Are you an e-book hoarder? How many is too many?

[teeitup]

When I first got my Kindle, I wasn't assigning many of the books to collections. I had pages and pages of books! Then I sat down one day and categorized all my books. It was a tedious process and it took several hours (hundreds of books!), but it was well worth the time. After that experience, I made a hard-and-fast rule that a new book is assigned to a collection immediately. That's what I use K4PC software for. I don't download any ebooks into that program; they're all stored at Amazon. I don't keep many books on my Kindle device anymore. And I don't have many collections on the device since they're mostly games, reference books, and the book I'm currently reading.

As for finding the genre, I get most free books by searching at eReader iQ, where the genre is usually shown in the listing. When I find a book I want, I have it sent to Kindle Cloud Reader. I write the book title and genre down on a piece of paper, then I go into K4PC and assign the book into collection(s) there. With all the interesting free books available lately, I've been doing that in batches, and it doesn't take too much time.

Thank you for telling me how you do it.  This will help when I decide to take the time to get organized.  So if you don't keep that many books on your Kindle, then most of your collections will show up on your K4PC, right.  I tried setting some up on the Kindle but it seemed tedious and went ahead and started on the K4PC with the ones I was sure of.  I get most of my freebie notices from Books on the Knob and eReaderIQ too so will start there.  Just tired of seeing 86 pages of books on my Kindle although I usually know which book I want to read next.  Organized in all aspects of my life, except this!!

[DreamWeaver]

Thank you for telling me how you do it.  This will help when I decide to take the time to get organized.  So if you don't keep that many books on your Kindle, then most of your collections will show up on your K4PC, right.  I tried setting some up on the Kindle but it seemed tedious and went ahead and started on the K4PC with the ones I was sure of.  I get most of my freebie notices from Books on the Knob and eReaderIQ too so will start there.  Just tired of seeing 86 pages of books on my Kindle although I usually know which book I want to read next.  Organized in all aspects of my life, except this!!

What I found surprising about Kindle for PC software is that you don't have to actually download the Amazon ebook to your computer in order to assign it to a collection. So I keep all of those books "in the cloud." I do have some .mobi books stored on my computer (purchased from Smashwords and elsewhere), and those are categorized in K4PC too.

It's tedious to set up collections in K4PC, as it is on the Kindle device, but keeping them organized there has worked out much better than having all my books on the device. For me, collections became crucial when I started accumulating a lot of ebooks. With 1,500+ ebooks, I'd never be able to find anything if they weren't organized!

Initially, it seemed like an overwhelming task to organize books into collections, but I found the process less intimidating when I committed to doing small batches at a time. And since I now assign new books into collection(s) immediately, it's much easier to keep it all organized.

I hope it works out well for you!

[jkeith0919]

I am a hoarder no longer! I just got my replacement K3 all set up & I only downloaded about half of my TBR collection & my "waiting for sequel" collection. I went from all 271 ebooks to just 65!