Amazon wants to coax users into its cloud storage service, so what better way to do it than to save documents to the cloud that were sent to a Kindle device. That's what Amazon is doing right now, and we view it as a splendid idea.
Rather than convert documents into a difference file format that might screw up formatting, Amazon's cloud storage service will keep them in their native format. However, bear in mind that Amazon might not have the means to open some documents, especially those that are saved in .docx, or xls. However, at the end of the day, users will be sure that they won't easily lose a document, as a copy is backed up in Amazon's cloud service for safe keeping.
Despite saving in a different file format in the cloud, all documents sent to Kindle will be opened in a file format that Kindle supports, so users should not worry about not being able to open important documents with their favorite reading device.
"And as always, you can use Manage Your Kindle to see a list of your documents, re-deliver them to Kindle devices and free reading apps, delete them, or turn off auto-saving of documents to the cloud," says Amazon. "Documents will be delivered just as they have in the past and you will continue to have 5 GB of free cloud storage for your personal documents. Just "Send Once, Read Everywhere."
Along with the 5GB of free space for personal documents, users will also get an additional 5GB of storage for storing any other file type, such as music or pictures. This means, Amazon cloud storage users should have a whopping 10GB of free storage available to them, which is more than what some cloud storage providers are offering.
Saving any document file to Amazon's cloud service is a very useful feature, even if users won't have the ability to view these documents straight from the cloud, similar to Google Drive and Microsoft's OneDrive. Kindle users won't mind though, as the most important thing is being able to save documents to the cloud for future references, and just in case a document is misplaced or lost.
