11-21-2018, 12:21 PM | #31 |
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a mere 3,181. And here I thought I was already in too deep. Thanks for enabling, y'all.
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11-21-2018, 06:46 PM | #32 |
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11-22-2018, 01:32 AM | #33 | |
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& it seems to be bad form to ask if they were all legit purchases, or if they plan to live another 3000 years to actually read them |
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11-22-2018, 02:52 AM | #34 | |
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I suspect most of those with truly large libraries acquired them in the old days when attitudes to piracy were a little different, and publishers had little or no interest in ebooks. Many also take advantage of the very good public domain ebooks which are now available from various sources. |
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11-23-2018, 10:45 AM | #35 |
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I have 3400 books on my computer. Some having borrowed from the library. I have Adobe Reader.
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11-24-2018, 01:23 AM | #36 | |
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I want it all simply because I can have it all. Why not? Sure, the destruction of society is unlikely but what about destitution? That isn't too far off the charts of possibility. There is nothing wrong of having 'too much' of an infinite resource but too little of the same is borderline irresponsibility. I may have brought that too far. But like I said... thinking about it makes me giddy! |
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11-24-2018, 05:40 PM | #37 |
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Public domain? I've got nearly 700 books in my library that are manuals downloaded from manufacturer's websites. (And probably a few hundred more in my calibre library at work.) I doubt these would be considered public domain, but I'm also sure it's not a copyright violation to collect them. (Yes, I've probably at least skimmed most of those, and likely at least touched the related device.)
Calibre has been great for organizing material like that, as well as adding notes and tags where the manual's title doesn't match the device's part number(s). |
11-30-2018, 09:56 AM | #38 | |
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How large is your Calibre library?
This is exactly my line of reasoning.
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12-30-2018, 01:55 AM | #39 |
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3680. I can't really tell how many gigs are stored where; I have them ins several places on my HDD and Dropbox. I usually save the epubs only to one directory, and then I have a whole Books for iPad folder in my Documents folder on my Mac.
I have gotten some through Gutenberg, this free site for math, tech, and economics books call BookBoon, some from PacktPub free learning, some from GitBook. some from B&N, some from Amazon, Kindle Unlimited, and others. I've honestly stopped collecting as many because I haven't been reading as much as I'd like which is why I picked up a Kindle Paperwhite. The iPad is good insofar as the fiddliness of the software settings, but I keep getting distracted. So I picked up the PW4 in hopes to cure my lack of reading. It is easier to plop in a small bag and take it to doctor's appointments, and other travel. |
12-30-2018, 04:01 AM | #40 |
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4,548 entries. Not all of those entries have actual books. Some are placeholders. About 3,738 are books that I've bought, the others are freebies or public domain or placeholders. I've read 3,199 of them.
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12-30-2018, 08:03 AM | #41 | |
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12-30-2018, 09:49 AM | #42 | |
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There's also this: FanFicFare Plugin Thus far, I haven't really gone to archives that are unsupported by FFF. |
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12-30-2018, 12:17 PM | #43 | |
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So I've learned to edit. With an arsenal of saved searches and my own css files, its amazing what you can do in just a few minutes. When I started editing, I might spend a day or two on some rocky file...after the learning curve, the same result can be had in 10 or 20 minutes. Calibre Rocks! New purchased books I usually edit gently. Why do publishers try and make an e-book look like the paper version? I just can't read a quote in 7 point type. I store everything as epub. I have Kindles, and recently, a Kobo Forma. I just convert as I want to read a piece....azw3 for the Kindle. |
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01-01-2019, 07:55 AM | #44 |
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My Library at the moment is only at 1029, only about half of them are ebooks from humble bundles that I've got over time.
Some of them are placeholders for my real books that go on an actual shelf. Others are placeholders for books my dad has read so when I'm about and see a book that I'll think he will like, I can open my pdf calibre catalogue and see if he has read it already. Tempted to start getting my fav fanfics downloaded but am pretty useless in making good covers for them and really hate the generic calibre ones so if anyone can help with that be great |
01-02-2019, 08:36 PM | #45 | |
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