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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???
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In article <h8kv9jhhp1p1mnqdrn6bu8q9rb5vou3qtk@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>On 22 Jul 2024 16:35:46 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
><tednolan>) wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Provided it isn't sleeping, of course.
>
>I've never tried it so I have no idea how well it works.

It doesn't matter if it's sleeping.  The document will be queued the
next time you connect to the Internet.

I've only done it a few times, but works OK.  It will automagically
convert formats as well.

	https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/email
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