I get you. In cases where you have that many cards, that's definitely not for you.

My case is rather 2-3 quotes from a book I just read of 5ish articles per week which I find interesting and don't want to forget (so it will email them again to me after some time so I can reread). Thanks for the feedback!

Anki scales down to a few questions, and is a local-only app requiring no infrastructure for mail delivery.

A book you read will eventually turn to twenty books you read, and then you have 40 to 60 quotes and so it goes.