[bookshare-discuss] Re: Housekeeping Questions
- From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:12:13 -0400
Debra,
I was having the same problem and then it got worse when I lost all of my
files. I realized the only books I did not lose were ones I had on a
back-up cd. Now, I have all of my Bookshare books, even the ones I
validated or scanned when I had a scanner, on back-up cds leaving only the
ones I am working on and the ones I am reading in my documents sub-divided
by country or and further subdivided by author if more than one or two books
by a given author. That is also how I divide and subdivide my books on my
cds. I keep newly downloaded books in my documents and keep a running
backup on a spare hard drive for that purpose and later catch up with the
cds. The back up is set to add updates and not keep repeating whole back up
or I would rapidly run out of room. It is a lot easier than worrying about
losing files though it is fortunate that I can always re-download bookshare
books . In my recent loss were some Microsoft Reader books as well as some
Adobe ones and I don't remember which Microsoft I had but they are gone as
are some of the Adobe (fortunately most of them were on the back up) but
Amazon no longer sells ebooks and no longer keeps their footlocker. I don't
remember what books I had except the dictionaries - I do remember them- but
cannot re-download from a non-existant locker.
I learned my lesson. If I want it I back it up somewhere and I make sure
that I can open the back-ups if they have to be "restored". They are not
always easy to open. As long as you can get a good supply of cd-rw's you
can have all the books you want without taking up too much hard disk space
and all you have to do is put a cd in your cd drive and download any book
you want - leaving the copy one the cd and the book you are reading or
working on in your hard disk as well. I have even backed-up some of my basic
programs as well as special ones (like Scrabble which got lost with the last
failure so I have no intentiont of losing it again).
You can develope as large a library as you want in no space whatever with
cds. they can hold upwards of 40 books on 1 cd depending upon the size of
the books and cds.
Amy
----- Original Message -----
From: <zaria797@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:36 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Housekeeping Questions
I was wondering several things.....
Sometimes I get into a download frenzy........and don't count how many
downloads I've done. I know there is a 100 book limit per month; is there
some sort of counter to keep track or what?
I know there has to be a better or rather more efficient way to store
books. Right now I download into a desktop file called BookShare. I must
have over 300 books in there; all jumbled together with no rhyme or
reason. I used to take great pride in how neat my bookshelves were when I
had print books lined up on my bookshelves, categorized by author and
subjects. Any suggestions whould be greatly appreciated.
Debra
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