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Originally Posted by OakIris
I am assuming - there's that bad word, lol - from your statement that emailing the non-Amazon material to my Kindle will "force" Amazon to keep a copy of them on their servers, or am I confusing syncing with backing up?
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I don't use the feature myself but yes, that's pretty much how it'll work. If you email it to your Kindle, it'll appear in your Amazon cloud storage (you are not really forcing anything, emailing your books/documents to your Kindle is a feature Amazon provide).
You are storing it there as a back-up I suppose, but you would have to connect and sync with the Amazon server to download the book onto your Kindle to read it. And it's probably really only worthwhile doing this with your non-Amazon books if you want to sync your books between different devices (so that you can read the same book on different devices). If you just want to use it as a back-up, you'd be better using Calibre and either keeping your books backed-up on your computer or cloud storage like dropbox. That's what I do, and then the Amazon cloud storage is just an additional, automatic back-up of my Amazon books.