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Originally Posted by Josieb1
I may be very naive here but surely if I have 660 books on my Kindle and only 21 came from Amazon, and of the rest 600 of them are not published books (i.e fanfiction PDF's and word docs converted to MOBI using Calibre) how can Amazon know anything about them other than recognise that I have 600 personal documents?
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The title if anything but I've never heard of Amazon doing anything with this data if they even collect it. In theory they could generate some sort of unique hash value from the contents but thats a lot of work for no reason. I've looked at the Kindle TOS and it doesn't mention anything about data collection of your personal documents.
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Originally Posted by Josieb1
Also could they know anything about the ebooks purchased from other sites? I bought the Kindle eqivalent file, so MOBI or PRC, and loaded them via Calibre
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They allow you to buy from other stores and to load your personal documents so they're not going to care. If they did care then they'd lock down the Kindle so you can't do it.