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[Mt_Rider]

Everyone is joking about how MANY eBooks they are downloading....cuz so many are FREE! And we're all sure the big red light will go off like a strobe and declare: THAT'S IT! YOU ARE MAXED OUT!


So does anyone know how to tell???

1) I have Kindle For PC. I have well over 200 eBooks...Prolly closer to 300 if you add Adobe Digital Editions. How can I tell if I'm reaching capacity? Some of those 'books' are barely pamphlets and some are huges volumes.

2) For folks who use a Kindle device?

3 ) For anyone using a Nook?

4) Oh...and I also have an iPod [8GB] with nothing else on it but the address book. I truely wish to figure out how to download some of the books to there too.

5) What other types of eReaders are there?



MtRider [...seriously, I'm the one that filled up my PM box on MrsS some years back... ]

Edited by Mt_Rider, 09 May 2012 - 03:51 PM.

[arby]

I believe kindle for pc can handle up to 1700 books.
I have over 400 now....
More books that what are in my home, lol. Most were the free ones.

[Trudy]

I've thought about asking the same question! I now have 756 and most of mine are freebies too. Cat is right - getting free books is addictive!

[Cat]

**Don't wanna think that far ahead...**

[windmorn]

Ereaders can handle 1000's of books. I googled it because I wasn't sure the exact number. I found out you can move books from kindle to your pc/flash drive attached to the pc when the kindle is connected to it. There seems to be an estimate of 1mb/book which makes ABOUT 1000/GB! Specs say about 3500 books on a kindle. Nooks only hold about 1500 BUT has an slot for memory cards. The more memory you have the more you can store. If you delete a book off of your device, it is archieved at Amazon (I assume Nook is the same way) and you can download it at anytime. Audio books take more room and you can't store as many of them.

[Mt_Rider]

Yipppeeeee...I was HOPING that it would be a rediculously L A R G E number of books.

Thanks for the info. Anyone know how to compute for an 8GB iPod?

MtRider

[Amishway Homesteaders]

Looks like you guys are getting like those people who have hundreds of photos on their phones but never look at them.
WHEN are you ever going to have the time to read 350+ books? and stored on a computer that may crash at any time?
I have been seeing a lot of posts for 'free' ebooks on here lately and was just wondering how many that you download do you read?

[Mt_Rider]

I download a lot of classics from literature which I may or may not have previously read. I also down load a LOT of reference books. I don't 'read' them but can use them to look stuff up. [provided we don't have an EMP.. ]

As for the others, some will prove to be dumb or boring and I'll delete them. Many others I will read. I've read a LOT of them already. Being disabled, I read while I can't physically do anything else. Beats counting knots on the rafter logs.

If we ever have a type of Hooey that allows for these reader devices to continue working [and at least periodic electric to charge them], then I will have my library.

If in such a way that all my eLibrary goes {poof} , that will be sad but I also have "one thousand" books in paperback and hardcover too. But a laptop and/or iPod is WAY more portable!!!!


If I devour 4 books per week...times 52...that's 200 books in a year. Not even counting the reference books or ones I'll eventually reject.

MtRider

[Jeepers]

I have a lot stored away to read for when I have more time. Some for next winter or if I get sick and reading will be my only enjoyment.

Some of them are prepping and garden related so I'll keep them even after I read them. I have some medical and reference books too. I have quite a few cookbooks that I will go through and copy some recipes and delete the book. Most of the newer books do not stay free for very long so if you see one you think you might be interested in, it's best to download it while you can get it free. If you don't like it you can always delete it anytime. Also, many of the books are very short so are quick reads.

I usually read at least an hour before I fall asleep every night. Most nights longer. It doesn't take long to go through the shorter books that way. I've never read so many books in my life! For one most of the ones I have are free and two I'd never have room to store them if they were in paper book form. And I'm saving trees...for firewood.

Mine are on the reader so if the computer crashes they are all still safe. Barring an EMP that is. If things get that bad I probably won't have time to do a lot of reading anyway.

[Cat]

For reference ebooks, recipe books, etc....

There is a way to print stuff out. See this thread...

http://mrssurvival.c...67

[Amishway Homesteaders]

................well when you put it that way it does make more sense.

[themartianchick]

I don't own an ereader, but I did download the Kindle for PC. When I download a free book, I don't open up the Kindle software. That way, the book seems to stay in their "cloud" and I can retrieve it later. By the time that I'm ready to read it, I may have already deleted others that I'm no longer interested in. I have nowhere near the number of ebooks that the rest of you seem to have, but I don't like to store too much on my computer hard drive because I don't want it to slow down.

[windmorn]

They will never completely disappear unless amazon does or you delete them from your amazon account through the website. When you delete them from your device they are archieved at amazon. You aren't limited to one device either. You can put them on as many devices as are linked to your account. You can loan them to friends 1 time total I believe as well.

I haven't researched the cloud thing too much. I think it lets you read them from internet without downloading it to a device or app. I wasn't too interested since most of my books are already downloaded on at least one device.

Until I started downloading reference books and 100 yr old world and American history books for dd next year to get a better history imo up until the early 1900's I stayed at around 50% on having read what I get.

I skim at least the first part of most the reference and cookbooks. I'm a fast reader (not speed reader though) and can get through several during a tv show that way. A typical paperback takes me less than a day if I'm interested and have the time or stay up late.

Mt_RIder - 8g isn't really 8g after you figure in system requirements. If you don't have apps or music I'd say conservatively you could store at least 5-6000. I read somewhere that devices might slow down after 2000.

I know on the regular kindle you can make folders. I haven't been able to figure it out on the fire or phone. Since the kids have devices now, I haven't tried to make folders on the pc. I just wish you could make folders in the archieve so I didn't have to remember the name or scroll through all of them to find the book I'm looking for there.

I've wondered too if amazon would put a limit on the number you can obtain free or archieve in the future.

[arby]

Kindle for PC can be divided up into categories, like folders on your computer documents or email folders, you name them to suit your needs. They will be listed on the left hand side of the library.

I have a bunch of history books that were free including European art and Roman history and such things that are the beginning of Western Civilization.
I do not know if I will ever read them all but at least I have them. If the laptop stays working, then if other things fail they are a form of history and civility that can be used to remind me how society should go??? or be used in homeschooling along with the American History and such things related , I felt.

I need coffee......

Someone said you can save the kindle book files to disk/flashdrive...
I guess that is a good back up???

What if Amazon went down entirely too but you had a working laptop after a FALL of the GRID , you could reinstall from protected flashdrive/discs ???
How would that work?

As for small harddrives on old computers.... ouch.

It has gotten so they are truly obsolete even if they are still working.
Windows 7 takes up more than 10GB of memory on the drive already... in fact I think all my operation stuff is now over 12GB, MtRider.

I do consider this a good tool. Not even playing games on it anymore at all, off fb, just trying to get things done and trying to organize my stuff and my brain and not get that distracted anymore. There is plenty in my home that is distracting as it is.

Edited by arby, 10 May 2012 - 09:15 AM.

[Jeepers]

Funny we are talking about this and Amazon just updated the Touch. Electronically that is. So now it look just a wee bit different but they added; landscape mode, language support where you can load 6 new foreign language dictionaries, enhanced table of contents, highlighting across the page, Wikipedia look up with just a tap, instant translations, sharing options, onscreen keyboard suggestions and text-to-speech summaries. Whew, all of that while I was asleep!

The only thing I wish it did (other than clean my house) is to let you have a folder inside a folder like on the computer. They asked for suggestions and I'm going to email them that. Maybe if enough people do...

I go to the Amazon website to delete unwanted books. It took me forever to figure out how to get rid of a book. They stayed in Archives and wouldn't go away.

I downloaded a lot of the classics too. Most I haven't read and some I read and forgot about. I got the Willa Cather books and read My Antonia and loved it.

[Mt_Rider]

Mt_RIder - 8g isn't really 8g after you figure in system requirements. If you don't have apps or music I'd say conservatively you could store at least 5-6000. I read somewhere that devices might slow down after 2000.

THANK you, Windborn! You must be from a younger generation if you can peruse thru books while watching TV. I'm afraid I've left that level of multitaxing.... I mean "multitasking" behind. Just can't do it when one gets older, tho I'd love to be an exception.


I have a question.... but I forgot what it was.....


....
......
........ah HAH! I remember. Is the Amazon account tied to your email address OR your actual computer OR what?

In other words, if my computer crashes, can I go fetch the acquired books from my archived account there with the new computer??? Could I access to read my books from someone else's computer...like a library computer?


MtRider [...even with the advantages of eBooks, paper copies are lots simpler! ]

Edited by Mt_Rider, 10 May 2012 - 10:47 AM.

[Vic303]

Uh, the capacity of most ereaders should be unlimited. You don't put the books on the ereader, you put them on your SD cards and insert the SD cards into the ereader. I have over 1300 books on a single 2gig SD card. They have SD cards up to 64 gig that I have seen and I bet there are even greater storage level ones out there...

[Jeepers]

Mt. Rider, your book list is tied into your Amazon account. Go to Amazon, manage my Kindle account, put in your password and your book list will show up.

So, it's tied into your Amazon account via your Amazon password. As long as you have your Amazon account password, you can access them from any computer.


I really needed to jump in with that info because I am so tech illiterate it isn't often I have an answer.

Hope I get this posted before anyone else hits the 'add reply' button. I'm not even going to proof read this.


P.S. Windmorn is a whizz when it comes to this stuff. She also finds the coolest things on line.

[Mt_Rider]

LOL Jeepers. MtRider sees her waving her hand wildly in class...before she falls out of her desk chair in her enthusiasm.




OK...but what if my email changes...cuz that's the other thing you have to type in besides your password, right?



And...iPod Touch device does not have those thingies that Vic is talking about, do they???



MtRider [....laptop is fine right now but I have "history" with computers! ]

[arby]

Well. I went and got my Mothers day package from my son and I was thinking it was the Office program he had meant to get me for the laptop, which would have been a bit more prudent.....for my needs......
but he spoiled me with a kindle fire and a 50 $ gift card for kindle stuff at amazon

I can play movies on it so with a couple books for it and downloading a bunch I already have in my library for kindle on amazon , I rented War Horse, the movie as I have really wanted to see it and am watching it now after I was able to thank him.
I see how one has web access too, very cool.

A nice mauve leather cover for it too.
I ordered a stylus for it since my fat fingers get in the way of the touch keyboard.. a silver one. Should go nicely together......


My son said he thought it would be much handier when I have to travel on the buses around here for so long, instead of trying to manage with my laptop to do reading and such things.

If I can get the Office program I can transfer my writing and put the docs on the kindle fire to review and maybe put notes on it? or at least review and edit later....

oh, gee the cover folds up to hold it for viewing movies.
Not sure if the reading turns 90 degrees so you can read it like that too? ( horizontally? ) Anyone know?

I sorta wish he had just given me a debit gift card so I could have gotten the food saver instead.... if he was going to do this kind of spending. ( being more practical, but this was very kind of him to do.)
I will certainly use it!

Edited by arby, 14 May 2012 - 08:26 PM.