do have it with computer games, though...)
Oh, don't even get me started on those. I never did make it past the first couple of missions in No One Lives Forever, let alone Contract JACK, Blood, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, or...well, you get the idea. I've pretty much given up buying consoles and PC games, but when I saw the BFG Edition of Doom 3 - which works on Win7 and comes with updated versions of the previous classic games - for $4.99 on DVD, I just couldn't resist.
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Oh, don't even get me started on those.
"I'll read/play it some day."

With a paper book, you can stretch it for a very long time. With an e-book, you probably can too, now that Alf and Calibre make DRM-removal and format conversion trivial.

With computer games... you could be SOL if you don't keep your old computer running your old OS. If it wasn't for GOG.com, that makes old games compatible with new operating systems, I'd have lost quite some Win95/98-era games already. (If not counting virtual machines, obviously.)

Some originals run great on Win7 x64, sometimes with a hack here or a tweak there, but others even refuse to install or start for one of several reasons, where the GOG.com version runs as if it was written for Windows 7.
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So glad I found this thread! I am not feeling so bad about my addiction now. However, I need a new ereader and do not like to archive my books (I reread my books periodically). My library is about 1500- 2000 books. My Touch keeps 'losing' the expansion micro SD card. Can anyone suggest a good large library capable ereader?

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There are discussions about this in other areas of the forum. I can tell you that my Kindle keyboard, Kindle 4, and Nook ST will all slow WAY down once you start approaching 800-900 ebooks. The 1,000 that they claim is just an estimate. All fall short of this number. Tablets don't seem to have these limitations, but I don't really much like using a tablet to read black/white text. They are heavier and harder on the eyes, although perfect for pdf files and anything in color.

There are always going to be technical limitations. Right now, you want a complete library of 2,000 books. In 5 years, they will double the capacity and then you'll want it at 4,000 books. The reality is that you really can archive lots of those books to keep a reasonable number on your device. If not, get a tablet. They are designed for that RIGHT NOW - they just aren't as reader friendly as an ereader.
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I've already found the loophole in that plan. I bought book one, read it, liked it, scooped up the rest of the series...and it promptly gathers dust in my TBR stack.
I'm getting a *little* better about that one--I try to buy only one book in the series at a time, and read it before I buy the next.

My problem is, it's not at all unheard of for me to read three 300+ pages books in a day. It's easy to end up buying 10 or more books a week like that!
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My library is about 1500- 2000 books. My Touch keeps 'losing' the expansion micro SD card. Can anyone suggest a good large library capable ereader?
What do you mean by "losing" the card? FWIW, I've got about 750 books on my Glo's internal card, and I don't have much trouble with it; its behavior is still snappy. All the same, I do back up its database about once a week, when I connect it to my computer to add books to the card. I also practice proper hygiene, deleting books from the Kobo's interface so it can properly update that database, rather than deleting stuff through the PC connection.

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The reality is that you really can archive lots of those books to keep a reasonable number on your device.
I generally archive my full library to two local drives (for redundancy), and keep unread books plus a (relative) few favorites on my device. That way, I can instantly read new material and it's almost no trouble to restore already-read books to the device...even when the outside network's down.

According to Goodreads, I own 681 unread ebooks. I have a few on my rarely-used Kindle, but most of those are on my Glo. I also show 270 finished ebooks, of which less than 100 are on that Glo - namely, the stuff I'm prone to wanting at my fingertip even though I've already read it. (My Tom Holt collection is in that category; I'm prone to evangelizing about his work, and nothing does the trick like being able to pull up one of his books and let someone read the first couple of pages.) I'm trying to knock that number down a bit, which I do by deleting most books from the Glo as I finish reading them.

In theory, if I keep my purchases under control, that number should stay constant or shrink over time. In point of fact, not so much; I'm paying more attention to my Ent cemetery this year, trying to shrink that tangible pile while letting new acquisitions accumulate electronically. After all, electrons and pixels don't take up much space, they're easier to get at, and buying a cheap ecopy of a physical book means I can get rid of the physical copy.
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I'm getting a *little* better about that one--I try to buy only one book in the series at a time, and read it before I buy the next.

My problem is, it's not at all unheard of for me to read three 300+ pages books in a day. It's easy to end up buying 10 or more books a week like that!
I wish I had that kind of time! Presently, I look at the situation in terms of building up a stockpile. If my finances were to suddenly become very tight, such that I couldn't buy any more books for an extended period of time, I'd still be set for entertainment for more than seven years.
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So glad I found this thread! I am not feeling so bad about my addiction now. However, I need a new ereader and do not like to archive my books (I reread my books periodically). My library is about 1500- 2000 books. My Touch keeps 'losing' the expansion micro SD card. Can anyone suggest a good large library capable ereader?
Are you on the latest firmware for the Touch (3.0.1) and power off the device? If so, the problem is that the SD card isn't read when it starts up. Ejecting the card and reinserting it is all that is needed. Or, letting it sleep and never powering off will also solve this. This is a problem that only affects the Touch. The Glo, Aura and Aura HD all see the SD card at start up.

Also, with the latest firmware, that number of books will work well on the internal memory. There have been recent performance improvements that have kept the Touch as a usable device.

But, if you want a new device, I love my Glo. I currently have 1800 books on it. They are split between the main memory and SD card and I don't have any issues. The larger size of the Aura HD works well for a lot of people. The new Aura is popular because of the capacitive touch screen and overall styling.
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I wish I had that kind of time! Presently, I look at the situation in terms of building up a stockpile. If my finances were to suddenly become very tight, such that I couldn't buy any more books for an extended period of time, I'd still be set for entertainment for more than seven years.
That's my excuse, too.

That, and "well, sales/discounts are never guaranteed to happen again, so if I see an interesting book on sale now, I might as well get it now instead of paying five times as much when I decide next year that I want it after all".

It's terrible. I still have lots of unread DTBs at home, too, but the obsessive buying there became heavily restricted as I physically ran out of space. With ebooks... yeah. There's a reason I'm in the addicts' thread and am actually trying hard to curb the habit.

In my defence, it's the only hobby I currently have left, now that I don't watch TV (and have stopped buying DVDs which I'll not watch anyway). I'm so glad I never got into computer games beyond small casual things like Plants vs Zombies or some hidden object games.
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You make me feel better. My TBR would only keep me in books for four years or so....
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I've enjoyed this thread and it has comforted me when I have been feeling guilty Actually, right now I am in the dog house due to two special deals at Amazon UK, one of which I picked up on yesterday in the Mystery and Thrillers thread here, darn darn. Eleven books, 75 (ish) pence each.
I've kind of lost track of what I still have yet to read, but I do munch through the equivalent of two, 300-or-so page books a week.
So comforting to know I'm not alone!
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I've enjoyed this thread and it has comforted me when I have been feeling guilty Actually, right now I am in the dog house due to two special deals at Amazon UK, one of which I picked up on yesterday in the Mystery and Thrillers thread here, darn darn. Eleven books, 75 (ish) pence each.
Welcome to the thread, Pangolin.

I hope that the books you picked up were in series or from authors that you know you like. (Unlike me - I picked up ten in a series from a new-to-me author.)

It's worth trying, even if we slip ocassionally.

And as bad habits go, the ocassional extra ebook purchase isn't very wicked.
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That's my excuse, too.

That, and "well, sales/discounts are never guaranteed to happen again, so if I see an interesting book on sale now, I might as well get it now instead of paying five times as much when I decide next year that I want it after all".

It's terrible. I still have lots of unread DTBs at home, too, but the obsessive buying there became heavily restricted as I physically ran out of space. With ebooks... yeah. There's a reason I'm in the addicts' thread and am actually trying hard to curb the habit.

In my defence, it's the only hobby I currently have left, now that I don't watch TV (and have stopped buying DVDs which I'll not watch anyway). I'm so glad I never got into computer games beyond small casual things like Plants vs Zombies or some hidden object games.
It's also my primary hobby--especially right now, due to health issues. Every other pastime has gone by the wayside; reading is portable and stress relieving, so every "spare" minute ends up with a cup of tea and an open Kindle.

Then again, I've always been a ridiculously heavy reader. I don't do much TV, especially in winter when there's no baseball, don't watch movies, and all my gaming is little stuff on the iPad that doesn't take up much time or money.

My 160 or so book TBR pile is at most, a year's worth of reading in a slow year--IF I ever buckled down to reading only those books. Like that'll ever happen!
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