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Originally Posted by taustin
Quote:
Originally Posted by Blossom
There's no need to keep Kindle books on your PC unless you are reading them or use them for reference. You can download them when needed from Amazon.
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Two weeks ago, that was true of Barnes & Noble, too.
Things can change. Without notice. For reasons that have nothing to do with giving a damn about the customer. |
You're missing the point, Blossom was saying that keeping the books
downloaded through K4PC is not necessary -- if all your books are in calibre, then calibre is your backup (possibly multiply redundant backup, depending on how many places it is synced to) and there is no need to keep additional copies in K4PC.
K4PC should be used solely as a pipeline to move books into calibre. My ideal setup (if I didn't have a Kindle Touch) would have them automatically sent to K4PC when bought, which is the default if you don't have another Kindle, and whenever K4PC is opened, it will sync and download any books which the Amazon servers have queued for delivery; then calibre will auto-add from the My Kindle Content folder, and
delete them from K4PC in order to prevent duplication, because K4PC is nothing to me but a
3rd-party pseudo-plugin to calibre for downloading from Kindle Cloud.
(I have a Kindle Touch though so I use that instead, together with a complex backup regimen which encompasses annotations and other weird stuff.)