A short intro regarding the purpose of this community.
If you are solely making use of project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org) or use a subscription book reading service, you will probably never face any issues reading your books and finding the exact book that you are looking for.
However, for all people who collect books (physical) or ebooks (digital), you will need to think about how to organize them at some point.
Here comes the Ebook Management community, where we discuss ebooks and how to organize and handle them in the most effective way.
Personally I have tried and used some of the options, but eventually I put my NAS to work. A docker container running Komga (komga.org) is what I am using with great pleasure. Either for books (mostly epub and pdf) as well as comics (cbz).
Let this new community know your struggles regarding ebooks and how you have overcome them. What software, formats you are using and so on.
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Let this new community know your struggles regarding ebooks
I don’t have any struggles ? i have many 1000s of ebooks, I just use Calibre, its on a SSD on my desktop, backed up to a HDD with the occasional offsite backup on another HDD, as well as on to a 1TB uSD card for travel with my laptop
I also use Overdrive on the Kobo to borrow from my local library system and can walk down the road to my local library.
I add new books regularly, and have about 80 books on my Kobo , my partner loads up her Kindle the same way. Enough reading on each device for many, many, many weeks
That said, I do struggle but only with finding the time reading so many books and I am coming around to think reading so many books is just a brain rot situation for me. I can’t remember 20 books ago for example what was it ?
I am thinking of finding say 20-50 books and just reading and re reading them and getting to know them deeply might be a solution.
Just for some perspective, it’s not always about retaining facts and content. Reading a dozen books on a topic can have exponentially better comprehension on a topic than reading the same book a dozen times, even if you can’t remember a single fact from any of the dozens of books. Quality is more important, and exposure to different views will be better over time. Unless you find yourself not getting anything out of a topic in the subsequent books, in which case it may be worth the rereading tact.
That would be interesting! I’m only using calibre and backing them up in my cloud, but as I’m buying more and more DRM-free eBooks, I would be interested in some selfhosted web app that presents them more nicely.
I’d like to join mainly to read…. How can I join? I am surprised there’s no link in the post….
I guess OP forgot about the link 😄
It wouldn’t be an authentic community promo without the OP forgetting the link! :)
WHOAH perfect! I just got into Kindle Modding and this is very relevant.
Excited, and subscribed!
I have added the link!
That’s not how to link to communities. See the other commenter’s example.
