New Personal Document Archiving

[Synamon]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

A bonus is I can remove these ebooks from Calibre and reclaim back that space. Granted though it is only about 100MB of space.

Do you have a local backup of the books somewhere else?

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by Synamon

Do you have a local backup of the books somewhere else?

You mean something that I would trust more than Amazon? No.

BOb

[Blossom]

I would back them up on Disc at least. I keep multiple backup of my books. Dropbox, Externals and Discs.

[caleb72]

Do you think Amazon is still committed to including Kindle Android App access to personal documents?

I can see that they now advertise that it works with the iPhone/iPad apps, but not Android yet.

The only reason I would find this service desirable is if I could sync non-Amazon files across my devices/apps which is the one thing I can't do.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I would back them up on Disc at least. I keep multiple backup of my books. Dropbox, Externals and Discs.

They will stay on my dropbox until I need the space.

however, all of these books I could also re-download from the place I originally bought them on demand. So, that could also be considered a backup.

BOb

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by caleb72

Do you think Amazon is still committed to including Kindle Android App access to personal documents?

I can see that they now advertise that it works with the iPhone/iPad apps, but not Android yet.

The only reason I would find this service desirable is if I could sync non-Amazon files across my devices/apps which is the one thing I can't do.

I'd also like to see them support personal documents in the Cloud Reader.

However, I can't use sync since I share my Amazon account with my Wife/Kids. In the event that we read the same book... (not often but it happens) syncing messes us up.

I keep hoping Amazon will create sync groups so you can specify certain devices among which you want stuff synced. for example, I could put my Kindle/Phone/CloudReader into a group to sync with each other only.

BOb

[sadievan]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I would back them up on Disc at least. I keep multiple backup of my books. Dropbox, Externals and Discs.

I do something similar. Dropbox, External HD and Flash Drive.

Carol

[bwaldron]

The Android app was updated today and now supports the Personal Documents feature.

[zooterkin]

Originally Posted by markdek

This is an on-going issue.......I talked to/email Amazon w/ some suggestions to make Pers. Docs. more flexible...give'em your feedback.

For now, I'm manually deleting "news" I don't want on Pers Docs.........not a great solution.

Is there any efficient way to do this? I've just noticed (after the latest update to the Android Amazon client) that I have over 300 old news updates from Calibre. The "Manage Your Kindle" page at Amazon shows only 15 at a time, and only lets you delete one at a time. Is there any quicker option than this? And is there a way to stop news from Calibre being stored in the first place (but not other personal documents)? I read through this thread, and didn't spot the answers to those questions, but apologies if they were there and I missed them.

[miguel1626]

I've two wishes: (1) that they would integrate the personal docs feature with Amazon Cloud Drive [emailing books is awkward] (2) That Amazon Cloud Reader supported personal docs. Then I would give up ePub for good...

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by miguel1626

I've two wishes: (1) that they would integrate the personal docs feature with Amazon Cloud Drive [emailing books is awkward] (2) That Amazon Cloud Reader supported personal docs. Then I would give up ePub for good...

I have these same wishes as well.

BOb