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Originally Posted by tlc
Ugh. That's a wrinkle, though obvious in hindsight. It makes me question my whole idea of managing still-DRMed books. (Does anyone do this?)?
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Originally Posted by cybmole
the only sensible place to store the DRMd versions woudd be on the Kindle device,a s that is the only place you can read them. [ unless u install kindle for PC/Mac and register that to same account, then you can store copies in a PC folder also ]
if you lose or break your reader, than any backup download copies will be useless anyway unless you break DRM. You'd be more likely to get a new amazon device then download new copies from your amazon cloud to that new device, which they will then be keyed to.
if you ever become one of those small number of unfortunates that Amazon decide to ban ( rightly or wrongly) - & there are horror tales of folks getting permanently banned by amazon, then you lose everything you've paid for unless you have "freed" copies.
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Originally Posted by tlc
Ugh. I really do want to avoid cracking the DRM unless forced. I guess I will - download them all and save them somewhere else, just in case, and
- keep track of them in calibre like people keep track of paper books -- metadata entries with no ebook.
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Each time I buy a book, I pick the same Kindle device for the initial "send to" destination. (I have never been able to just buy a book without specifying which device it will be sent to. Once every month or so, I connect the Kindle to my PC and copy all the files since the last time I copied.
I have a top level folder on my PC called "Kindle backups". I then created a folder for the specific device. It's this folder into which I copy the books from my Kindle. THEN, I use a special tag when I import these into Calibre, with the tag identifying the device.
When I lost my K3 (left it on an airplane!), I went into Calibre and deleted all the books for that device since my replacement K3 won't read any of the DRMed books for the original device.