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The Kindle device definitely logs the titles of any books that it opens (in a file on the Kindle itself) as well as many other details (date/time, encryption status, etc...). The device also has the ability to send that log to Amazon. —However— No one, to date, has ever actually caught the Kindle transferring it's log file to Amazon servers (and many have tried). After days of monitoring, the packets that the Kindle sends upstream are simply not large enough to contain log data. The packet sizes are in keeping with standard keep-alive pings and such.
So in the the spirit of full disclosure: yes, the Kindle logs what you are reading; yes, it could send that log to Amazon (or tech support could access it remotely); no, nobody has "caught" a Kindle automatically transferring that log file to Amazon.
Like others... I don't believe Amazon much cares what books you are reading. If you want total and complete privacy insurance... don't use a device that has a wireless receiver/transmitter built into it (or leave the radio off).
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