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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
When an eBook is less than 1MByte (no embedded fonts), I wonder why would it be a nuisance to carry a SD or USB stick with, that has probably more space than the cloud has, and doesn't ask for network (WiFi or LTE), in vacations even for free (as for roaming costs) and so on. And it doesn't depend on the whims of a provider (be it Apple or any other) and it's also secure.
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Amazon stores an unlimited amount of space for ebooks that you purchase from them, so no storage worries there. And I believe they will archive about 5GB of your personal documents that you send using your Kindle email thingy. As far as network access is concerned in relation to vacations, why not make it easy on yourself and simply download the couple of books that you are going to read on your Kindle ahead of time?
And you are ALWAYS subject to the whims of a service provider. If not a mobile network provider than an ISP at your house. I mean... you can't have ebooks delivered to your devices by magic... some sort of provider is required at some point!
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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
You loose that stick, got another one for peanuts and reload it from the home archive. Yes, the stick or SD is only a "working copy"  |
The cloud works much the same. Lose your device or have it stolen, you just deactivate that one and activate/sync up your new device with whatever stuff you want on it. And you can do that even if you are nowhere near your home archive, as long as you can get some internet.
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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
While it may be luring now, clouds are nothing else than a storage in someone else's house. You're bound by his rules, to the degree he'd choose to implement. He can even use your goods from that deposit, dump them (locking your account), or let other people have access to them.
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Depends on what kind of cloud service we are talking about. Something like Google Drive is a server "elsewhere" that you don't control, but they don't own your data that you store in your Drive, and they can't use your files or give other people access to them.
If you are talking something like Netflix, well... you never own any of that, you just "rent" access to their library.
For something like Amazon storing the ebooks you license from them in an online cloud archive, well... they stipulate the rules in their TOS. And you are allowed to download the actual book files to keep a local cache.