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Originally Posted by Richwood
Unless you are paranoid about your reading habits, to me there is one big advantage that Kindle has. That is the ability to use email to send items to a kindle, which automatically also installs them in the Amazon cloud for the owner. That makes them available on all Amazon Kindle tablets and readers registered to that account. I just sent 80+ Mobi ebooks From Smashwords to my Kindle Voyage with "convert" in the emails subject line. All the files are now in the cloud and on my Voyage in AZW format.
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Whilst I have no problem with anyone who feels like you do, personally I have no interest whatsoever in either Amazon or Kobo storing my books for me. My central repository is calibre which IMO has far more features and flexibility than either of them.
Calibre Companion plus Dropbox/DropSync satisfies all my requirements for wireless transfer and auto-replication between Android devices.
I've never wanted to read books in the primitive MOBI format on any device when EPUB offers me better-looking books.
You don't need to be paranoid to dislike wi-fi on eink devices. It offers no benefits to me at all so it's permanently disabled on all of mine. I have no problem using USB cable to connect eink devices to calibre, although I believe some Kobo users successfully use its (rather basic) browser to wirelessly access books in their personal cloud storage.