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Old 12-27-2022, 01:46 PM   #38
BrickyBrian
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
An eBook store sells ebooks. Kobo, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Smashwords/D2D, Google, Apple, Baen and ebooks.com etc all operate online stores selling books. You can go back and download what you bought before. Personal libraries they operate are an illusion. It's just a list of books you bought except on Amazon, where you can use Send To Kindle to give Amazon a copy forever. You can only send books that are NOT Kindle format and it does a worse job of conversion than Calibre. They could decide to scrap that storage any time. They've done it before. Madness to use "Send to Kindle".


No is the short answer.
Longer answer is it's crazy! It's possible to download DRM free ebooks (like from ebooks.com, or free from Gutenberg) and store them converted (messed up a bit and ONLY for download to Kindle) by "Send to Kindle", but not usually from Kobo or Google. Never from Apple, Barnes&Noble etc.


No. Apart from the slightly broken "Send To Kindle" which is inferior to your own conversion, storage and USB transfer, no Store does that. They are not "storing" copies of your books. They simply sell ebooks and let you download it again.


Calibre lets you search ebook stores. DON'T! It's main use is to store and manage copies of ebooks YOU ALREADY BOUGHT AND DOWNLOADED TO PC, not to device. Or Free ebooks. In about ten years of Calibre about 300 ebooks are bought and nearly 4,000 are free public domain titles.

“It's possible to store everything in Calibre”. Certainly Ebooks and PDFs.
You need to remove DRM to read an ebook on a different device to the one the sale was for, or convert it for a different brand of reader, or read on the PC or edit it. You can download with DRM and not remove it, but then you can only use the USB transfer to the exact serial number of ereader the book was bought for.

You still have to buy the ebooks from Kobo, Amazon, Smashwords/D2D, Google, Baen or ebooks.com and down load to PC. Forget Apple or Barnes&Noble, too awkward.

You also can download from a choice of almost 100,000 legal free public domain ebooks.
Many thanks for such a useful reply.
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