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Originally Posted by taosaur
It's been a long time since I even thought about my ebook library. I have thousands of books in Calibre, but haven't touched any of them in ages. Once upon a time I scoffed at those who got all their books through Amazon, but now I am 100% that guy. Most of them are library loans, but the process is the same: I say "Gimme!" and it shows up on my Kindle. Most of my audiobooks are the same thing through either Audible or Overdrive. Same goes for pretty much all media: music, movies, shows, comics. I used to be all about carrying around a local collection of all of the above, but now I walk around with my head in the cloud  |
It's nice having media in the cloud, I use both dropbox and iCloud myself, however I also like having my media available for those times where I'm not connected. For example, I download my audiobooks and specific playlists to my car iTouch so I can listen in the car without worrying about connectivity. Streaming is fine at home, not so good on the road when I'm using my cellular data plan, or am driving in an area where the coverage is a bit spotty.
I downloaded all my music, movies, TV shows, ebooks and audiobooks to my main computer, so I can get at them whenever I want. I have plenty of capacity, so why not be safe rather than sorry. Cloud services are just as likely to go belly up, or be dropped by a company as any other service.