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Originally Posted by graycyn
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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For me, I like being able to have all of my books available in the cloud because if I go somewhere without my reader, I can download the book to my phone and just pick up where I left off. I like to switch back and forth between devices--having all of my books in my Kindle cloud, I can do that with no problem. Send the book one time, and I can have it on any device. I also don't care about covers on my devices--I only use list view.
Also, when sending to the Kindle cloud, I don't go through any of the steps you mention in your post. I import into Calibre, then use Calibre to send them to the cloud. My readers are also always connected to the internet anyway, because I need the location sync to work.
Shari