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Originally Posted by maddz
Probably as back-up. Amazon have form in deleting purchased content.
In my case, I use Calibre to consolidate my library as I obtain books from a variety of sources, and then sideload everything to my Kobo (even Kobo purchases). That allows me to clean up the metadata, especially series info. I also back-up my Calibre content to the cloud.
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Without Calibre I might buy the same book from more than one place, or some other stupidity. Calibre is invaluable to set subtitle, series, and collections, blurb and have an original publish date.
With Amazon's "direct to app/device" scheme you are completely at the mercy of Amazon's up time, internet compatibility and having to use an App if the Kindle breaks / lost / stolen.
Make USB HDD backups too. Off site can be a shed, car, friend or relative. I have a server in a fireproof shed as well as USB HDD backups, going back to 2013 for Amazon and about 1994 otherwise.