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Originally Posted by pilotbob
It's strange though.. I wonder when you buy kindle books (if you do) do you d/l them right to your kindle... or do you download them to your PC, then side load them with USB?
BOb
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Without a doubt, the vast majority of my Amazon purchases get side-loaded. I browse and buy on my computer... download to my PC... take the precautions I deem necessary to fully backup my purchase, and then transfer it to my Kindle for reading.
As I said, I'm not ragging on anyone. Just pointing out the irony of the resources and distances involved in getting a personal document onto the Kindle—that is, in all likelihood, a few feet from you.
And while I recognize the validity of having an online backup, and the "anywhere availability" that that backup provides (even if I don't utilize them), I just think it would make more sense to be able to
push sideloaded documents to your archive from the device itself. The requirement to send the document as an email attachment to get it into your archive seems a bit counter-intuitive to me. Especially when "no computer necessary" has always been one of the Kindle's selling points.
I understood it when the service was used mainly for conversion, but now that there are a multitude of ways to get documents into a mobi format, it seems a little silly. There's still a computer (or some other internet connected device) involved in sending the email attachment, so I fail to see the real convenience provided (with the exception of the unattended emailing of web content to your Kindle).
But, as always... just making observations, and it's certainly no skin off my back.
