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Originally Posted by Hellmark
Not having D&T makes it much harder to back up your amazon purchases in bulk. By having D&T, people could run a script and download everything, but on kindle going one at a time is dreadfully slow. I have in the neighborhood of 3000 books in my Kindle library, can you imagine doing that on the device itself? I'd have to periodically make room because my Kindle doesn't even have enough storage capacity to hold all of the books at one time.
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I'm not following you? Isn't it the other way around? If you want to convert in bulk, isn't it much, much easier to use the files on your Kindle as opposed to D&T?
If I use the D&T method, that means I go to Amazon's website and select 25 books at time (that's the most you can select). I have 1,000 books, so that means I'd have to repeat this process 40 times. Then I import them into Calibre to strip their DRM.
In contrast, if I use the files on my Kindle, all I have to do is connect my Kindle to my PC, open Calibre, select all kfx files and import them. Boom. Easy-peasy.
I understand many people don't have a compatible Kindle, so I'm not suggesting this is easy for everyone. And I understand a lot of people feel awz converts to epub more smoothly than kfx. So I'm not arguing overall the direct-from-Kindle method is better than D&T.
Rather, I'm narrowly addressing your comment that (for people with compatible devices) bulk conversions are easier with D&T than with direct-from-Kindle conversions. I would strongly disagree.