Why does everyone keep all their books on their Kindle?

[DreamWeaver]

I used to keep everything on my k3 - mostly because I could but it started slowing down after about the 800th book.

That's what happened to me too. There were no problems when I had fewer books, but as my ebook collection neared 1,000, the Kindle became very s-l-o-w and the long delays when highlighting/searching became intolerable.

[mlewis78]

I have a lot of ebooks that are not from Amazon.  I keep them on an external hard drive, but whatever is not on my K3 or K4 may be forgotten some day.  So I have a lot of unread books on my K3 and K4 but not all of them. Why not keep a lot of books on kindle?

[LP]

I keep my library with me. Since I'm an avid reader, I can't sleep without reading something. I used to have two huge - and i mean gigantic real bookshelves, which i built from scratch, each holds close to 2000 books. Now I have it all with me. Maybe it's time I sold off my bookshelves!

[tamaraheiner]

I only keep unread books & cookbooks on my Kindle. I have no need to keep a book I have read on my K since I have almost filled it with unread books.

ditto that. I don't keep the ones I've read. If I decide to reread, I can get them again.

[KimberlyinMN]

I only keep the books I haven't read yet on my Kindle.  Once I finish a book, I delete it from the device.  All my books are backed up in Calibre on my computer.

Ditto! I recently moved the Calibre library to our server so that it is backed up on a regular basis. Granted, I've also sent all of my non-Amazon books to my Kindle email so that those books are also "in the cloud"... but I feel better knowing that I won't ever "lose" my books.

I like the idea that someone posted about keeping track of the read books in a spreadsheet. I might have to set up a Google file for that so I can get to it with my phone and NC too.

[Meemo]

Ditto! I recently moved the Calibre library to our server so that it is backed up on a regular basis. Granted, I've also sent all of my non-Amazon books to my Kindle email so that those books are also "in the cloud"... but I feel better knowing that I won't ever "lose" my books.

I like the idea that someone posted about keeping track of the read books in a spreadsheet. I might have to set up a Google file for that so I can get to it with my phone and NC too.

I used to keep an Excel spreadsheet - lost it in a computer near-death.  I used Goodreads to re-create it on paper, in an unused travel journal I'm now using to keep track of the books I finish.  I figure books take me places so it's appropriate enough, and it even has pockets for pictures that I use to keep things like the info for logging in to my Overdrive libraries, lists of books in a series in order, etc.  And I'm happy to be using the journal, which I'd bought when we had an RV that we don't have any more.