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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Sideloading content seems to be important for most members in mobileread - and this seems to be one of the main reasons if buying Kobo over Kindle.
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Really?
You can sideload Kindles as easily as anything else. From amazon or other sites.
I do it all the time on my mother's KT.
As most other veterans of the PDA age, I keep my archival disinfected books in Calibre libraries organized by format: mobi, epub, and lit. (No pdfs or Adept files allowed to pollute my system.) Multiple backups on my PC, external drive offsite, and my home network NAS. Plus whatever resides in the readers. I cross convert everything. (Except the BAENs, those I just download in the three formats.)
In the old days I only bought lits; these days I buy DRM-free and Kindle. And, as a further backup I have an old Kindle2 for which I can download files to the PC for sideloading. (And disinfecting.) As long as Amazon supports the K2 I don't have to fret over K4PC changes.
Not sure what else I can do to protect my investment but I try to keep up with changes in tech. I might put up an encrypted archive on OneDrive one of these days but not just yet...