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Old 12-21-2010, 01:02 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by abookreader View Post
Personally this is what I do.

I have an old Kindle 1 that doesn't even function anymore but I've kept its serial number registered to my Amazon Account since it was never up-datable past the firmware where the DeDRM script wouldn't work. Kindle 4 PC books would work for this also. I've kept the K1 around because I worry about Amazon someday forcing updates to Kindle 4 PC which might knock out the ability to remove DRM.

Every book I buy I go to Amazon and click transfer via computer and select that old Kindle as the machine I want the book DRMd for. Amazon sends a file to my computer and I immediately put that into Calibre. Calibre removes the DRM and also renames the file and saves it under a folder for the Author. I delete the original DRMd file from my computer download file then - no need to keep it around since the K1 it is DRMd to doesn't even work.

Then I click send to eReader on Calibre for my K3.

My computer gets backed up nightly to an external hard drive so I get a back-up of my Calibre there in case my laptop hard drive fails. Then I also have an online back-up service which gives me a 3rd copy out of my house.

So for my books I have

Amazon Cloud (or other retailers)
Calibre on my laptop
Calibre folders on my External Hard Drive
Calibre folders in my Online Back-up Service

and whatever books happen to be on my Kindle (all un-DRMd Mobi Files)
Thanks for your answer. This is kind of what I do now. Download to k4pc and then import to Calibre to 'free up'. Back up everything to external sources.

So you send your DRM free books to your kindle?

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