What do you store on your reader?

[desertgrandma]

I can't keep my entire library on my reader. They aren't all available for download.

Or did I mis-interpret the questions?

[CleverClothe]

I store my whole library, with backups and management on my computer. But library management is a big issue. I use Fictionwise to manage my read/unread list for now. I plan to try out Calibre.

[astra]

I have less than 20 books on my reader atm. I never have more. Even 20 it too many, but there are 2 series. 1 series 7 books long and I read the first 5. I keep them until I finish the series. Then there is another trilogy, that I converted and prepared for reading some time ago. Another 10 books are stand alone that I read one at time between thick volumes of fantasy series.

[Patricia]

PilotBob,
I've edited the poll to add the extra option you requested, and amend the spelling.

Me, I have some favourites, plus some new books.
Also I have included my personal address book and a list of useful things (the vacuum cleaner model mumber for when I buy filters and dustbags, partner's shirt collar size, and the size of our windows -- I'm in the market for new curtains.)
When going on holiday I sometimes upload material from tourist websites, so as to make a mini-guidebook for each city.

[Format C:]

Dilbert never leaves my iLiad.
What the Duck is going to join him.

In the remaining space I keep a dozen or so of unread books, mostly PD.
I delete them as soon as I'm finished.
When the list is empty, I reload it.

[khourianya]

On the reader itself, I keep all of my unread books (deleting as I read them) and some favourites. I also keep a memory stick with all my classic books on it...just in case I get the urge to read a good classic.

[pshrynk]

Right now, I keep everything on my Kindle, but in the future Amazon bought books may go to Amazon for storage. I keep a back up on my computer of everything.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by astra

I have less than 20 books on my reader atm. I never have more. Even 20 it too many, but there are 2 series. 1 series 7 books long and I read the first 5. I keep them until I finish the series. Then there is another trilogy, that I converted and prepared for reading some time ago. Another 10 books are stand alone that I read one at time between thick volumes of fantasy series.

If you used collections, it would be very easy to store more then 20 and to find what it is you want.

[astra]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

If you used collections, it would be very easy to store more then 20 and to find what it is you want.

But why?
20 books is almost 1 year or even more than 1 year of reading time for me. Why make things more complicated and put more books than I can read? Just because I can? Noy my style

I don't put more books not because I think it would be difficult to find a book on the reader. I just don't need so many books at any point of time.

[Hucairz]

Hi All,

I'm currently moving my entire library from my PDA to my Sony 505.

I used haalireader first on my PDA and that was extremely quick at going through by Author then Title in zipped text archives.

Having got more books, and wanting a better format I moved to Mobipocket.
Its internal library management was hopeless so I just stored books in Author folders and launched individual books from the explorer.

I'm now converting all of my books to LRF for the reader using Calibre (Thanks Kovid - its a fantastic tool!). I'm at 210 books so far.

I'm making heavy use of collections to try and cut down the number of pages I have to wade through, but I'm at 30 Collections already so I'm not sure how well that will pan out in the end.

I'd like to get my entire Library on the Sony, but I'm putting unread books and my old favourites first, and I'll see how it goes.

[nekokami]

Originally Posted by Elsi

I want to be able to mark the book as "read" or move it from an active directory to an archive directory. I want to be able to mark reading order in series and to be able to rank/prioritize my TBR books. I want to be able to rate a book as soon as I finish it.

Good feature list. I'd like to see these options on the iLiad, as well... and now that they're going to release the source for the software, we might actually be able to implement these.

[arit]

if the Cybook's delete button would work, it would be "I keep all unread books in my library on my reader. ", but as it does not I end up with "I keep my entire library on my reader.". Perhaps it will change with future updates....

[DMcCunney]

I have my entire ebook library (about 3,500 volumes) on my PDA, mostly because I can. The library takes about 1.7GB, spread across two 2GB cards. (My PDA has two SD slots, so both are available at all times.)

The primary store in on my desktop, in an \eBooks directory on a secondary drive. That directory is 11GB, with 49,00+ files in 3560 folders. IT contains source files in a variety of formats, plus conversions for the PDA.

By preference, I get HTML source files, and convert for the Plucker offline HTML reader for Palm OS, but I have files in MobiPocket, PDF, and other formats, too.

Books are stored by category, the by author withing category, and then by title. I use a naming convention for books on the PDA to make things easier, because Plucker doesn't support folders on the card. It assumes all documents are in one folder, and have been assigned a Palm OS category. Palm OS has a limit of 16 categories, and fitting everything into them was a challenge. I wouldn't mind more categories and finer grained control, but I can deal with what I have.

On device (for files I create), I use a naming convention of <Author's Initials> <Series Number> <Title>, so David Weber's Honor Harrington series, for instance, will have book titles like "DW HH01 On Basilisk Station" in the SF/Fantasy category, and the list will display by author, and then by series and series number (if any) in the list of books in that category.

MobiPocket files are stored similarly, though Mobi substitutes Reading Lists for categories, and can have up to 32 lists.

The PDF viewer I use supports folders on a card, so I can organize PDFs by folder, but by preference, I don't use PDFs if the book is available in any other format. Reading a PDF on a handheld device can be a painful experience.

The biggest problem is the need to maintain multiple viewers to handle all of the content I have, and recall which book is in which format read by which viewer. I don't see that changing any time soon.
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Dennis

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

I can't keep my entire library on my reader. They aren't all available for download.

Or did I mis-interpret the questions?

I guess I meant "digital" library Granddma. If I put my whole library on my reader it would break cause it would be too heavy!

BOb

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by Patricia

PilotBob,
I've edited the poll to add the extra option you requested, and amend the spelling.

Gracias.

BOb