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Originally Posted by sirbruce
You've got it. Indeed, backing up the Kindle books to your PC is almost pointless unless you strip the DRM from them.
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As you have noted, backups won't help with respect to copying books to an upgraded or replacement Kindle, but it is very handy to have all your purchased books on your hard drive in case there is a problem with the Amazon servers (not uncommon).
I keep two copies of every book I purchase - one for my Kindle and one for my wife's. I have had my K2 replaced a number of times for sunfade and other issues, so I have had to have CS refund a few books so I could get them when they were not able to reset the license counters. It definitely appears their DRM system is still working out bugs 19 months into the product.
El