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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
I've always worried about sending files I'd originally received as ePub, then stripped DRM. Would Amazon be checking for books it knows that should be digitally encrypted? From what people have said here, it doesn't sound like it.
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I had a slightly different situation and I was also nervous about it so I checked with Kindle support. I buy nearly all my books from Amazon and strip them and add a table of contents if needed and send them back to Amazon as docs. I was concerned they would be bothered by this. It's probably at least technically a violation of their TOS.
Anyway I called Kindle support and explained what I was doing and the guy didn't know the answer but called me back the next day. He said he asked around and no-one there, including his supervisor, could see any reason to be concerned about this. In fact some of the support guys were already doing it.
That was about 8 or 10 months ago. I had made a similar check 2 or 3 years ago with similar but less confident results. I now feel pretty good about doing this.
In my case the books involved mostly come from Amazon and were never epub but a few did come from other online stores and were epub before I converted. I can't recall if I mentioned that when I called but my guess is that they'd be more concerned about what happens to books they sell than what happens to their competitors books.
I don't keep all that many books uploaded. Usually it's 10 or 15 books I think I might read pretty soon. After I read them I remove them from my library. I never asked about how many books I can upload since that isn't an issue for me.
Barry