What'll happen to all the Kindle books when Amazon dies?

4 points·DantesKite··9 comments

Whether it be in 50 years or 50,0000.

I convert the .mobi files into .epub and keep reading.

With the risk of offending someone: books worth being around in 50.000 years won't be "kindle only".

I love my kindle though, I use it daily and think it's a great device. You don't have to buy ebooks through amazon to read them on the kindle by the way. :)

Good question, and that's the main reason I prefer to own physical books over Kindle books. I know that I own a physical book, but a Kindle book can disappear at any moment. Kindles are great while traveling though.

Do you often reread old books? I find that most books are only read once and then discarded, but it's hard to tell which ones are before buying.

I don’t even have a concept of an “old” book or of “reading” a book, I just keep them around for inspiration, going back for some quote, rereading, showing someone, etc. I mean I also almost never finish them, or even try to read them in linear order...

It really depends on the type of book. muzani might be thinking novels, while you could be thinking textbooks.

Yes, I do.

Amazon decrypts them all to DRM-free files at the eleventh hour. Then individuals don't have a backup habit and so later end up losing their files anyway.

Yeah, I like how all the other other failed/failing companies have done likewise (/sarcasm)

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