Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Kindle Skills - Back Up Your Stuff

This shouldn't be a problem if all you put on your Kindle are books you purchased from Amazon. If your Kindle ever bites the big one, you can always replace it, then resend your books from the archives on Amazon associated with your account. Every book you ever purchased is right there. It is the ultimate backup... books from your account on your Kindle, as well as (an alternate location) on the massive Amazon servers. The best backup scenario is to have your stuff at home, as well as off site. Isn't that nice of Amazon? You can just relax and enjoy all the good stuff on your Kindle.

You can do the same thing for any other books, audio books, or music files you put on your Kindle. Make a special folder on your computer ( I keep mine on my desktop) for your ebooks you download from free sources like manybooks.net. Do the same for audio book or music files. It doesn't matter where you keep your folders, as long as you can find them easily. If you also want to add another layer of security, you can copy these folders onto a recordable CD, then store the CD in some other location. Most computers have a CD recorder/player, and the blank CDs are relatively inexpensive, so this is another way to get your money's worth out of your equipment, and another computer related skill that will enhance your Kindle reading experience.

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