How many books do you have on your Kindle?

[silenus]

Or Nook, or iPad, or whatever electronic reading device you are partial to.

I just downloaded my 200th book to my DX. That is barely scratching its capacity, but I think that will be enough to get me through the next debate season, no matter how boring the tab room is.

You?

[zombywoof]

I tend to keep about 50 at a time on my Kindle...that gives me more than enough material to choose from at any given time, and keeps the Home screen content list to a manageable ~5 pages.

It's a small fraction of its capacity, perhaps I'd keep more on there if "Collections" were better implemented.

[Onomatopoeia]

At this point, I think I'm up to a little over 300 on my DX. The last time I counted, I had 277 books on it, but that was sometime last year and I've bought a number of books since then.

[longhair75]

I use a Sony 505, and I have eighty or so. I need to clear out the stuff I have finished and reload.

[WordMan]

I got a Kindle a couple months ago and download when I am ready for the next book to read; I don't graze and sample (not that there is anything wrong with that ;-). Maybe 15 books or so thus far.

[Kamino Neko]

54. Due to the crappy organization system of what I use, they get removed as I finish them. Don't know how long it'll take to plow through what I've got.

[charmstr]

I have 577 on my Kindle and it's slow and an organizational nightmare. I created a group called "currently reading" and put the 6 or 7 books I was interested in it. Prior to doing that, I dreaded leaving one book for another because finding the first one again was so tedious. I organize all my books with Calibre and I wish that the Kindle was more Calibre-friendly.

At one point I had well over 1,000 books on my Kindle but I took all the books off that I had already read or knew I was never going to read and it left me with a (marginally) more manageable list.

[Onomatopoeia]

I have 577 on my Kindle and it's slow and an organizational nightmare. I created a group called "currently reading" and put the 6 or 7 books I was interested in it. Prior to doing that, I dreaded leaving one book for another because finding the first one again was so tedious. I organize all my books with Calibre and I wish that the Kindle was more Calibre-friendly.

At one point I had well over 1,000 books on my Kindle but I took all the books off that I had already read or knew I was never going to read and it left me with a (marginally) more manageable list.Before Collections, I had about 200 or so books on my Kindle, and it was a nightmare of disorganization then. It's better since Collections was implemented, but not nearly as good as it could be.

[Implicit]

I have 577 on my Kindle and it's slow and an organizational nightmare. I created a group called "currently reading" and put the 6 or 7 books I was interested in it. Prior to doing that, I dreaded leaving one book for another because finding the first one again was so tedious. I organize all my books with Calibre and I wish that the Kindle was more Calibre-friendly.

At one point I had well over 1,000 books on my Kindle but I took all the books off that I had already read or knew I was never going to read and it left me with a (marginally) more manageable list.
There is an addon that can you can use with Calibre to organize your books into collections automatically by tag or manually (disclaimer: I've not gotten around to using it yet).

I have over 400 books on my kindle.

[ryan]

Around 200 books, a couple of magazine subscriptions and about 30 PDFs I downloaded or created myself are currently loaded on my Nook.

[Shakester]

I have over 30 at the moment, as I've just stocked up. I usually have around 20-ish.

Checking the ebooks folder on my computer, I have 108 listed. I delete books from the Kindle after I've read them because everything is backed up on two separate hard drives. I'll burn them to disc too, next time I back things up.

Why are people keeping all their books on the Kindle? I find 3 pages of titles are enough to be dealing with. I'd expect having 600 books on it would slow things down a lot.

I only buy books using the Kindle for PC app and I transfer them to my Kindle from there - I don't have my Kindle registered with Amazon. I'm not worried about Amazon deleting anything from my Kindle and since I have my ebooks backed up anyway it wouldn't matter much if they did, I just don't see the need. It suits me better to buy with my computer and use the Kindle just for reading.

Some of my books are from Project Gutenburg and the like, it's just easier to organise everything on my hard drive and only transfer things on my "to be read soonish" list over to the Kindle.

[MacSpon]

I have around 300 or so on my iPhone and iPad. Do most of my reading on the iPhone.
It's actually been a while since I read a print book.

[Feyrat]

576 on my Nook :)

[Shakester]

Seriously, I'd like answers:


Why are people keeping all their books on the Kindle? I find 3 pages of titles are enough to be dealing with. I'd expect having 600 books on it would slow things down a lot.

I don't mean to hijack the OP, but I think it's an interesting additional question. Are people finding that they need to refer back to things they read three months ago on a regular basis? Or is it just the novelty of carrying an entire collection around at once?

Supplementary additional question: I'd expect having 600 books on it would slow things down a lot - is that the case?

ETA: Also, am I the only one backing up my ebooks? Because otherwise dead Kindle really does = lost books as well.

[drillrod]

I have over 1200 books on my nook. But I'm currently deployed overseas and want to have a good variety available to me.

Browsing through the title listing is a bit of a hassle, but other than that, I haven't noticed any slowdown in function. I'll probably go ahead and delete the vast majority of those when I get home in the next month.

[Feyrat]

All my books are on my computer as well, yes.

Why keep all of them on the Nook? Because I WANT all of them on the Nook. I want to be carrying 500+ books around in my purse. I want to be able to look up an obscure point of Tolkien Lore in the History of Middle-Earth when I'm out to lunch with fellow nerds. I want to be able to read bits that amused me to my mother when we're in the car. I want to have the option of reading whatever I feel like it when on a long trip. I even GM game modules out of that thing (yay, Calibre!) and keep my sourcebooks on it.

I've always been a big re-reader, I like HAVING books that please me, and I was able to pack away an entire ROOMFUL of books and sell the ones I wasn't all that attached to the hard copies of, because of my Nook. I love that thing.

[raspberry hunter]

I don't mean to hijack the OP, but I think it's an interesting additional question. Are people finding that they need to refer back to things they read three months ago on a regular basis? Or is it just the novelty of carrying an entire collection around at once?

Well, some of both (I regularly refer back to my Complete Works of Gilbert and Sullivan, for instance). But also, isn't it true that what collection you're in doesn't get saved if you archive the book?

ETA: Also, am I the only one backing up my ebooks? Because otherwise dead Kindle really does = lost books as well.

This I don't understand... if you bought it from amazon can't you download it as many times as you like, even if you lose the kindle? At least, I've never had a problem downloading all the books my sister likes (she and I are registered to the same account). Or maybe you're saying that after losing a kindle you wouldn't want to buy another one?

But yes, I do keep a file copy ebook backup for any ebooks I care about (which is, honestly, not all of them), because a) some of them are gutenberg or other distribution system rather than amazon proper, and b) what if amazon goes out of business?

[misling]

There are about 1200 on the Kindle, and about 7500 on the PC, organized by Calibre. And yes, I use the collections plugin to Calibre. Everything is in a collection, and no collection is over 100 books. I usually try to keep the Kindle total down below 1000 because it slows if I go much above that. I need to do some maintenance and take off the last couple series I read.
Kindle's marketing stuff says you can keep 3500 on it. There's space enough, but it doesn't work really. The performance is just bearable at 1000 books.

[cdsilv]

~12,000 - yup, twelve thousand. I found some of teh tor-enz. Good stuff too. All niven, lots of dune, norah roberts, heinlein, and many many more. 277 printed pages of titles.

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[Chopper9760]

I've got everything on my Nook, about 1500 files at last count.

If you've got the space, why not? The search feature on the NST is really nimble, finding specific files is fast. I've broken my files down into different categories and browsing still pretty easy.

I don't want to mess with my e-reader, I wanna load that thing up and know that I have my library close to paw and ready to travel at the drop of a hat.

I read books over and over, that's probably a major factor between large and small library folks.

[Chicken Fingers]

I only have about 80 books on my brand new Nook. All but one are free that I scavenged from sites like Project Gutenberg, Google books, etc. I share the Nook with the family, so half the books are their choices.

So far, I like the new Nook, but can't find anything to buy from Barnes and Noble. Their ebook inventory seems kind of sad. They sell a number of public domain classics that you can get for free elsewhere. Their free titles include a lot of badly scanned garbled books that no one would want. Their website is slow and awkward to browse.

[Shakester]

This I don't understand... if you bought it from amazon can't you download it as many times as you like, even if you lose the kindle? At least, I've never had a problem downloading all the books my sister likes (she and I are registered to the same account). Or maybe you're saying that after losing a kindle you wouldn't want to buy another one?

But yes, I do keep a file copy ebook backup for any ebooks I care about (which is, honestly, not all of them), because a) some of them are gutenberg or other distribution system rather than amazon proper, and b) what if amazon goes out of business?

Some of my books were bought from Amazon. Yes, theoretically you can re-download them forever, which is fine if; 1. Amazon survives forever. 2. Amazon doesn't ever change its policy. 3. The Kindle and its successors remains the best choice of ebook hardware forever.

Currently I love my Kindle. It's the best thing since movable type was invented. However, it's entirely possible that in 5 or 10 years time I'll be seduced away from the Kindle by some other device. If that should happen, then my backups of Kindle books might need to be converted into some new file format. Since I have them backed up, I can do that.

As you say, if Amazon goes belly-up - and anything is possible in the world of business - then the only people who'll lose their books are the ones who didn't back them up.

[Blackberry]

I have a little over 500 books on my Kindle, plus 97 samples (and 19 games and a few hours' worth of music). About 225 of the books are free ones from Amazon that I haven't read yet and might not ever, but downloaded just in case, because hey, I love free stuff (also I lend them on booklending.com). 91 are public library books that I haven't read yet.

I was just thinking maybe I should delete some books because even though there is still a lot of space left on my Kindle, it does seem to be quite a bit slower than it was before I had so much stuff on it. Once I'm reading a book it doesn't matter, i.e. the page turns aren't slower, but pressing the "home" button or doing a search or something is noticeably slower. (But see, I'm the one who can get impatient while fast-forwarding through commercials at the highest speed on my DVR, so I'm not sure I should cater to my ADD that much anyway.)

[Scathach]

In or around 600. Love love LOVE being able to have such a choice of things to read when I have time to kill. I use Calibre as well so all of its backed up in my library. Used to hate creating collections because it took so long but I found a program called "kindle collection manager" that lets me do it through the computer so it's way less painful.