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Originally Posted by redrock
However, I'm wondering whether Amazon knows about everything that's on my Kindle or whether that content is private.
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Go to amazon.com, to the Kindle area, to Manage My Kindle, and then to Your Kindle Library. That's what Amazon has. If you put it on your Kindle through Amazon, such as by buying it from them, or sent it to your Kindle through @kindle.com, the content is in an Amazon computer. I doubt that Amazon employees waste their lunch hours looking at such. It might be encrypted. It might even be a firing offense. But I wouldn't rule out someone with too much time on their hands seeing what's there.
If you loaded it through the usb cable, however, I think it is close to inconceivable that they are harvesting that. It would be a damaging scandal if that ever came out. And the infrastructure to harvest that data would cost money. Could a US court get such information, from Amazon, with a search warrant? I don't know. Could they get it, with a court order, by seizing your physical Kindle? Certainly.
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Most of the books on my Kindle are not from Amazon but put onto the Kindle through calibre. Does Amazon know about these books . . .
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I believe no.
I use the Calibre news Fetch News feature, which does use @kindle.com. That stuff is in Amazon's computers. But books sent via Calibre are not.