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Originally Posted by ruff
I've had one for over a year or so. It is the best machine for reading. I have about 60 books so far and I can archive them off the unit and bring them back whenever I want...
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Archive them where? In the Amazon Kindle cloud or do you mean on your computer?
If you're relying on the ability to re-download from the cloud, you may be in for a nasty surprise in the future - publishers have the ability and legal right to restrict re-downloads (aka. restoring).
As for restoring from an archive on your own computer, that's safer, but even that's not full-proof either due to the DRM - there's no guarantee it will be restoreable indefinitely without cracking the DRM and/or through other measures.
After the 1984 book debacle, Amazon has basically stated they would refrain from removing books already on one's Kindle device, except in rare instances, but will still continue to utilize the ability to retroactively take action, such as restricting re-downloads - that presumably could be enforced on local archives as well unless the DRM is removed and/or the device is modded.
Ron