11-12-2013, 02:28 PM | #1 |
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Had Touch stolen bought PW2, way to mass download book from cloud?
As far as I can tell I'll have to individually download books from the cloud to get them on the new device, or is there an option I'm missing to mass download them all?
Amazon's cloud interface seems pretty limited, next time I'll back up device on hard drive as well. |
11-12-2013, 03:06 PM | #2 |
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You have to download them individually, either through the device or the MYK page on Amazon.
Backing up Amazon books on a hard drive wouldn't help (except for samples) because the DRM on the file is connected to a particular device. So your Touch files wouldn't work on the PW2. You should, however, regularly backup all non-Amazon files. |
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11-12-2013, 03:31 PM | #3 |
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That's precisely why many of us remove the DRM as soon as we buy a book, so we can back it up in a program such as Calibre.
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11-12-2013, 03:48 PM | #4 |
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Just open the archive view on PW and click all the books, you can queue them up and leave it to download. Really your only option.
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If they are personal documents, you might find it a little easier to sideload them. Unless you have synced notes/highlights.
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11-12-2013, 04:21 PM | #7 |
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Thing is many of the files that were on the lost Touch were PDF's that I used the kindle free e-mail with "convert" in the subject line to convert to Kindle format. I know I can use Calibre again on these files, but I found the Kindle e-mail conversion to be better.
It's been a while since I've used Calibre, I'll see if it's converting them better now. |
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Don't forget that downloading a ton of files at one time is a bad idea. Do 20 at a time, or so. Otherwise, it will choke up while indexing all those files.
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11-12-2013, 05:02 PM | #9 |
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Ah yes, I dealt with that on my Touch. I'm surprised that hasn't been addressed better on the Paper white.
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11-12-2013, 07:54 PM | #10 |
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Download them using Kindle for PC.
Set up Calibre using Apprentice Alf's Unnamed Tools so DRM will be removed. Import all books into Calibre from the My Kindle Content folder. Side-load. Profit. |
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calibre conversion is always improving, I assume.
You could try the official kindlegen, which is what Amazon uses anyway. Might need to use KindleStrip if you do, though, since it can cut the size of a kindlegenned book in 3 by stripping out all but the KF8. |
11-13-2013, 10:40 AM | #12 |
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If the books are in Kindle cloud, they're already in a Kindle-supported format, I assume. No conversion necessary.
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It might take longer to download them all.
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11-15-2013, 05:18 PM | #14 |
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Three times now with three Kindles I have taken the following steps:
1.Open your old Kindle on Calibre. 2.tag your sideloaded books or any legitimately purchased books from which DRM has been removed for personal reasonsh which you have on the old kindle. 3.plug your new kindle to Calibre and copy over the books that you tagged. 4.copy to new kindle. 5.download from Amazon any purchases that you do not keep of-line. 6.On new kindle import collections using your new kindle from your old kindle. 7.For me 90% of the side loaded books and downloaded books are automatically put into the correct collection. Rest you do by hand. Good luck. |
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