Complete Library Why?

[Krazykiwi]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Sorry, not true. Kobo and Goodreads user. And Amazon doesn't know what I'm reading (more than others) ans my Goodreads account and Amazon account are not linked. So, yes, at everybody his or her own, but no need of saying wrong things,

Heh. To use GR you don't even need an e-reader. You can just keep track of the (paper) books you get at the library, if you want.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Krazykiwi

Heh. To use GR you don't even need an e-reader. You can just keep track of the (paper) books you get at the library, if you want.

Very true, I know many dead tree readers who use Goodreads.

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[tomsem]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I've wondered about that. The phrase "Up to 5 'users', 1TB each" makes me wonder: Would a single user receive 5TB of space?

You could create 5 different Outlook accounts for yourself, and have a TB for each. It's intended for 'family', but it could be anybody you want to 'share' with. The person paying for the subscription is the only one in control and is the one who doles out Office licenses. You also get one Skype (pro?) subscription.

Storage used to be 'unlimited' but you can imagine how that was abused. At least with ISP uploading is very slow, it would take weeks to even fill up 1TB. Cannot say it is slower than DropBox or Google Drive, as I never had occasion to upload 10GB video files with them. My work laptop has a backup app for user folders and even that took a couple of days to sync about 20GB that I had at the time. I imagine that the bottleneck is actually the service and not the network bandwidth.

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why is it that a lot of people feel the need to have their complete collection of eBooks on their Reader? It just seems a bit unwieldy to me. I have somewhere around 100 eBooks on my H2O and if I find I want to read something that's not on there, I'll add it when I'm next at my computer.

I don't have my computer handy when I'm in bed finishing a book. I'd have a choice of not reading anymore or reading I book I don't want.
I don't have my computer handy when I'm on holiday.
I don't have my computer handy when I'm waiting for my ride home.

Need I continue?

I sometimes switch books in the middle of a book and I like all my books at hand when I do.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by tomsem

You could create 5 different Outlook accounts for yourself, and have a TB for each.

Yeah, but that's the 'jumping through hoops' I mentioned.

At some point, when online storage becomes cheap enough, I like they idea of backing up all my files to a cloud service. Not to replace my external hard drives. But to have a third option. I'll just wait for it to become more practical.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

At some point, when online storage becomes cheap enough, I like they idea of backing up all my files to a cloud service. Not to replace my external hard drives. But to have a third option. I'll just wait for it to become more practical.

If you have an ADSL Internet service, as I do, downloading is fast, but uploading is very slow indeed. That makes using Cloud backups impractical for large amounts of data.

[radius]

Originally Posted by crossi

I've got ~1200 books on my ereader. It's not a pain to browse because it's organized into only 12 pages of authors plus 1 page of not yet categorized. 13 pages is not a lot to page through.

Ah that's interesting. For genre books where I am familiar with the authors and/or have many books by them this system would work for me, but it breaks down at non-fiction. For a lot of non-fiction, I only ever read a single work by that author and often have no idea what they wrote; I only really connected to the title or cover.

[ekbell]

Originally Posted by radius

Ah that's interesting. For genre books where I am familiar with the authors and/or have many books by them this system would work for me, but it breaks down at non-fiction. For a lot of non-fiction, I only ever read a single work by that author and often have no idea what they wrote; I only really connected to the title or cover.

I primarily organize my books by subject and/or genre. Back before it became simple to search for/sort by author name, I'd have author folders inside my genre/subject folders. These days I take full advantage of searches, tagging and the ability of most readers to add a book to multiple groupings.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by HarryT

If you have an ADSL Internet service, as I do, downloading is fast, but uploading is very slow indeed. That makes using Cloud backups impractical for large amounts of data.

It did take me a while to sync my 8gig library with Google Drive (using wi-fi). But once it's done, I'm glad it is there.

I have cable internet and a desktop downstairs that I only use every couple of days. I do wonder how long it would take to back up, say, 3TB of data.

Practicality may not be there yet for my much larger set of data, but I think online back-up is the future and will become easier to back up larger amounts. I'll always keep offline copies too, of course.

[crossi]

Originally Posted by ekbell

I primarily organize my books by subject and/or genre. Back before it became simple to search for/sort by author name, I'd have author folders inside my genre/subject folders. These days I take full advantage of searches, tagging and the ability of most readers to add a book to multiple groupings.

That works for calibre which has a great system for sorting and searching. Not so well for Amazon's primitive collection system. Because I wanted to limit the pages on my home page, Authors as collection names with a couple genre collections for single books worked out best for me. I wish I could add tags to kindle ebooks and have my kindle sort by tag. I'm afraid that tags as collection names would create way too many collections, almost as many as I have books. Authors, multiple genres for some books, series. What I would give for an ereader with a real folder system. Sigh.

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by crossi

That works for calibre which has a great system for sorting and searching. Not so well for Amazon's primitive collection system. Because I wanted to limit the pages on my home page, Authors as collection names with a couple genre collections for single books worked out best for me. I wish I could add tags to kindle ebooks and have my kindle sort by tag. I'm afraid that tags as collection names would create way too many collections, almost as many as I have books. Authors, multiple genres for some books, series. What I would give for an ereader with a real folder system. Sigh.

That's one of the reasons that I use Calibre Companion on the iPad. I can browse for a book in all sorts of ways, by author, by title, by series, by category by tag. Both Amazon and Apple seem to think that people rarely have more that a handful of books at a given time, and have designed their reader apps based on that philosophy.

[radius]

Originally Posted by pwalker8

Both Amazon and Apple seem to think that people rarely have more that a handful of books at a given time, and have designed their reader apps based on that philosophy.

Hence keeping a limited number on device

I find it much easier to browse on a desktop. I have most of my books tagged in the file system, along with the number of pages so I can find something of suitable length too.

[Atunah]

I haven't checked lately how many books I have on my kindle or I should say kindles. I mainly use my Oasis now so there would be more than say on the Voyage, which is the 2nd most used kindle. I didn't put all the books on at once of course. I put a few 100 on when I got my Oasis and by now it probably has close to 1000. I do not keep "read" books on the device. I delete those after reading and rating and filing to GR.

I have no issues at all with speed or anything on my kindle. Doesn't seem to matter how many or few items I have on it. Now that was a different story with the K1. I had a SD card on that one and 1000's of books and I remember it taking 8 minutes to search. That is not a joke, it actually took 8 minutes.

With the newer kindles though I have no issues. My K3 didn't have any issues either, nor my basic/button.

I don't think I have every single book I own on the device, not yet anyway. But I have many. I use kindle collections extensively so I never have any issued finding what to read. I have 3 levels of reading next type collections and a total of 47 collections. None of that seems to slow down my device.
Search is very quick also, but most often I go to collections as I don't know what to search for. When I just try to find a next book that is.

I guess I didn't need to put them on, but I want to, so there. It has plenty of space for books, which is all I read on it.

I use calibre only for backup, not for pulling any books. I buy my books from amazon only so always pull them there. New purchases go direct to my Oasis so that is why the number keeps growing on the device.

I just like having them on there. So no matter what is going on, where I am at, I can always access most of my books. Who knows where my reading mood takes me.

I guess I just don't think about those things much. It is what it is. I backup my stuff to the cloud, in my case Amazon as its the cheapest. I would have used dropbox, but the free account is not enough for my book library. And I don't want to have a service where I have to bug strangers to sign up. I just want to pay for what I use, but I can't afford dropbox plan. No clue why they don't have a smaller one. So Amazon it is. I back up my calibre to a hard drive and to a stick drive thingie.

Otherwise I just sit back with my kindle, browse my lovely books and read.

[Fiat_Lux]

Originally Posted by Blossom

My current Calibre library is close to 20GB. Try putting that on a device without problems.

The size of the disk space required to store the books should never be an issue with using an ebook reader.

If the ebooks are the size of volume 4 of Alford's Critical Commentary, you are looking at five books. OTOH, if they are the size of the Project Gutenberg collection I have, you're looking at around 1,000,000 items.

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[Fiat_Lux]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

I can't even imagine being able to read 12,000 books.

There are a couple of professions in which that is considered to be the minimum acceptable size, for one's professional library.

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