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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
I think this whole chain has missed the main point.
Why do you have a reader that has WiFi/3G/4G/ect. ?
Why do you store backup on the Cloud?
You have as much privacy as you are willing to pay for. Sometimes in money, sometimes in extra bother.
I run a Hanlin V3 reader. Old, not particularly popular. It doesn't have Wifi, everything has to be sideloaded. I backup to my sterile (non-internet computer), and keep a SD chip copy of my library off-site.
No worrys about who is watching my metadata, whether from a Big Brother sense, or just marketing 'bots trying to sell me things. Nobody knows what I read, they can only know that I bought it. Useful, but limiting for the marketing 'bots.
If you want privacy, give up your reader connection and the Cloud. It's that simple...
(I live by the rule - "If it can't happen, it won't happen." Call me paranoid if you wish....)
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I can relate to a lot of what you say Ralph Sir Edward. However, because I can't read easily on my Sony 650 because it's just not light enough (I need front lighting or whatever it's known as) I read instead from my BB Playbook which has wifi and bridge access when I activate them.
But .... I've made a decision not to buy books using the Playbook because it makes sense to me to download a new purchase onto a PC, clean it and put it through Calibre before I then side load it.
I buy ebooks, and download free ebooks, from whichever sites suit at the time, including Kobo, Sony, Book Depository, Borders etc.
I also reasoned that if I used my Playbook as the purchase platform and initial download site that I may very likely have format compatibility issues - so that limits my options as well.
I also considered that purchasing via PC and downloading my purchases immediately, meant that what I did with the ebook then would remain private to myself only.
In the future I will no doubt buy another ebook reader, and it may or may not have wifi or 3G access, but I have determined from the outset that I would not turn these attributes on, because it seems to me that a 'footprint' of some description would be made about a purchase specific to the device, and that there is likely to be the possibility via cookies, that all books with certain extensions kept on the device would also be able to be read back to the company the next time that I connected to the ebook seller site.
As far as I'm concerned, my business is my business!!!