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Dear Community,

I apologize if this question has been asked before. I have looked around here, searched the next like crazy, but have not managed to find anything so far, hence I decided to join this forum, share my problem and ask this expert community for advice.

That's the situation:

For three years now I have owned a Kindle Oasis reader and have quite a few Amazon- and non-Amazon books on it, the latter bought in various online bookstores which I then successfully converted and uploaded onto my device with the help of Calibre (great program, by the way). So far everything has gone very smoothly, and I have been able to work a lot with my Kindle by annotating my books, underlining and highlighting sections, leaving extensive notes etc.

Recently, however, the Kindle has been behaving erratically (e.g, suddenly it takes one screenshot after the other, without me doing anything) and I would have to either reset or replace it entirely, Amazon tells me, to fix that issue. Again, all fine and not a problem as such -- if it were not for those tons of notes and annotations in non-Amazon books which I do not want to loose throughout the process. Hence my question:

How do I backup EVERYTHING that is currently stored on the device (including notes and annotations), save it on my harddrive, and import it then back once I have a new reader or the old one's technical issues have been fixed? Would anyone be able to give me some advice? I have contaced Amazon and they -- surprise, surprise -- have not been too helpful.

Any help somebody might be able to provide would be much appreciated.

With thanks,

Alexander