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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: [Meta] Wait, you sort your books how???
Date: 22 Jul 2024 16:35:46 GMT
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In article <aavs9jhv508p9e8nl9au2gd8bikug3k21l@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>On 21 Jul 2024 16:29:21 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
>
>>Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 13:59:34 +1200, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>You probably don't need to back up Amazon purchases as you can download
>>>>them again for no cost. (I haven't done that for years and years but
>>>>when I lost a hard disk once, it was a simple task to reload them Amazon
>>>>using "Kindle for PC".)
>>>>If you need to back up individual books, then do a web search for DeDRM
>>>>Calibre Kindle (or maybe Amazon).
>>>
>>>The "Manage Content and Devices" Page (can't find it? Pull up "Returns
>>>and Orders", go to "Digital Orders" and find an eBook; the button
>>>should be the right) can download files for transfer by USB. You have
>>>to designate which device you are planning to use it on, but it
>>>downloads to Download and from there it can be moved ... anywhere.
>>
>>This is great if you trust Amazon's long-term ability to keep providing
>>them.
>
>Actually, the idea is that you do this every time you buy one and then
>move it somewhere Amazon can't find it and so can neither modify it
>nor remove it. That still leaves DRM to be handled, of course, but I
>keep reading about that not being unsolvable.
>
>The last time I tried to actually copy a file to a Kindle, I found the
>directory system hard to understand. I don't know where they are
>supposed to go, but they can be found and used in what is clearly not
>the intended location. Or could be, I think this was with my
>now-replaced PaperWhite.
>
>With the new Kindles, for a while, if I did the "download and
>transfer" before having Amazon send it to the device [1] the device
>would claim that, since I had copied it via USB, it was not synched
>and never would synch. Rather a churlish attitude, but what can you
>do?
>
>[1] Which quite an adventure with the new Kindles: by default, they go
>to sleep and so /cannot receive books/ until you turn them on and they
>wake up. And even then it is possible to see a book, delivered to the
>wrong one because of Amazon's no longer allowing you to choose where
>it is to go when you buy it (at least they stopped asking where you
>wanted it to go and then sending it wherever /they/ decided was your
>default), on the device and not be able to get the "Manage Content and
>Devices" page to recognize that it is there and so cause it to be
>removed. Chewing gum and baling wire, /that's/ what Amazon's support
>of this feature is made of.
>-- 

Alternatively to putting an ebook file into the "documents" folder
when the kindle is attached by USB, there is an email address associated
with every kindle to which you can mail an ebook as an attachment and
have it appear automagically.
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