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Old 02-27-2023, 04:37 PM   #7
Georgie W
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You can easily be locked out by Amazon or have no Internet. It's not a backup because do you know their security & backup of that?

The Cloud is marketing of someone else's computer/server.

It's a copy, not a backup. Using Send to Kindle service it's not even a true copy but a conversion.
Agreed on all points. I have 3 (three) external hard drives that I back up to, one of which I keep in the car. No, I don't know why I need that many either. So Amazon using Calibre's one-click send-by-email feature is a back up of positively last resort.
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