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Originally Posted by Tarana
Not to turn the screw in the wound, but flash drives would have saved your books. I just bought a 128 Sandisk gig flash drive for $20. Storage is cheap. I bought 2 so that I can alternate them (use them to store my ebooks offsite at sisters). These also store my audiobooks that were not purchased at Audible.
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That's essentially what I do. USB flash drives are cheap and getting cheaper. I have a 7 port USB hub on my desktop with a variety of flash drives plugged into it. Stuff I want to preserve gets backed up to them.
I use Calibre to manage my eBook library. The main library lives on the desktop, but is periodically synced with a flash drive. Aside from being a backup, it's portable. Calibre is installed on multiple machines, and if I travel and add stuff while traveling, I can store it to the flash drive, and then sync that to the desktop to update the master library when I'm home.
I keep some stuff on the cloud, but that's more a matter of having it available from where I might be, and allowing access to others for collaborative projects.
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Dennis