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Originally Posted by Timboli
Of course they are perfectly aware, how could they not be.
Collecting data, and then sitting on it for whatever reason, is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
The fact that DRM removal that was created more than a year ago, still works after a few Kindle updates, proves they aren't currently actively trying to stop it. They've given up, doesn't have the ring of truth to me.
And who can truly say what the future might bring.
P.S. And we have all heard of people who have had their Kindle wiped, all supposedly unfairly and never a reason given apparently, or rarely so. A wise person shows a measure of caution.
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I buy books from independent publishers, Kobo and Amazon. As soon as I buy a book it is loaded into Calibre and liberated from whatever DRM it 'may' have had. Books from Amazon are never sent back into my account so how would Amazon even know that's what I've done? All they know is that I downloaded each file for transfer by USB. Amazon purchases are downloaded to my kindle and read as AZW files, as intended by Amazon.
Purchases from other sources are sent into Amazon as mobi files. Since the publishers, and Kobo, sell them DRM free again I can't see a problem from Amazon's perspective.
I do what I do for backup. I, from personal experience, have little faith in Amazon plus I've had ebook retailers close, multiple times. It's my own responsibility to back up my own files and that is what I do. The day Amazon, or any ebook retailer, stops me doing that is the day I stop buying from them after all Fan fiction is free and I don't have to spend money buying that.