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Originally Posted by HarryT
Not if you prefer to load your own content, rather than download it directly from Amazon. Commercial eBooks can be a real mess, with missing covers, messed-up metadata, etc. What I prefer to do is to buy the book, transfer it to Calibre, tidy it up (make sure it has a proper cover, edit the metadata, etc) and then transfer it from Calibre to my Kindle. ie, I regard my Calibre library as my "master source" of eBooks, not the archive on Amazon.
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Which is exactly what I do, but completely negates the only real advantage the Kindle offers (direct access to a bookstore without having to go through a PC). Of course, my tidying up usually involves fixing the css and (far too often) correcting all the typos as I read through the book.