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Originally Posted by jackie_w
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.
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Based on Amazon sales it looks to me like you are part of a small minority of e-reader users seeing as how Kindle has the majority of the e-reader market in every English language country I could find data on. If personal cloud storage is hosted by anyone then is it any more secure than Amazon or Kobo cloud storage? Based on the list of hacked personal data bases my guess is that it is not.