[crane3]

I could have said "disappearing books from my Amazon account content" as that is also true. Fortunately, I am using Calibre & have converted the AZW books to epub; BUT stupidly a some months past, I did a mass delete of the AZW files which I should have kept as 'proof'(?) or purchase/license.

Anyway, I found that many books got deleted from my Amazon account for many books & some I thought was "recent" but checking Calibre, I saw they were from 2013, 2014 & 2015. The discovery came about because I received my 'new' Oasis & wanted to reread a book from Modesitt's Imager series on the Oasis. Guess what, not on the Oasis; checked my Kindle lib on the pc where Amazon send the books as it was my default device (place); not there!?? also not on my Fire HDX...so checked my account on Amazon; not there either!!!

No way to recover except by Amazon using their email archive as I long stopped saving the receipt emails as cluttering up my system. Won't know what else I'm missing until I want to reread a book from another author.

So what now? I am not willing to purchase the books again & will now NEVER delete the AZW files from my Calibre library. And even tho I keep 3 backups/exports (1/month), the Amazon formatted books are long gone but, at least, I still have the books on Calibre & Calibre Companion. Will be checking to see if CC can have multiple libraries also to have a separate library just for the AZW files even if the preferred format is epub.

The cloud sucks & not truly safe.