I have 18 years of data entry for the just-under 11,000 books in my library, into an Excel spreadsheet that lets me sort my books by author, title and category (SFK = Scifi Kindle, SFH = hardcover, etc.). The only ones on my Kindle are the ones I haven't read yet.about 650.Īs far as collections go, I don't have any. Between AMZ purchases and elsewhere I have about 2000 ebooks. And then send them from there, as needed, to the Kind.' Randy wrote: 'Eric - I think you'd be better off downloading them to your PC instead of the Kindle, cataloging them with Calibre, possibly removing the DRM. Just a few thoughts based on my experience (particularly with having had to replace a Kindle). Using the app only allows you to read books from the Cloud, in theory, but if you go to a non-AMZ-purchased mobi (say, scifi/fantasy from Baen) you just double-click the file and that enables you to read on your computer. The other thing is that at least with Kindle, you can download the app. At roughly 1500 books from AMZ and even with managing an average of starting a new download every 30 seconds that's 750 minutes of download time.Īs opposed to just using USB to copy everything (or selected things) quickly.

I don't trust the Cloud because it's someone else's servers and I have no idea who has access to that.Īlso, if something happens to your Kindle (don't know about Nooks or other devices) so far as I know there's nothing to 'click' and have AMZ download all your purchases automatically. The 'good' it does to have all your ebooks on your personal computer (instead of/in addition to) the device and/or 'the Cloud' is that you have an immediate backup copy of everything. What good does that do? Those eBooks are only readable on that s.' Randy wrote: 'Anika wrote: 'I connect my kindle to my personal computer and drag/copy all books from my kindle to a folder on my computer.'

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