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Originally Posted by maximus83
What I do today: - Buy mostly Amazon Kindle ebooks due to selection and price. Download and liberate files with open source tools.
- Convert and manage the files in Calibre.
- Store the converted files in a cloud drive.
- Access them with android devices using 3rd party ereader apps.
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It does not matter who you buy the books from so long as you can remove the DRM. Your reasons for buying from Amazon are valid and remain valid.
And yes, Calibre with Apprentice Alf is the best solution I have found.
Forget the cloud drive except as a backup, preferably not the only one. Even the term "the cloud" is a marketing-friendly term for storing your files and even running applications from someone else's server. And the customer's rights are often ambiguous at best.
It doesn't matter how you access your books or what you use for purposes of "future-proofing". If your concern is privacy, Amazon certainly has access to your Kindle and collects information. Last I looked it is unclear what Amazon can do with sideloaded books and what information is kept, nor even whether books purchased fron them and disinfected are treated the same as other sideloaded books. But none of the larger retailers are any better, irrespective of format. Your reading habits are valuable. Baen and the like may be better. Also, remember that Android is probably the worst OS for privacy outside of IOS.
AZW3 or EPub? Once disinfected it makes little difference. There are open source applications which will read them both, including Calibre's viewer. But why choose? Disk space is cheap. Keep both formats within Calibre?
Finally, I would point out that Amazon is not a monopoly. It is simply the best and most successful ebook retailer by a country mile, arguably aided by the ineptness of much of its competition. It is certainly not the most "evil" of the ebook retailers, and is somewhat responsive when it makes mistakes, unlike, for instance, B & N.