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Originally Posted by oj829
Which it never is/does, thanks to tools, Calibre, Dropbox, and the fact that I don't buy any media from Apple.
Not sure what's so hard to understand about creating a book acquisition workflow - which works for me - which targets using the software I like, and doesn't fret about the vendors I don't buy from.
Calibre is already central to my book acquistion/distribution workflow. I don't get what you're so upset about.
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The fact that you seem to have a problem with Amazon:
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Originally Posted by oj829
3) Low hurdle to "tooling" my Kobo purchases. I occasionally read "tooling" chatter from Kindle owners and I'm frankly horrified at the idea of spending that much time trying to read my books and retain copies of what I've "bought" until _I_ decide I no longer have the need/space/time for them.
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You seem to be trying to spread the delusion that Amazon somehow makes it harder to read their books than Kobo does. And again here:
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I'm just saying that when I had to decide on a workflow which would allow me to buy ebooks without worrying about Mothership Servers going away, or publishers getting into a snit and yanking access, the Kindle path was not a good fit for me. Maybe that will change in the coming months once Adobe brings the RMSDK10 hammer down, and I will find myself retooling my workflow and Kindling exclusively. I'd rather not, but who knows...?
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So, in what way is Amazon a worse offender? Kobo can do the same thing, you know.... and is far more likely than Amazon to go out of business, and thus to turn off their servers. I assume that is why you save your books in calibre, so... why can't you do the same thing for Kindle books?