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The vast majority of users are perfectly capable of stocking their Kindles with a sufficient number of books to tide them over until they get back to their PC-based libraries. Rather than it being a decision by Amazon to push people toward cloud storage, I simply see it as Amazon recognizing the fact that the bulk of their customers are served very well by the amount of local storage provided. So why make the device more expensive just to cater to the exceptions rather than the rule? |
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04-17-2014, 03:56 PM | #17 | |
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By the way DO you know how to move a book from calibre to your Kindle? Calibre can create a much better catalog than Amazon's archive but what I really need is the ability to select a book in that catalog and have it sent to my kindle. If I could do that I wouldn't feel such a need to keep my books with me. Last edited by crossi; 04-17-2014 at 04:01 PM. |
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But I didn't say cheaper, just better. Price isn't the only metric in build vs buy. The issues listed above were issues of trust. If you don't trust the provider then doing your own is far better even if more expensive. |
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Trust is the fundamental basis on which the business world operates, and any supplier who was not trustworthy would not stay in business very long. It takes a long time to gain a good reputation, but only an instant to lose it.
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You can build your own cloud storage using free open sourced softwares. That way you are in control of everything.
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The cloud storage that Amazon puts your books on is free, and will probably always be free. Plus, who cares if the NSA or someone else knows that I have a copy of Pride and Prejudice, or The Body Farm? Security is a non-issue, as far as I'm concerned. Millions (possibly) of other Amazon customers do, as well. Plus, Amazon is not actually storing individual copies of books for me, just a pointer the their (one and only) copy of the book. Unless, of course, it is a personal document. Again, anything really sensitive, I wouldn't be putting on the cloud, anyway. Like top-secret documents, etc. or anything I didn't want anyone to know that I had. I wouldn't even put it on my Kindle, probably, in that case, since Amazon could "see" anything on there.
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I would buy other devices over Kindle if the Kindle has less storage or no SD slot.
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04-18-2014, 01:24 PM | #25 |
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The Kindle still has plenty of storage, for hundreds of books. How many do you need at one time?
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"These Kindles go to eleven."
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