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Originally Posted by BookCat
Don't worry, they're not out to get you.  |
Oh they are. Absolutely out to totally exploit your reading habits and monetise your information.
I no longer post what I've read to Social Media or Goodreads (Amazon owned). Why should I help exploitive companies to update their marketing profiles?
If you add books a few at a time via USB there is no difficulty in adding them to Collections/Categories and creating those as long as the Kindle is registered. ONCE.
Amazon ought to be:
1)
Allowing people to create collections without registering.
2) Allowing people to switch off sync collections with Cloud.
Their present methods might be illegal in EU unless there is adequate auditing of privacy.
Ignore warning messages and only connect WiFi to look up WiKipedia info in a book. Pick Download to PC and transfer via USB when purchasing from Amazon.
Buying an ebook reader or ebooks does not give Amazon any legal right to collect the information that they collect (in EU anyway and morally elsewhere), even if they have T&C that claim they have the right. It's exploitive and immoral.