Thread: B&N removed download option on all books in "My Nook" library
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Old 12-03-2014, 05:07 PM   #720
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Originally Posted by Fbone View Post
Option #3 assumes K4PC will be around in the future and files accessible. Amazon's ebook business is built around the Kindle and therefore works best owning one. Considering what B&N and Kobo did to their PC programs Amazon may not be far behind.
Seriously?!?! Option #3 is the same Option #3 on Windows, and the singular point I have been trying to make this entire time is that the exact same options present on Windows are present on linux as well.

You have a disagreement about the suitability of K4PC in general? Sure, we can discuss that too. In which case, I feel obliged to point out the following points:
  1. Amazon is not B&N or Kobo, this is in fact a marketing point. Amazon is famous for not giving a darn about what physical device you read Kindle books on, just so long as they can deliver a Kindle Software Package to said device -- because Amazon recognizes, apparently, that the money is in selling you books, and hardware is just a way of making their books more tempting which is a means to an end, the end being book purchases.
  2. If Amazon emulated B&N and Kobo, surely that would mean making it difficult to access the books on an E-ink Kindle as well.
  3. And surely that would mean removing the download options from http://amzn.com/myk.
  4. If you have already Alfed your books (remember, that was kind of the whole point of the whole thing, the whole time?) then it is totally irrelevant if Amazon in future orphans K4PC. Because... at such time, one would simply get an E-ink Kindle (assuming they left the download options up, and I really do believe that would be shut down first, before the desktop app, ) and carry on where you left off.

Oh, and back to option #2 -- I am still baffled at the idea of backing up your books so you have control over them, but NOT DOING SO until you actually read the book.
Anyone here on MobileRead who has ever said three consecutive words about backing up your purchases, always votes for the back-them-ALL-up-now-before-it-is-too-late School of Thought... for precisely the reasons you just enumerated.
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