It is great that I can so easily search or browse for my books, and download them again whenever I want.Īm I furiously downloading all my digital books to guard against a reoccurrence of a vanishing Amazon/Audible Library? I plead the 5th. I don't want to keep my digital content - I'm happy to off-load this task to Amazon's cloud. There is no getting around the fact that I am putting a great deal of trust in Amazon.ĭon't get me wrong - it is a great service that Amazon holds my entire digital book library.
What happens to all these books when I die? What is the plan if my account credentials somehow get corrupted? What would I do if my account were hacked? What would happen if the technology failed in some bigger way? Audible fixed the glitch and my audiobook library came back about 30 minutes or so after I took the screenshot, but maybe this glitch was some kind of warning. Relying on a company to store my content is wonderful.
It gets worse, as I do the same thing for my Kindle books. What this means is that I rely on Audible, on Amazon (which owns Audible) to hold my book library. Most only exist as links in my Audible Library. As of today, I have downloaded 368 (the latest one being Salt, Sugar, Fat )įor some of these audiobooks I have local copies on my laptop. The first book that I purchased from Audible was in April of 2005 ( The World is Flat). Now I know for a fact that I have more than zero audiobooks in my Library.
Below is a screenshot of what I saw when I opened my Library this morning.
0 kommentar(er)
