Friday Report

[adair]

I am moving forward in my effort to make space so Mike can sleep on our couch when he visits. The stacks of books are much to big to sort and make adequate decisions to keep or not, so I bought some banker's boxes and am filling them to stack in the garage. I am screening a little as I pack the boxes, and pulling out a few that I plan to read right away, but most will be brought in after Mike leaves, a box or two at a time for major work.

Making book decisions is hard. A friend does much better than I, and has collected ebooks of most of those she wants to keep. I suspect a lot that I want to keep will not be in ebook format, but some undoubtedly are. I may investigate some books, and see if I can DeDRM them so I can use them on any reader. I am happy to pay for ebooks, but I really do not want to be restricted to one brand of reader. I prefer epub as a format, but B&N epubs are restricted to B&N software. Apple books are epub; I have not tested their restrictions so I can put them on Calibre and move them to any epub reader I have.

Comments

[fred_mouse]

I agree on the getting paper copies. Most of what I read in ebook is opportunistic -- I've subscribed to a couple of alerts on free books, and I download things that seem interesting. When I love a book, I then buy it in paper. So far, that has been one out of 20 or 30. Other than that, I treat it as a library.

I do have some ebooks that I'll miss if something happens -- stuff that isn't (yet) available in paper copy. But I keep an eye out for those particular authors releasing the books, and get them when I can.