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Originally Posted by tompe
Yes, for now it is rational to have the books on the reader. But very soon we will always be connected. But if memory is cheap there might be no reason to synchronize all you books to all your mobile devices. But conceptually the books should be stored in the cloud.
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The vast majority of the ebooks on my Sony aren't purchases; they're "converted documents." (Lots of fanfic. Lots and lots of fanfic.)
I don't think anyone's offering free cloud storage of every document every ebook fan cares to read. Gdocs is free shared cloud storage--but has sharp limits on sized of PDFs; it won't allow manga and other comic books.
Cloud storage of ebooks hits paranoia issues--which aren't small, and aren't going away; plenty of people don't trust Amazon or Google or B&N to store their data, with good reason. All three companies have been known to remove access to controversial materials... if I'm reading Wikileaks documents on my reader, is the cloud storage company going to come after me? It also hits security/privacy issues--can I safely read highly confidential documents from a cloud-accessible reader?
But setting those aside, wifi access isn't, and isn't going to be, universal. I travel to work on an underground train; I don't want my books to shut off when everyone's cellphones shut off. I want my books to work if I'm on vacation a hundred miles from civilization.