Troubleshooting Unsure of how to backup a Kindle Paperwhite 2

[stumped]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

I have never used the Amazon Cloud storage to retrieve a Send To Kindle ebook, I keep a master copy in Calibre.

Do you not have the original ebooks you sent to the Amazon Cloud using Send to Kindle?

sending a book is just one possible use. I sometimes use the chrome extension to send web pages to kindle- Calibre is not in that loop. web pages sent like that are converted to AZW I think

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by stumped

sending a book is just one possible use. I sometimes use the chrome extension to send web pages to kindle- Calibre is not in that loop. web pages sent like that are converted to AZW I think

Sorry I can't suggest anything further, I only use personal documents for ebooks bought elsewhere than Amazon. As we have all said anything you sent to the Amazon cloud will be downloadable on your new kindle. It's the USB side loaded stuff that won't.

[stumped]

but for USB side loaded stuff it is a simple copy from old Kindle to PC, then copy from PC to same location on New Kindle. There is no DRM on the USB sideloaded stuff so no issues ?

is there anything still unsolved here ?

[phunnylinguist]

While in the course of this thread I've been visiting and re-visiting Amazon's Manage Your Content and Devices. What I discovered is a setting that I obviously overlooked beforehand. On that very same Manage Your Content and Devices, under Personal Document Archiving I noticed that Enable personal document archiving to my Kindle library had been unchecked. Presumably this is the reason the vast majority of my previously Send To Kindle content was not visible there.

According to Amazon, in order to have these documents included requires checking the box next to Enable personal document archiving to my Kindle library.

Having done that and subsequently sending an rtf doc via Send To Kindle I also noticed, that unlike previous rtfs sent in a similar fashion (which were easily readable as well as affording the option to change font as well as font size), this setting appeared to also alter an additional Send To Kindle setting by converting the rtf file into pdf format, thus disabling font/font size features. I don't know about you but given any other option viewing pdfs on a Paperwhite are, to me, frustrating.

[shalym]

Originally Posted by phunnylinguist

While in the course of this thread I've been visiting and re-visiting Amazon's Manage Your Content and Devices. What I discovered is a setting that I obviously overlooked beforehand. On that very same Manage Your Content and Devices, under Personal Document Archiving I noticed that Enable personal document archiving to my Kindle library had been unchecked. Presumably this is the reason the vast majority of my previously Send To Kindle content was not visible there.

According to Amazon, in order to have these documents included requires checking the box next to Enable personal document archiving to my Kindle library.

Having done that and subsequently sending an rtf doc via Send To Kindle I also noticed, that unlike previous rtfs sent in a similar fashion (which were easily readable as well as affording the option to change font as well as font size), this setting appeared to also alter an additional Send To Kindle setting by converting the rtf file into pdf format, thus disabling font/font size features. I don't know about you but given any other option viewing pdfs on a Paperwhite are, to me, frustrating.

I've never had a file converted to a PDF, but I also don't send rtf format files. I send .mobi. Is there a particular reason why the files you send are in the rtf format?

Shari

[Nicko]

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