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Originally Posted by Jamie the Kiwi
I'm having my K3 replaced, due to a cracked case - it was covered under warranty. So I have to send the cracked one back to them.
But before I do, I want to try to delete any evidence of the books that I was reading on it. You know, just the everyday embarrassing stuff you get on most Kindles, Pornographic fiction, The Satanic Bible, the Al Qaeda Handbook, etc etc. 
Possible?
However, I expect this kind of information would be sent straight to Amazon almost as soon as I upload the books onto there. Right? |
Besides the earlier responses, which I think are all quite valid and probably don't require any action, a good way to erase documents anywhere, is to delete the files in question, empty the recycle bin if it is a disk drive of some type, re-sync your kindle so that its library/db is empty, and then fill the drive up COMPLETELY with a lot of data (e.g. photos, music, movie files, etc) and then delete that. The idea is that the new files that fill up your drive will completely remove any possibility of recovering the files you deleted.
Of course someone may then be able to recover the file(s) you filled your drive with afterward.
This is a good way to defragment drives when typical defragmenting or formatting doesn't work if the file you are filling the drive with is just one file. Not filling the drive can lead to files not being written over the areas that were previously written.
Last, this is a lot of effort for something the Amazon probably won't check on, but I thought I'd give it as an FYI.