Aura ONE Kobo Aura One owners thread - Page 75

davidfor · 01-31-2017, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by ratinox

If a book in my library is not on my short term to-read list then I'm not going to read it in the foreseeable future. Not having it on my reader is therefore not a limitation.

So, you know what you will be in the mood to read when you finish your current book? I don't maintain a TBR list. If I did, it would have every book I own on it. Except those I found were rubbish when I read them.

My usual method for choosing a book is to open the book list and page through it until I find something I like. Frequently, something in the list will make me think of another book and I'll search for that. Or I might tap the page number and enter a random number and start from that page in the list.

Katsunami · 01-31-2017, 10:05 AM

The one reason why I don't put more than around 1-15 books on an e-reader is because I'm deathly afraid of losing it. I don't really care about the e-reader; that can be easily replaced. It's just a monetary inconvenience. The thing I don't want to happen is my entire library ending up in the wild somewhere.

radius · 01-31-2017, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by davidfor

Now, there is at least one person here who only keeps four or five books on their ereader. That I don't understand. I mean, why would you make you reading choices so limited?

I find that if I have too many books on the reader, I spend way too much time paging through the books to find the *best* book to read at the moment rather than just opening a book and getting to it. With that number I also forget series order and so on.

With fewer books, I also get more of a sense of progress as the number of books on device fluctuates up and down. With a large library, I despair at the size of my to-read list

Finally, by keeping fewer books on device, it means I plug the reader into USB to load more often and I find I get close to enough charge from that to keep going without having to remember to actually recharge my reader.

That said, my preferred number is probably between 20-50 and not as low as 4.

patrik · 01-31-2017, 02:26 PM

I find that it's so much easier to look for the next book with Calibre than on my Kobo. And since it only takes me seconds (ok, say a minute) to connect the reader and transfer the book, I could probably get away with having only one book on the reader.

That said, I have a couple of hundreds on it (almost all non-fiction). I tend to read maybe 4-5 books at a time (mostly non-fiction, usually 1 fiction at a time).

If I travel and won't have access to my library, I usually add a bunch a books just in case.

JSWolf · 01-31-2017, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Pjama

Lol - well, I've tracked down my (hopefully) lovely new reader!

A lovely lady just phoned me back from my local post office right now and she has put it on the shelf so I can pick it up after dropping my kids off at school just after 8 tomorrow morning. So excited! Really hoping it lives up to my expectations, and looking forward to borrowing loads of Overdrive books on it.

I joined the local library last week and signed up to the Houston overdrive which has just tons of great books available.

When I got my H2O from Chapters, it went from Canadian post to USPS (US Post). The tracking number I got from Chapters worked for both posts.

ratinox · 01-31-2017, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by davidfor

So, you know what you will be in the mood to read when you finish your current book?

Yup. If I'm not in the mood to read something on my to-read list then I'm not in a mood to read anything at all. Welcome to that slice of my brane.

davidfor · 01-31-2017, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by radius

I find that if I have too many books on the reader, I spend way too much time paging through the books to find the *best* book to read at the moment rather than just opening a book and getting to it. With that number I also forget series order and so on.

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Originally Posted by ratinox

Yup. If I'm not in the mood to read something on my to-read list then I'm not in a mood to read anything at all. Welcome to that slice of my brane.

Same here. Monday on the train home I started looking for something to read. When I hit about page 40, I admitted to myself I wasn't really in the mood to read, so had a nap for the rest of the way (no matter what the rest of the train thinks, I don't snore). At home when I went looking, I found something immediately. So, I'm not worried about the number, I know I'll find something when I'm ready.

Sweetpea · 02-01-2017, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by patrik

I find that it's so much easier to look for the next book with Calibre than on my Kobo. And since it only takes me seconds (ok, say a minute) to connect the reader and transfer the book, I could probably get away with having only one book on the reader.

That said, I have a couple of hundreds on it (almost all non-fiction). I tend to read maybe 4-5 books at a time (mostly non-fiction, usually 1 fiction at a time).

If I travel and won't have access to my library, I usually add a bunch a books just in case.

I usually read on the road or in bed. And in both places, it won't take me seconds (or even a minute) to connect the reader and transfer the book...

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Originally Posted by ratinox

Yup. If I'm not in the mood to read something on my to-read list then I'm not in a mood to read anything at all. Welcome to that slice of my brane.

Same here. Or it could be I want to read "that" book, which I don't have in my library at the moment. So, in that case I'll head over to internet, buy the book and read that

And if I can't, I'm usually so put down, that I don't want to read anymore.

Gone · 02-01-2017, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Katsunami

The one reason why I don't put more than around 1-15 books on an e-reader is because I'm deathly afraid of losing it. I don't really care about the e-reader; that can be easily replaced. It's just a monetary inconvenience. The thing I don't want to happen is my entire library ending up in the wild somewhere.

All my ebooks are on DropBox, managed by Calibre.

Terisa de morgan · 02-01-2017, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Katsunami

The one reason why I don't put more than around 1-15 books on an e-reader is because I'm deathly afraid of losing it. I don't really care about the e-reader; that can be easily replaced. It's just a monetary inconvenience. The thing I don't want to happen is my entire library ending up in the wild somewhere.

I live in Spain, my ereader library is in English (I think all but one of my 400 books in it), I think that if it ends in the wild, it will be of no use

Sweetpea · 02-02-2017, 05:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

I live in Spain, my ereader library is in English (I think all but one of my 400 books in it), I think that if it ends in the wild, it will be of no use

Hmm, good point (one reason I don't like going to Spain, hardly anybody speaks anything but Spanish and I don't speak a word Spanish)

But I think I'd lose my wallet before I'd lose my reader. I've been known to forget my wallet at home, but never my tablet

Terisa de morgan · 02-02-2017, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Hmm, good point (one reason I don't like going to Spain, hardly anybody speaks anything but Spanish and I don't speak a word Spanish)

Go to Germany, not the big cities, or France, or Italy...

Sweetpea · 02-02-2017, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Go to Germany, not the big cities, or France, or Italy...

France and Italy I don't got to either, for the same reason. German, I can make my self understood with! (So, Italy is fine, actually, as long as you stay in South Tirol)

Small anecdote: ages ago, when I was still young, we went on a Interrail tour through Europe. We first went to Kopenhagen, then Berlin, Vienna, Bern and then back home. On the way from Kopenhagen to Berlin, we wanted to book a night train from Berlin to Vienna (the only night train we've taken that entire trip). So, I went to a counter and tried to order a ticket, in my bestest German. After a few sentences, the person opposite me switched to English... I probably had used a bit too much English inbetween my German

(I always had low grades for English, German and French at highschool, I always mixed up the languages

)

On that same trip, in Kopenhagen, there was an interrail counter (staffed by Danish students, to help interrailers in Kopenhagen) at the train station. We were talking to a helpful person (in English, as my Danish isn't really existing either) when two French guys came along. They started talking in French. The person on the other side made it clear he didn't understand French, only Danish, German and English. Those two French persons didn't understand him and kept on talking to him in French...

Problem is, I can read French (with difficulty), but I can't make myself understood in the language... But Spanish and Italian might as well be Chinese...

Terisa de morgan · 02-02-2017, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Problem is, I can read French (with difficulty), but I can't make myself understood in the language... But Spanish and Italian might as well be Chinese...

Myself? English, more or less... Italian, some difficulties but I can manage... Nothing else.

marioz · 02-02-2017, 07:53 AM

Problem is, I can read French (with difficulty), but I can't make myself understood in the language... But Spanish and Italian might as well be Chinese...

Then you miss the two most musical idioms in the world

02-02-2017, 07:53 AM	#1125
marioz Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2014 Device: Sony 950 Kobo Glo Kobo Aura HD Kobo h2o KA1	Problem is, I can read French (with difficulty), but I can't make myself understood in the language... But Spanish and Italian might as well be Chinese... Then you miss the two most musical idioms in the world Last edited by marioz; 02-02-2017 at 07:56 AM.

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Katsunami Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,111 Karma: 34000001 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: KPW1, KA1	The one reason why I don't put more than around 1-15 books on an e-reader is because I'm deathly afraid of losing it. I don't really care about the e-reader; that can be easily replaced. It's just a monetary inconvenience. The thing I don't want to happen is my entire library ending up in the wild somewhere.

01-31-2017, 02:26 PM	#1114
patrik Guru Posts: 682 Karma: 4568205 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Sweden Device: Kobo Forma	I find that it's so much easier to look for the next book with Calibre than on my Kobo. And since it only takes me seconds (ok, say a minute) to connect the reader and transfer the book, I could probably get away with having only one book on the reader. That said, I have a couple of hundreds on it (almost all non-fiction). I tend to read maybe 4-5 books at a time (mostly non-fiction, usually 1 fiction at a time). If I travel and won't have access to my library, I usually add a bunch a books just in case.