Any thoughts on whether it is better to deliver downloaded ebooks thru kindle mail or some other means. Should there be a concern that ebooks are kept on the Kindle cloud??? What is the best means to deliver the downloaded ebooks?

[zackddog]

If by deliver you mean add them to your PC, phone, tablet, laptop or other electronic reader all you have to do is download the software for your particular gadget and just enter your Amazon username and password and all of your books will be delivered to the gadget and your current book will be sync'ed to all of them.

If by deliver you mean send them via email or dropbox or through a file host, then the answer is that you have to de DRM the book before you can do any such thing. Or send them to someone who can de DRM. And that's easy, download the kindle for PC or laptop or tablet and just pick the file from the "My Kindle" folder and email it or upload it.

As to how to de DRM, you'll need to figure that out for yourself, online. It's not very well received when we discuss that subject openly.

And the only problem with keeping things on the Kindle cloud is if Amazon goes out of business tomorrow and you can't access the cloud. Which I don't see happening for at least another 2 or 3 days.

Or never.

[empirewf]

I always just drag & drop the ebook files to my phone and I've done the same with the normal kindle ereader.

If by deliver you mean add them to your PC, phone, tablet, laptop or other electronic reader all you have to do is download the software for your particular gadget and just enter your Amazon username and password and all of your books will be delivered to the gadget and your current book will be sync'ed to all of them.

If by deliver you mean send them via email or dropbox or through a file host, then the answer is that you have to de DRM the book before you can do any such thing. Or send them to someone who can de DRM. And that's easy, download the kindle for PC or laptop or tablet and just pick the file from the "My Kindle" folder and email it or upload it.

As to how to de DRM, you'll need to figure that out for yourself, online. It's not very well received when we discuss that subject openly.

And the only problem with keeping things on the Kindle cloud is if Amazon goes out of business tomorrow and you can't access the cloud. Which I don't see happening for at least another 2 or 3 days.

Or never.

Remember Amazon's(?) old PDF ebook store during the 90s? Oh wait. It's no longer around. Everyone who spent money on that lost all their books.

[Ebook-Collector]

Personally I think its far better to be responsible for your own storage of your e-books. You've either paid for them, or gone to the trouble of sourceing them - so why not save them to your hard-drive or to a memory stick/card? Why leave it to chance or Amazon to store your ebooks?

I agree, I import into Calibre so it's stored on my computer, fix the metadata and cover if needed, then save a copy to dropbox, which makes it easy to import to any connected device.

I agree with keeping them on your own pc or a stick. Amazon may one day say only book bought through their site can be stored there, particularly if you are buying nothing from them.