Roger, maybe this gives you an explanation of at least why I may hit 300 books downloaded in a 30 day period for this month. I don't intend to read them in the usual sense. Bookshare is uploading all the O'Reilly technical books. I happen to have computer systems with different versions of operating systems (Mac, two versions of Windows), and I also have a PC-based Apache server. So I'm downloading books that are reference manuals that I've wanted for a long time. At the same time, the new publisher quality books coming in contain reference manuals for programming in CSS and HTML that I've also wanted, so it's the same thing. So I'm downloading a whole lot of books at once. That way, in the future I have reference manuals at my fingertips, so to speak, every time I need them.
I also regularly download more fiction books than I can read a month. I do that because I usually want to read a decent-sized excerpt from a book to see if I really want to read it. I usually discover that I only really like about one of every five books I actually download. The other four, when I open them up and read an excerpt, turn out to not be interesting to me, or are a style of writing I don't like, or not what I thought it would be. So I just wipe those files off, and keep only the books that I then know I'm actually interested in completely reading from beginning to end.
Judy s. Quoting Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>:
did not make that point explicit. The point I was trying to clarify with my metaphor of bookshelvs was my perplexity at why anyone would download more books than he or she could possibly read and, especially, why 300 per month would not be enough for anyone. It is, of course, fine with me if others do that, but I am still perplexed.
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