Thread: Thinking About a kindle - But What Of My Existing Library
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Old 04-22-2012, 07:55 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn View Post
Most Cloud services offer you 5 GB of storage for free (as competition heats up that is likely to increase) and 5 GB is probably more than enough for most e-book libraries. The convenience is that you can access it from anywhere at anytime, e-book files are generally small so they are fast downloads.
Just like you I keep my library on a networked TB HDD and a USB stick, but if I'm on the road I might not have access to those, but I will have access to my Cloud library.
True, but you can easily put 5 GB on a SD card that you can buy for less than € 10,- and you don't even have to worry about connectivity.
As for using the Cloud for general backup, most people who require such a backup have considerably more data, like mp3s, videos, photos, scanned documents - probably hundreds of GB of data. What purpose is just 5 GB supposed to serve, quite apart from the very considerable time that would be required for the upload?
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