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Originally Posted by darryl
Great decision. It means you will no longer be "locked-in" to any one "ecosystem". It also gives you some measure of protection from what may happen with any one vendor. At least the books you have bought are on your own hardware unencumbered. Like Zod I regard working with Calibre and Apprentice Alf as not only trivial but necessary. However, there are many people who are very happy being locked-in to one Vendor and don't want to do anything more than one-click at Amazon and open their ereader.
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Yeah, those Kindle Manga models for $90 on Woot were tempting me to try a Kindle. But even if I bought one, I'd still download all my Kindle books and strip the DRM. I am a rereader and like having easy, guaranteed* access to all the books I bought.
*as guaranteed as an electronic file can be, anyway.
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One practical tip. Most books delivered to the Voyage by Amazon are now in kfx format. Calibre only works well with KF8 files, which usually have .azw3 file extensions. The easiest way to get a kf8 format in your circumstances is to go to content and devices on Amazon and download the book concerned for transfer via usb. Of course, many if not all of the ebooks you have may well be kf8. Just look for the .azw3 extension.
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Yeah, I use an older version of Kindle For PC to download my books. I use 1.17 (available
here for PC)
First thing, make sure to go to Tools > Options and turn off automatic updates!
Kindle for PC lets me right click on the cover and select download. I can download books as fast as I can click them.