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Originally Posted by VirgoGirl
... The ONLY reason for me to buy the Kindle is because I want stability and decent customer service. I doubt very highly Amazon will abandon Kindles entirely, EVER. Yes, I'd have to convert my epubs to mobi or azw3 (which as I saw are NOT smaller), but I'll do that for stability and support.
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I get it. Now you even have me seriously considering that.
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Originally Posted by VirgoGirl
... More logically based argument, when I accidentally damaged my previous XHD, I lost all the ebooks that were NOT on my micro SD card (luckily that was not a lot). I simply removed the card from the reader and copied over what I had to my laptop, then to the new XHD (at the time Kobos did not automatically delete the book from the card as it does now). As I now have about 12G worth of ebooks that can't be done, but I keep redundant copies on 3 regular SD cards, my laptop AND two 2T XHDs. And DVDs.
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Backups are good. But what if your house blows up by an anti-ebook terrorist while your family is on vacation? (Edit: oh, never mind. You'd probably have your sd cards and readers with you on the trip.)