Files can be synced between devices via Dropbox. Once you have the app installed on your computer or tablet or smartphone, you can use it to open an ebook file in a preferred book reading application.īut there is one more thing, much more important than that. There are apps for most of popular platforms. Google Drive comes to mind, but it’s Dropbox that offers a real cross-device experience. There are a couple of cloud storage services. Thanks to that, no matter which app I’ll use to open the books, I can always use “publisher’s setting” to get the same look. Then I use calibre to convert them to epub, using my own preferences. I buy ebooks in a Polish ebookstore Virtualo, in mobi format, unprotected. And the less books are there to convert the better. Luckily, there are platforms like calibre, that can do that in bulk. What you will have to do is to bring all the books from a cloud library to one, DRM-free, format. What else do you lose, besides sync, anyway? Safety? Control? You mean control over the files Amazon can remove at any time? Syncing book data between devices is at stake, but nowadays there are apps that can do that via Dropbox, naming only Marvin for iOS.
Plus, if the company dedicated to guard the content, like Adobe with their DRM, is not capable of guarding users’ passwords, that only makes things more ironic. And produce a relevant press release, new terms of use, or urgent email. Only God knows who will apply what and when.
#Dropbook ereader upgrade
Is anyone around who is 100% sure I won’t be forced to move or upgrade or re-download my books to Kindle or Kobo cloud in the next two years? It’s not only a question of format, but also DRM. smaller convenience, bigger control (Dropbox, Google Drive).bigger convenience, smaller control (Kindle, Kobo, Sony, Google Play Books, Nook),.So, there is no better time to think about moving the ebook collection to a cloud owned by the most important guy in all this game: you. But on the other side they offer an essential disadvantage – mess. Sure, all clouds powered by major ebookstores offer an essential advantage – sync.
There are two reasons to stop relying on DRM-guarded cloud libraries, and start thinking about alternatives:
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