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Originally Posted by haertig
I have always downloaded my Amazon book purchases immediately after buying them.
That's my story. Other's experiences will no doubt be different.
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Indeed, and my story is a little different.
I have more than double what you have at Amazon, most of them free via a BookBub recommendation, and I grabbed them because they were free, but I was also very selective about it too, they had to appeal, usually not enough to risk buying, but then I can be a bit averse that way. That said, I will probably never end up reading most of them, which was why I stopped using BookBub many many months ago.
A good portion of the ebooks I have from Amazon, are in the KFX format, grabbed immediately after purchase. I am pretty sure I got them all, but with the Download & transfer via USB option disappearing, it was my last opportunity to grab them in the AZW or AZW3 format, and some could possibly have slipped through the cracks, despite me being very diligent.
I also hadn't kept up with Updates, and while most from what I saw were for the free ebooks I'd gotten, a good number weren't, and on my slow PC, I wasn't keen to browse through those awful bloated Amazon pages to discover and get them ... would have taken me more than a day, and not a good use of my time.
Anyway, I decided I did not want to lose access to such a resource, because one never knows what the future might bring or reveal. So luckily that JS script and an assistant program of my own, made the whole process of obtaining that resource far less onerous.
Now I am prepared as much as I can be.