Thread: Amazon has opened a hornets nest!
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Old 01-12-2012, 09:19 AM   #62
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
No, the gist of what's being said is that there's no point in people endlessly whining about a mistake which Amazon made, admitted to, and put right, years ago. What does it achieve?
I may be in the minority, but I find it interesting. I knew about the "delete from device" thing, but I hadn't really followed that through to "they can see what's on your device".

Is that true for the Nook Classic? I only sideload that baby, but I leave the connections active because of maintenance updates. Now I'm thinking maybe I should put 'er in Airplane Mode. Not because I have anything I don't want B&N to see -- BREAKING NEWS! ANA READS THE HUNGER GAMES! RED ALERT! -- but more because... I value my privacy in certain oddly-defined ways.

What about the Sony 350/950 line? I keep Wi-Fi on the 950 so I can do the Wikipedia lookup. Can Sony see the contents of my reader any time they want?

One interesting thing is that it wouldn't surprise me at all if someone somewhere thought it'd be a good idea to look for "unpublished" books to find pre-release pirate copies. Except, whoooooops, Ana has a crapload of ARCs from NetGalley on her device waiting to be read. I wouldn't expect Bob McEagertostoppiracy to necessarily think about that.
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