[Catew]

Thanks -- it looks like Calibre is the thing I need to look into. It helps to know where to start.

I don't really need to organize the books, true, BUT...I have two kids and a husband, all with Kindles on my account. I get interrupted a lot, which means I start books and have to pick them back up all the time. I have always had stacks of "dead tree" books around to choose from, and went kindle to avoid the storage issues, but now I find that I'm drowning in potential reads, some of which I've started and some I got free for some "desperate" day, and there are some that I bought that I really wanted to read 4 months ago and was really busy then and so they are now subsumed under others...I hope this sounds familiar to someone.

I guess there's no way to avoid getting the house in order, so to speak, and I guess I'd better start sooner rather than later. Losing the DRM is a nice side benefit. I'll look into that while I'm at it. Thanks -- any additional input more than welcome and appreciated!

(Forgot to add: thanks for suggesting that I hook the old kindle up and back it up to the PC. All the keys are dead and I can't even turn it off, but it still had charge enough that I was able to back up the /documents subdirectory.)