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Originally Posted by pchrist7
Hi chilady1 !
Your original post actually helped me getting "paranoid" ! 
(Ahh well - the firmware upgrade was the biggest trigger-what if ? )
It might be possible for me in the future to buy the PaperWhite thingy.
But ... it's a touchy thingy , eeww
(well in other situations I definately DON't mind the touchy concept  )
A backup/recovery plan was needed !
So , itīs here.
Hope it works out ok.
What did you do ?
Leave the spare "blank" or did you copy everything from K3.primary to K3.spare ?
Just wondering
How to keep these 2 babies either in sync, or absolutely different (calibre)
Cheers, |
First, let me apologize if my paranoia spilled over and created paranoia for you. LOL! That was surely not my intent.
To answer your questions on what did I do with the spare. I left it blank and kept in charged until such time as it was called into ACTION! Once my original KK with 3G died (a painful death) - the KK WiFi only to the rescue.
Plugged it into Calibre, downloaded the books that were on my original KK (I have a custom column that lets me know what is on my Kindle. I know when you plug your device into Calibre, it reads what is on the Kindle. I just replicate that column so when the device IS NOT plugged in - I can see the same thing). This was a life saver.
Off I went - back up reading with about a 2 hour interruption time. This includes the time it took me to get from my Mother's house where my Kindle died and re-load all the books from my original Kindle onto the spare.
I don't manage two Kindles at the same time. For me, that is too much! So I don't sync the books between the two. I am only using one, and the other spare just sits until needed. Hope that helps.
P.S. Once they stop making the Kindle Keyboard (my fav) - I will probably use a regular Kindle $69.00 for my spare.