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I think it is prudent to import all books to Calibre. However, I do understand those who don't. You are in the majority, and time is indeed precious. Personally I don't find it a lot of work to add books to Calibre. The most time consuming task seems to be the metadata. I find many purchased ebooks imported to Calibre are missing metadata, particularly a userful description. This is easily fixed but can take significant time if you have bought a number of books.
By far the easiest and least time consuming route where you can just read and not worry about anything else is to pick an infrastructure and just stick to it, Amazon being the most obvious example. I don't do that, but I am fine with it. I think Amazon is a great company and are doing a fabulous job in dragging the BPH's kicking and screaming into modern times, whilst at the same time giving readers and authors a much better deal. They are not generally "evil" in the Google sense, though they have had their moments, for example removing books from Kindle's without the owners permission. They are not perfect, but since this incident I want my books under my own control, which means in Calibre on my own computer and backed up.
I am not a fan of "the cloud", which is essentially a marketing term coined to sell a number of previously rejected older technologies plus a few newer ones. It has its uses, but I don't really trust my only copies of works to either it or its providers.
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