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Old 09-01-2011, 12:02 AM   #367
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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.
That's why you run the calibre web server so you can have personal access to your library from anywhere. You can probably also use something as simple as pogoplug too.

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