I am still not entirely convinced of the permanence of e-books - we technically only license e-books, not own them - so I continue to buy and keep hardbacks of my serious faves. Paperbacks, on the other hand, I weed.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
bennett - Dec 06, 2013 6:47:59 am PST #21693 of 28370
Toddson - Dec 06, 2013 6:51:05 am PST #21694 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I need to do some serious weeding of the books ... haven't for a while, so it's overdue.
There's a group that has had a short-term used book store every year - Turning the Page - they collect books, sell them, use the proceeds for literacy efforts. Now they've set up a longer-term place and I plan to start hauling books to them ... as soon as I can (1) weed and (2) get my ass in gear.
meara - Dec 06, 2013 6:54:56 am PST #21695 of 28370
I need to do some serious weeding of the books ... haven't for a while, so it's overdue.
This is a big part of it. I bought my house and put the books in my guest room since they no longer had to be in my bedroom or office, and now they are out of sight out of mind! Combine that with the change in FAA regulations meaning I'm no longer buying books at the airport or to read on the plane in paperback, and I suddenly feel like I need to do something with those I have.
Bennett, I am downloading my kindle books and stripping the DRM. I bought them, they are mine.
Toddson - Dec 06, 2013 6:58:37 am PST #21696 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I have Kindle on my iPad mini, so I'm hoping to cut back on the amount that pile up. Deleting an ebook I've read but have no interest in rereading is painless. My only problem is, that for my jury duty days, I can't bring the iPad in - they don't allow anything with a camera (a woman got arrested for taking a picture of someone in the courthouse - she said she was trying to use the selfie camera to check her hair ... but managed to take a photo of someone else).
Consuela - Dec 06, 2013 9:44:08 am PST #21697 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Bennett, I am downloading my kindle books and stripping the DRM. I bought them, they are mine.
That's my position as well.
bennett - Dec 06, 2013 10:45:10 am PST #21698 of 28370
I'm there in theory. Just haven't got organized enough to strip DRM in practice.
But I'll keep my favorite hardbacks anyway - Bujold, Heyer, Dunnett, etc. I'm just more ... comfortable, secure, happy, something ... with them around the house.
Amy - Dec 06, 2013 10:47:18 am PST #21699 of 28370
Because books.
How do you strip DRM? Or maybe I should ask why you do?
Dana - Dec 06, 2013 10:50:27 am PST #21700 of 28370
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
You do, because then you can convert it to different formats, and it ensures you can keep a copy of the ebook without being subject to (for example) Amazon's whim.
As to how, you use Calibre. If you google, there are good instructions about how to do it. It's not too difficult.
Jessica - Dec 06, 2013 10:53:04 am PST #21701 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Or maybe I should ask why you do?
Mostly in order to be able to read an e-book on a different device - most of the library books available through BPL are Adobe Protected PDFs (through Overdrive), which the last time I checked can only be opened on a PC. Not a Mac, and not on a mobile device. So I strip the DRM in order to put them on my phone/iPad/Kindle/etc.
Likewise, if I ever decide I want to switch to a non-Kindle e-reader, I would either have to break the DRM on my Amazon books or buy them all again.
[edit: And yeah, Calibre plugins will do this easily.]
meara - Dec 06, 2013 10:53:08 am PST #21702 of 28370
What Dana said. Also, because I hate the way Amazon organizes (or rather, DOESN"T organize) my purchased Kindle books. I can't sort them like I want. I prefer Calibre for that. It also allows you if one site is having a deal on a book to buy it at that site, and then put it on your other-type-of-device.