Calibre 9 and Box Cloud Storage

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Originally Posted by Mr_H_Poirot

Wow, 180,000 books!?

I'm really interested why people have such big libraries given one can't read that many books in a lifetime. Is it just that some users like to 'collect' electronic books and have them available 'in case' you want to read them?

Or is there a concern that books on standard e-books or gutenberg or wherever will become unavailable at some point and so won't be downloadable when you want to read them? So you are downloading vast amounts of such books now to safeguard against a future risk? [I find that standard e-books is often updating and improving books as people read them and find the odd error in formatting. So I wait until I want to read it as then I'll have the most polished version]

Or something else?

In my case, both reasons apply. I like to collect ebooks, and yes, I'm concerned many of them might no longer be available one day.

That said, most of my ebooks are actually purchases of modern works, not public domain stuff (although I have quite a lot of those too). Some are saved webpages, free fiction published online and the like, things I have formatted and converted to epubs. But most are just purchases.