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Originally Posted by 1voyager2
It does seem that I have learned something here.
After going back online and digging around in Amazon and other areas, I'm beginning to understand what's going on.
When I "registered" my KPW it was not for warranty confirmation.
It was signing up for their cloud service and all that goes with it, want it or not.
When I disengaged from the cloud I "unregistered" my reader.
Creating categories is done in the cloud, not in the reader.
At some point [a firmware update] the ability to set up categories was removed from the reader.
A later firmware update made "jailbreaking" too difficult to do.
At least no one has again figured out how to do it.
By using their cloud "service" you do more than just use it.
You also allow them access to your reader.
Apparently, in any way they want to.
Remember the incidents where they were caught deleting books, that people had bought, from their e-readers, and I believe making other modifications too, at least a couple of times.
Nothing to indicate they have removed that ability, only promised they won't do it again.
Yeah, sure.
It seems that I will not be able to create categories unless I re-register my reader and give Amazon full access to it again.
Not going to happen.
I was just curious as to how to set them up.
I'll continue to store my e-books on my PC and only upload a few at a time to the reader.
Don't really need more than that.
Thanks folks for your input.
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If you re-register, you can then disconnect from wi-fi and you will be able to create collections ("categories"). As long as you don't connect to wi-fi, Amazon can't see what's on your Kindle, and definitely can't remove anything.
Shari