How many is TOO many on an ereader (Kindle, etc)?

[MaryAnn]

I recently realized that I have over 3500 books in the Kindle App of my iPad. I frequently troll through the free or really cheap books on Amazon, but I hadn't realized just how many I've accumulated!

How many is normal for everyone else? :)

[Yzabel]

I'm over the 550 mark, and this is already too much for me. I can't catch up! ^_^;

[Leigh, ⚔️ Wonder Woman ⚔️]

In Kindle I only have 700, but Nook I have 1700. I am a book hoarder and I am okay with that. LOL
So many good books and not enough time to read.

[Leigh, ⚔️ Wonder Woman ⚔️]

I can't imagine being cut off! What a nightmare! LOL

[Carrie]

I asked that question the other day to my gr friends. I don't have that many downloaded onto to my kindle, I have most kept in my could. In my could however I have like 6000 or so, most are freebies. It's a sick addiction those freebies. I have a bunch of books in calibrie too, books I bought or freebies from other sites like smashwords, AAR, etc.

[Beatrice]

Around 800+ something. lol

[Ravencrantz]

There's no such thing as too many books. Even on an eReader.

[Kel (Faerie-bookworm)]

Raven wrote: "There's no such thing as too many books. Even on an eReader."

I agree, no such thing as too many. :D

[MaryAnn]

Every time I see a freebie that I might POSSIBLY be interested in I select it.

Getting cut off would be a nightmare. I have to have my book fix! LOL

[Carrie]

There's a cut off limit? I didn't know that.

[MaryAnn]

I haven't reached the limit yet. I'm assuming its when I run out of space on my iPad. I do have to admit that I deleted a bunch of music to make more room for books. iPhone now holds all the music. :)

Is there a 12 step progream for this!? LOL

[Carrie]

Wow, you have over 10,000 books in your cloud??

[MaryAnn]

Wow, Sarah! I don't feel so bad for my 3500 right now!

Do you see all 10,000 on your Cloud tab with the down arrow and then you download them as you go?

[Amy]

I'm only at 1,600/1,700 - but I'm always looking for new books!!

[MaryAnn]

OK, I have the same problem with the Kindle app sometimes. It gets overwhelmed! :)

I can't say no to the freebie either! I like to have options. :)

[Alana ~ The Book Pimp]

4,346 is my current number... that's just in Amazon.

I have another 2,000+ in Calibre (from Smashwords, and review books, All Romance... etc.)

[Sheri, Bookworm]

I just went through my kindle (took forever!) and deleted off a bunch of books. I figured I had had them forever and haven't read them yet, I'm most likely not going to. I kept some that still sounded interesting, but I knocked it down to 145.

[w :)]

Raven wrote: "There's no such thing as too many books. Even on an eReader."

Ha! As they say: You took the very words out of my mouth! Lol

[Lydia]

I had way too many on my first kindle and could not deal with it. I need to have things organised or visually in front of me like a bookshelf! I've a second kindle now and try and keep it limited and store the rest. I download one book at a time (which is difficult!) but it helps me keep it organised as when I get a new one, I can store and old one.

[Trent]

I have a ton of iBooks. I think around 200 or 300.

[Sheri, Bookworm]

As long as you have the books downloaded on your Kindle you can read them anywhere, even withotu wifi. To move a book from the Archives (where you would keep most of them you are not reading) is what you need the wifi for.

[Tasha]

MissyDevoursDelishReads wrote: "LOL be careful with those freebies! On my Amazon Kindle (the free downloadable app) I could only have about 2400 then they cut me off lol no more room :-)"

Cut off, oh no, tell me it isn't so. I currently have over 2300 books downloaded on my iPad with the kindle app.

[Elle]

I'm in the same boat as Sheri! I used to have over 2000 but knocked it down to just over 500 now. I have other people who use my Amazon account too for their Kindles so a pile of books on there aren't even 'mine'

[Jackie]

I have 800ish on my Kindle, and I'm overwhelmed by the amount. 99% of the books on there are free and I don't remember what they're about. LOL I gotta stop doing that. haha

[Jilleen]

I have no idea how many ebooks I have (a lot). I archive them once I read them so they aren't physically 'on' my device, so I only keep maybe 10 that are ones I'm going to read or re-read active at a time. That way I don't have to scroll through or search to find my books!

[Ashley]

I have about 3200 on my kobo and have only read about half of them I get a lot of books from authors to review and so on kobo u can organize them by making shelves and u can see them all or u can select a shelf and see which ones u want to read there

[Ralica]

I actually try to stay away from the free stuff unless it's a book I really want to read :) I have ereader and 99% of my books are epub. I have memory sticks (8 GB each)for my phone and ereader and all my books are synchronized in all devices so I can read anything anytime (and PC as well ofc). So I manage my books less than 300 at the moment and these are only books that I actually intend to read. I am really amazed how many books you guys have :) makes mw feel like an amateur LOL.

[Rick]

Because I hate the kindle fire bookshelf I prefer to only keep 20-25 books on it. I use calibre to organize books and have several hundred on my PC.

[Trent]

I have a lot of iBooks that I attend to read. I have almost all the books that are on the usa today chart on my ipad.

[Cat]

I don't know how many there are on my Kindle, but it is a lot. I got a message the other day that said I was low on device memory (first gen fire) so I pushed a bunch of them to the cloud. I love freebies too, but I am most addicted to e-galleys from NetGalley and Edelweiss.

[MaryAnn]

Yes, I agree with being addicted to NetGalley and Edelweiss. I have too many waiting for review though. It actually gets stressful!

[Cat]

I know! I have over 200 waiting and it seems like I never have enough time to do anything but check for more. Maybe if I finally learn to speed read?

[MaryAnn]

I always end up feeling bad when I don't like one of the books and have to do a negative review when they gave it to me for free. I know its the way it works and I do give negative reviews if that's how I feel about the book, but I know if I were the author it would be tough to have something negative said about something I poured my heart and soul into.

[w :)]

MaryAnne wrote: "... but I know if I were the author it would be tough to have something negative said about something I poured my heart and soul into."

I know! I do try to keep my reviews positive if it was free, if I didn't like it I usually just say it wasn't my type, which is usually true so all safe there. If it was bad grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc....

[Sannie]

My kindle keyboard and kindle app on iPad and iPhone, and the iBooks app... I have 7000+ :3 oops

[MaryAnn]

I'm glad to hear someone else is worse than me! LOL I went a little nuts a couple of years ago when I first got my iPad and now I'm wading through all the freebies I'll never read...

[Michael]

Five.

Any more than that, and I get confused, and just end up buying a new Kindle so I can start again.

[Donna]

Kel (Bookworm) wrote: "Raven wrote: "There's no such thing as too many books. Even on an eReader."

I agree, no such thing as too many. :D"

Can I say "AMEN!!"

[A.L.]

400 plus. :)

[Emma]

I must have downloaded a 100 to my Kindle in the past few months - don't know how I'm going to get through my TBR list ;)

[Raven]

40 from last year and 20 so far from this year. Not counting the various library books I add/delete each month.

[Lizzy]

I have about 800. I'm trying not to download more than one a day now...but I keep breaking that promise.

[PepperP0t]

I use the memory card in both my Sony & my Nook. i love looking thru them when I'm selecting something new to read, its almost like going to the book store