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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.
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You can. Calibre will handle EPUB->AZW3 perfectly, as long as you don't go and try to convert gargantuan books with 20,000 pages like the Delphi Classics. (And even those can be handled if need be, by using KindleGen, and then extracting the AZW3 from there. I actually made a small script for that, posted somwhere on the forum...)
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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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It works. Perfectly. I've been doing it for 2 years. The only two issues you may run in to are:
1. Huge books. (Like... >= 7500 pages). They may not convert. It can be circumvented by using Kindlegen and KindleUnpack.
2. Huge fonts. (Like >= 85 pixels high). They may not show up correctly and show as text of normal size. I don't know if this is a Calibre/Conversion issue, or a Kindle/AZW3 issue. I've only encountered this with the chapter headings of Feedbooks.com public domain books.
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As for the argument of sticking thousands of ebooks onto a reader or sd card vs computers and cloud storage, everything you say makes perfect sense. BUT, what you are arguing against is an urge or NEED to have that many on the reader or card, kind of a mental issue - I fully admit to having a form of OCD about having a lot of books on my reader. In *my* case, it doesn't make sense, it's not logical, but as with other forms of mental illness it's not something you can convince someone out of. If it were, my mother's house wouldn't look like something out of "Hoarders". I'm just fortunate mine runs towards loading up ebooks onto my reader and not my house full of crap.
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I've seen some episodes of the Dutch version of Hoarders. That can be... disturbing. Someone cramming 20.000 books into a house, or worse, having saved every (!) daily (!) issue of a newspaper from 1945 (subscription start) to 2012 (hoarders), all stacked in an appartment. The floor, and ceiling of the appartment below was starting to crack
