subscribe to this blogThe problem with ebooks
The problem with ebooks is that its too easy to lose them. I recently bought an ebook, and now I have no idea in which directly I put it and I can't find it. Rather more difficult to lose a paper book. How do you solve this problem? Do you keep burning ebooks to a CD after you buy them? Give me some ideas.
9 Comments:
I have installed Google Desktop Search on my computer, so if I forgot where I put in a file, I just type a few possible words from that file and GDS fetches good results.
Maybe you should have it installed too :)
August 05, 2008 12:02 PM
Installing a desktop search software should solve your problem. I recommend Google desktop search.
August 05, 2008 2:02 PM
As soon as I get a ebook, I make sure to upload it to some online file storage site (mediafire.com).
Writing to CDs means, I have to keep track of that too.
August 05, 2008 2:22 PM
Strip DRM off your content as soon as you can, or better, obtain it DRM-free. No point willingly allowing someone to screw you in the long run.
August 05, 2008 3:41 PM
All the ebooks I get are DRM free. Desktop search is a good idea. But there is also the issue when you migrate computers. There is this ebook that I got a few years ago. Now I'm on a different computer. I backed it up somewhere.. but who knows where?
August 05, 2008 8:52 PM
this is y storage and warehousing is a vast topic in management.
i ve no idea, how a ebook will be( gueesing its similar to a pdf life) nor i ve idea about the GDS or the DRM things u guys are talking.
but, what i learned in my office is, naming and storing in separate folders whos's location is updated in a text file in the desktop, helps in finding any letter i want from any topic however old it is.
i might work.
if u think, i am making sense. ask me. i will help u out.
August 07, 2008 3:55 PM
Apart from Desktop Search, an online knowledge management portal or web based online files management system would be useful.
September 28, 2008 8:34 PM
Google Desktop always slows down your computer becasue of the continuos indexing.
"Find in Files" utility in most text editors (like EditPlus) is a good tool (i say this because the "dog search" in XP is bad, vista i havent tried).
Find in files allows you to search for a particualr word in any file with recursive sub directory option.
so with *.pdf (assuming ebook is a pdf) on c:\ will bring back everything, better than the OS search.
October 13, 2008 8:57 AM
How about actually storing the PDF in your Gmail account? I do that, just in case I lose some valuable ebook.
@Raz,
Yes, its a PDF file.
October 23, 2008 1:00 AM
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