Complete Library Why?

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Of course. I was just using it as an illustration of what I think is a good compromise between price and capacity.

Ah yes it's a good price. I'd happily pay that for Dropbox.

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[GlenBarrington]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Really? I just had one so I disagree with that principal.

On topic, Dropbox that I use is free. I was lucky to Max out my referrals and get in on a few promos. I have 21GB for free for several years now.

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I have 50GB free for life from Box.com, 20 GB free from Google (like you, a promotional amount), the minimum storage that a prime member gets from Amazon.

But If I'm going to pay for online storage, I think I will likely go with Microsoft. My reasoning will only be of interest to photographers though. My Photo DAM tool, ACDSee supports OneDrive at the root level, which means OneDrive functions (from within ACDSee) as an external HD, no sync program required, and no special folder on the HD. It's REALLY convenient when managing digital assets.

The subscription included to Microsoft Office is not much of an incentive to me, but it might be to others.

The TANSTAAFL principle still applies. These companies are doing it for our benefit, they are doing it for theirs. The amount of information these companies can glean from us from our storage habits and turn into cash is simply astounding.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by GlenBarrington

I have 50GB free for life from Box.com

With that free 50GB at Box, the largest size file you can upload is 250MB.

[GlenBarrington]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

With that free 50GB at Box, the largest size file you can upload is 250MB.

Which is fine for Books, music, photos, and my pre finished Camtasia video projects.

True, I can't store huge zip files, but I can span those files across 250 mb volumes, and I can't store completed videos, but I don't use it for that. I make it a point to not own videos, and I store my own created videos on Techsmiths Screencast.com and on an external drive.

For me, it works.

[DiapDealer]

I haven't fallen in love with enough of my digital media, apparently.
The amount of files/documents I care about enough to back up (online or locally) will probably never exceed the various "free" limitations that are offered. But then I'm not a packrat of physical things either. I'd rather throw it away now and save the space, than hoard it for years for the one time I may want to use it.

[GlenBarrington]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I haven't fallen in love with enough of my digital media, apparently.
The amount of files/documents I care about enough to back up (online or locally) will probably never exceed the various "free" limitations that are offered. But then I'm not a packrat of physical things either. I'd rather throw it away now and save the space, than hoard it for years for the one time I may want to use it.

+1 on this. For me, On line storage is a convenience item and a backup to the backup. I'm willing to work within whatever limits the vendor provides. if that becomes too odious, then I'd go somewhere else.

[tomsem]

Office 365 family is $99/year. Up to 5 'users', 1TB each OneDrive. Plus Office for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, browser. I have stuff in DropBox and Google Drive also but am more or less maxed out on free tier there.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by tomsem

Office 365 family is $99/year. Up to 5 'users', 1TB each OneDrive.

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

[GlenBarrington]

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?

I suspect that to utilize all 5 TB, you would need 5 different user IDs, not an impossible task, but it would make managing them a bit of a challenge.

You could assign a different userid to different purposes I guess.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by GlenBarrington

I suspect that to utilize all 5 TB, you would need 5 different user IDs, not an impossible task, but it would make managing them a bit of a challenge.

You could assign a different userid to different purposes I guess.

Bummer. I'd pay a hundred bucks a year for 5TB of storage. But I don't want to jump through hoops to do it. Not that I need 5TB, but my back up drives are 3 and 4 TB each.

I guess I'll just wait for the cost of cloud storage to drop some more.

[radius]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

The nuance is that, in a cloud storage, you can lose your data because of the decision of someone else but you. (Case in point: CrashPlan is quitting its consumer service. You'll have to find another off-site cloud backup provider, or you'll lose your backups after the subscription ends.)

Ugh! Don't even get me started on CrashPlan. Even if you migrate to a new backup provider, that only gives you backups going forward. Once CrashPlan shuts down the home plans next year, your history will forever be gone even if it is stored on your own drives! The least they could do is allow you to access your old backups on local drives, local computers, or friends' computers even if they didn't allow you to make any new ones or access their servers. Sigh.

I saw upthread that you made some estimates about lifetime reading and I think you are way off. I am only a moderate reader by MobileRead standards, and I have around 1500 "books" in my to-read pile, and 11,000 (5GB or so) in my read pile.

I think in my particular case, the numbers might be skewed by older material (either short stories from the pulps, or else novels from the time when 150 pages made a decent paperback) but regardless, I find that if I keep more than 100-200 books on my reader it's hard to browse for something to read next. Page flipping through the library takes so long that I run out of time before I've even chosen the book haha. I can't imagine the pain of keeping my entire library on device.

And as far as keeping a local copy of everything, I completely agree with you. Even if the book store or publisher doesn't go out of business, sometimes the rights will change and you will no longer be allowed to download something you bought (this has happened to me from Baen and Sony that I remember more recently).

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by radius

I find that if I keep more than 100-200 books on my reader it's hard to browse for something to read next. Page flipping through the library takes so long that I run out of time before I've even chosen the book haha. I can't imagine the pain of keeping my entire library on device.

Not a problem for me because I don't "browse"; I have reading "projects". At the moment, for example, I'm alternating my Baen back-catalogue with reading all Dick Francis' novels in order. When I finish his books, I'll pick another author or theme and do likewise. So I know in advance exactly what I'll be reading .

[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. I sure wish I could have standard window folders though. I would love to have a genre-author-series set up. Biggest pain about DRM. No third party readers with software by someone who knows how to organize data to make it convenient to find. I'd give up all the features I never use like Xray, ect for better organization and more storage. Preferably with Calibre built in.

[faltradl]

Why do some people matter about what other people do?

And why do they trying to convince them, that their way is the only right one?

Why can't you imagine that many people like it to wear a whole library in the pocket? Ebookreader make it possible.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why keep already read eBooks on your Reader? There's really no need.

Why deleting eBooks from your reader? There's really no need. My reader has no problems with loads of books!

Originally Posted by JSWolf

just create a yes/no column in your Calibre library and you can mark what you've already read. And you can also keep track with Goodreads.

Why shall we do the useless work of manage this columne, if we don't need it?

For using Goodreads you must use a Kindle.
- Has erverybody a Kindle?
- Does everybody knowing Amazon what you are reading?

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by faltradl

For using Goodreads you must use a Kindle.
- Has erverybody a Kindle?
- Does everybody knowing Amazon what you are reading?

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,