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[shadowkat]

I keep nickle and diming myself to death buying kindle daily deals on Amazon. The latest?

1. Achilles: a Novel by Melinda Miller for $1.99
2. Collasping Empire by John Scalzi for $2.99
3. Digging in by (I forget) for $1.99
4. The Curious Dog at Night Time for $2.99

Seriously. I bought less books before Amazon.

I have over 600 books on my Kindle. I'll never read them all. But at least they aren't taking up space in my apartment. There's that.

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[atpo_onm]

Question from a non-electronic reader owner: Are those 600 books things you download from a cloud storage whenever you want to read them (once you buy them), or are they all stored in memory in the Kindle?

Wondering because what happens if the Kindle breaks or is stolen? Would you have to buy the books all over again?

[shadowkat]

The books are always stored on the cloud. You download a copy to read. Similar to music, photographs, blog posts, podcasts, films, videos and television shows.

IF the Kindle gets lost or broken, the book remains available on the cloud. If you delete the book from your Kindle, you can download it again from the cloud. Once something is on the cloud or saved to the cloud, the only one way to permanently delete is to delete it directly from the cloud. The cloud works as a sort of backup hard-drive, if that makes sense?

[shadowkat]

And I know this is true because I've broken a Kindle and deleted content from it, but was still able to access it from the cloud. (It's in my Amazon cloud account until well I delete information in it.)