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Old 11-14-2017, 02:30 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by shalym View Post
Exactly. The best thing about my Kindle is not having to connect it to my computer to put books onto it. Any books not purchased from Amazon get sent to my Kindle Cloud, and I can read them on any of my devices (except for my Kobo) without having to connect to my computer.

I'm also another one that doesn't like ADE--I used it once or twice many years ago, and decided that it's just not worth it. If I buy a DRM'd book, it's either from Amazon or Kobo, because I don't have to mess with Adobe. I used to buy from Barnes and Noble, but stopped when they made it harder to remove DRM.

Shari
Personally, I've never seen the problem with connecting a reader to a computer. Plug cable into reader, plug other end in to computer, copy/paste ebooks over, eject and unplug. Boom, done!

Or, emailing to Kindle ... Open browser, go to webmail, log in, hit compose, hit attach, browse computer for the file, wait for file to upload, when ready, attach, click send, log out of webmail, close browser. THEN, wait, you aren't done yet, because you still have to connect Kindle to WiFi and sync and disconnect. Only to get a book that doesn't have the cover show up because it's considered a personal document as opposed to a book....

The connect to computer is simpler and faster for me, especially if I want to transfer a large number of books at once. More so if books are large files.

The advantage of the Kindle cloud is the fact that you can sync notes and highlights. And that *is* the reason I keep a Kindle around for proofreading and put up with the whole emailing to Kindle bit. I like backup when I've made a zillion notes/corrections!

But for pleasure reading, I never make notes and highlights, so it's just so much easier to plug in, dump however many books on my Kobo, then get to reading.





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