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One issue about wanting to carry your library with you aside from the convenience of having them all available is organization. Yes, in most cases I can redownload any book I want from Amazon but the biggest problem is finding that book. Say I remember a book I read several years ago, I don't remember the title or the author, just a bit of the plot or subject. Slogging through Amazons archive page by page through 4000 or so books hoping to recognize it would be a pain. With reasonable memory and a file system catagorizing books by genre, series, ect it could cut the search down to something reasonable. I've only had my reader a couple years and only have ~1000 books. If I had had one since I was a child I would by now have many thousands. The organization problem is bad now in ten years it will be a real problem. Except for the read once and toss people I suppose. Those sort have no need to keep their books at all once they've read them so since they'd never have a need to use Amazon's unuseable archive it wouldn't be a problem - for them.
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