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Originally Posted by shalym
But see, that's the thing--with Amazon, I can access my books from my reader natively, without using any horrible browser. (and in my opinion, the web browser in both my Kobo and my Kindles is horrible and pretty much unusable) I don't want to spend 10 minutes trying to open a web page on my e-ink reader. I want to be able to touch a button and connect to a list of books and download the ones I want, and only the ones I want. I want to be able to do this with books bought from anywhere, or books I've created myself, or documents/web pages that I've sent to my device to read later. I can do this with my Kindle, why can't I do it with my Kobo? In my opinion, this is really Amazon's killer feature, and it's what keeps me from getting rid of my Kindles. I had high hopes when I found out about the Pocket integration, then I realized that it only includes a very narrow definition of what is an "article" on a web site.
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For the most part, I keep all my edocuments on my Kobo so no need to do anything other than a quick search to locate a specific item. Currently I have a 32GB internal uSD card which is overkill since the only ebooks that live on the internal card are those that I have purchased from Kobo and a 32GB external uSD card which I use for all other documents so I don't see any reason not to keep all my edocuments onto the device. I do keep several copies of my library around (computer, local network storage and off-site backup*) so I see no real need for a cloud backup as well.
Admittedly, this does run into the issue that when I do a factory reset after too enthusiastically playing with the software, it take far too long (in my not so humble opinion) to rebuild the database.
*Offsite backup is currently a 3TB external hard drive that comes home for the weekend and taken back to work after the weekend backup of the NAS.
Regards,
David