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Originally Posted by Blossom
Amazon wouldn't never
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I assume that double negative wasn't intended to mean they might do that.
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Originally Posted by Blossom
do that but the servers could go up in smoke and their back ups or they could be hacked so it's just best to keep a backup in Calibre
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It's always best to keep backups of everything on your computer. It would be inconvenient to lose my ebook library, but there's other stuff on the computer it would be a lot more damaging to lose.
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Originally Posted by Blossom
but I trust Amazon never to do what B&N has done.
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I don't. Until B&N did this, they have always been far friendlier to the consumer who wants to stroll outside the walled garden than Amazon. Far, far friendlier. Amazon wants to be the only source of everything for everyone, and they want that to be because there is no other place
to buy anything. They're smarter than B&N, though, so they don't do stuff that produces the exact opposite result of what they want.
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Originally Posted by Blossom
The thing is keeping the book in Kindle 4 PC isn't really necessary as if you ever have to reformat or your K4PC get deregistered you have to redownload them all over again. K4PC won't even run with 12,000 books. Mine started crashing at 900 before I lost access whenK4PC deregistered itself years ago. I have since then use the method I use now. I keep my library in Calibre and on the Cloud.
B&N I never trusted them but I never thought they would do something so stupid.
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And that is the only real difference, all of a sudden, between Amazon and B&N: Amazon is a lot smarter. But both have their own financial interests at heart, far more than yours or mine. And the moment that Amazon feels they can make more money by turning off downloads, they'll turn off downloads. And their ecosystem is set up to make that easier for them to do, where B&N's was designed from the start to be more friendly to hacking.