Thread: No More Free Amazon Cloud?
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Old 03-27-2015, 05:41 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by Josieb1 View Post
The whole point of sending non Amazon books to the Cloud (Amazon's servers) is Whispersync, which I use daily. Without that option a kindle is of no more use than a Kobo.

Its quite apt this coming this week as I am begining to realise Amazon is becoming quite insidious.
Yes I do mean insidious, its meaning is 'operating or proceeding in an inconspicuous or seemingly harmless way but actually with grave effect'

I am the exact type of customer Amazon wants. I have a Kindle ereader and a Fire tablet, I have Prime, I have an Audible account and as long as everything works okay its hunky dorey, but the minute something goes wrong you realise how dependant you are on their infastructure and how uselss they really are.

I've spent weeks going back and forth with both companies over techincal issues with a Fire HD6 and a HDX7and neither company can solve the problems. Its been banging my head against a brick wall time.

Amazon is getting too big and too cocky now and long term I really don't think this is a good thing.
As far as I can tell, sending documents to the *kindle* cloud still works now, and from what I was told by a customer service person at Amazon, nothing is going to change with that. What IS changing is the Cloud drive, which is more akin to Dropbox, and will allow you to store any and all different kinds of documents, and is NOT accessible from an e-ink Kindle.

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