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Originally Posted by 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.
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Well it is pretty easy to see if you really did buy them with your current Amazon account. Go to orders, then click digital orders then in the drop down choose the year. All digital books you ordered that year should appear. If it doesn't show there then you had another account during that time. If it does show, and it is indeed not in your cloud, then email Amazon to fix it.