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Old 01-04-2016, 01:24 PM   #46
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thanks for all the replies guys its interesting seeing how everyone handles their readers
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Old 01-04-2016, 05:53 PM   #47
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I'm not a reader but I do manage my wife's eBooks. I use Calibre to keep all books. My wife does not like to have more then 3-6 books on her reader at a time.
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Old 01-04-2016, 06:00 PM   #48
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I have about 100 books and magazines on my voyage at this time. I am normally switching between between 3 - 5 books/magazines at any one time. I will load the entire series of books that I am reading when there is a series. And I am always got tech books, bibles, and devotionals that I am reading.
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Old 01-05-2016, 05:47 AM   #49
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Keep them on my ereader. I know I can download them again, but what happens if there is a zombie apocalypse and the cloud goes down?! One must have good reading material until the end.
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Old 01-05-2016, 07:26 AM   #50
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Keep them on my ereader. I know I can download them again, but what happens if there is a zombie apocalypse and the cloud goes down?! One must have good reading material until the end.
I hope that you keep a local backup as well as keeping them on your reader. Drives can and do fail.
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Old 01-05-2016, 11:38 AM   #51
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Keep them on my ereader. I know I can download them again, but what happens if there is a zombie apocalypse and the cloud goes down?! One must have good reading material until the end.
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I hope that you keep a local backup as well as keeping them on your reader. Drives can and do fail.
Few months back, I lost about 5000+ books after my laptop HDD failed. Fortunately, I had backed up my library on the cloud. After that, I copied all to my reader too, and now I do not delete any book (unless a real bad one!) even after reading them. Although it becomes a tedious job to select your next 'to be read' book on a jumbled reader, but it is better than becoming 'bookless' at times.
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Old 01-05-2016, 03:21 PM   #52
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For easy access and backup I store all my books on my android tablet as well as in Calibre. It's my regular reader for image heavy books and PDFs and my reference reader for quickly looking up something in a book as Calibre Companion does a great job of keeping my books unjumbled.

With my standard reader I delete after marking the book as read on Calibre or CC (for both storage and organizational reasons).
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Old 01-05-2016, 03:45 PM   #53
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Remove from device and download from that nebulous cloud if I want to re-read.

And mark Read in Calibre.
I'm trying to figure out how to do that in Calibre. Can you tell me how to do that please?

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Old 01-05-2016, 04:24 PM   #54
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There's an example in the following blog post

http://blog.calibre-ebook.com/2011/1...m-columns.html

as to how to set up a Yes/No 'Read' column

You might want to post in the Calibre forum if you need additional help.
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Old 01-05-2016, 04:49 PM   #55
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I have all my books in calibre and I check them off as I read them, maybe I will reread them some day.
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Old 01-05-2016, 07:58 PM   #56
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You have not answered the question that was asked. The OP did not ask "what do you do when you've finished a book", but "what do you do with the book that you've finished".
I purchase about 95% of my books from Kobo, those I mark as finished and leave on my reader. Anything from another vendor, I delete.
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Old 01-06-2016, 06:00 PM   #57
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I manage all my books with Calibre and just load batches of books that I think I might want to read in the near future onto my Kindle - probably about 40 books or so on the reader at any given time, so I have a fair few to choose from.

I only have one particular Collection on the reader and that is named Read. Once a book is finished I move it to that collection. I rarely delete books.

I do have a Read custom column in Calibre but I can forget to update that so I can refer to my Read Collection on the reader to tidy things up.

Before I began using the Goodreads reading challenge (I only started that for 2015) my Read Collection was the only reliable way for me to assess my reading progress.
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Old 01-06-2016, 11:29 PM   #58
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I only have one particular Collection on the reader and that is named Read. Once a book is finished I move it to that collection.
Similar. Although I have Read 2014, Read 2015 and Read 2016 on mine.
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Old 01-07-2016, 04:45 PM   #59
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Similar. Although I have Read 2014, Read 2015 and Read 2016 on mine.
Oh, I like that idea, thank you!
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Old 01-10-2016, 09:47 AM   #60
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All my books are in my calibre database. I just keep the next hundred or so I'm thinking of reading on my ereader, and delete them from there when I've read them.

Anyone with more than a couple of dozen ebooks should use calibre.
Agree; I do the same, but I only have 10 books on the reader, in addition to what I'm reading now.

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Similar. Although I have Read 2014, Read 2015 and Read 2016 on mine.
I have that in Calibre. A book can be in two or more years
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