The problem with my kindle backlog

[conuly]

*ahem*

is that I've been buying all the new things and I really ought to be backing up some of the old things. So I'm resolving that over the next few months my spare kindle money will go to getting editions of books I already own and enjoy in dead tree format! Because I've officially run out of shelves. (Hah, I ran out of shelves years ago, and that's with stacking. I've officially run out of floor. I've also run out of mattress, piano, kitchen counter, linen closet, downstairs pantry, and basement... or, anyway, nobody else is letting me store books in those places anymore, and if they did I'd have more floorspace, but even I can see that this is not actually a viable longterm solution unless I want to end up like the Collier brothers.)

Will I then go and store my old books? PROBABLY NOT WITHOUT A FIGHT! But I'll be able to.

Hey, what's the data limit on an individual kindle anyway?

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Why Are So Few Male Students Studying Abroad? (Relatedly, I still think we need a widespread domestic exchange program for high school and college. It'd be more accessible to many than foreign exchange programs, and open up some eyes just the same.)

How Turkish coffee destroyed an empire

In 1930s Tunisia, French Doctors Feared a ‘Tea Craze’ Would Destroy Society

The Real Powerhouses That Drive the World’s Economy

Why the Myth of the “Savage Indian” Persists

Conservative Media Is Waging a War on the Humanities, and It's Succeeding

How rehab recruiters are luring recovering opioid addicts into a deadly cycle.

Comments

[sallymn]

I hear you (mind you, most of my books aren't available as ebooks but some, maybe...) Thing is, I still love them so much...

[alexseanchai]

the coffee and tea links are fascinating, the conservative media one terrifying

[conuly]

This is a terrifying timeline.

[conuly]

Clearly what I need is more money so I can buy a bigger house. (Alas, I think we all know I'd just buy more books with it and then where would they all go?)

[cloudsinvenice]

I don't know about the data limit, but it's possible to archive books in your Kindle account without having them stored on your Kindle (though you can unarchive them whenever you like). I've been using that to clear up books I've read recently, since my Kindle is an app on a phone that doesn't have vast amounts of data, by my ebook-buying standards...

[thewayne]

And this is why I have given away 1000+ books in the last year and switched to buying almost exclusively ebooks. While I definitely prefer dead tree editions, the clutter just gets away from me. I still buy DTEs occasionally, but it's very rare.

[alatefeline]

Books yesssssd.

[thornsilver]

My Kindle (version 5) currently has 251 books downloaded on it, and as far as I know plenty of space. Also, as I saw people mention above, there is no limit on books you can actually have in your account and download or delete as many times as you'd like.

[conuly]

Yeah, I've currently got something like 1100 books on my Kindle, and some of them are actually entire trilogies that I bought as a bundle. That's why I'm starting to get concerned.

Also, while I do delete subpar books off the kindle all the time, I keep thinking - what if I'm stuck in an elevator? I WILL WANT MORE BOOKS TO READ. I don't want to delete them all, do I? I might want to read them right when I have no access to the internet to get them back!

[conuly]

Note to self: Definitely don't switch to the phone app then.

[conuly]

They do take up a lot of space.

[thewayne]

That they do.  And it was also a matter that there was no way that I would ever get around to re-reading so many of them: too many new authors that I'd rather read!

[kengr]

Well, on my Kindle Fire, it's how big a memory card it'll take. I've got a 32 gig card in there and it holds an insane amount of books and music.

You'll run into the limitations of how the kindle organizes books way before you run out of memory.

Having it just display the books as a big lump is a royal pain once you get over a dozen or so.

I really wish it could display by author. Or buy whether I've read them yet.

It'd also be nice if It'd filter on whether or not I *own* the book or not.

[conuly]

I really do wish I could sort by whether or not I'd read it, but if I'm determined to sort by author I could always make folders.

[kengr]

I just have to figure out how to get it to show me things by folder instead of the big lump.

[offcntr]

I don't don't know about Fire--got a PaperWhite--which lets you sort by author, title, or most recently opened. Don't think it'll do Unread, but I'd have to check.

You can also side load books from your Kindle to a computer or through to a thumb drive using the free Calibre software, if you don't trust Amazon to hold your books in the cloud for you.

[conuly]

Oh, I don't trust Amazon. They're my books, I paid for them, so I should be allowed to do what I want with them.