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Old 05-12-2011, 05:47 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by CRussel View Post
And what happens if your SD card decides to corrupt itself? (And yes, I have seen that happen!)
Well, since you ask, I swap out one of my back-up SD cards. I am not saying SD cards are any better back up than anything else. I am just saying that if a Kindle dies, you have absolutely, positively, lost anything that is side loaded and not backed up. If a Kindle dies, you will also have to go through the process of reloading and re-collecting everything that is not Amazon.

With my other readers, I never lose anything and in the event of a reader death, a card swap takes a minute. Kindle will always take me a lot more time to restore and adds a level of risk that requires additional back up. Not a deal killer, obviously, just an annoyance.
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