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Originally Posted by rebeltaz
My Kindles NEVER go online, anyway. They are ALWAYS in Airplane Mode. With every device I have, be it a video game console or ebook reader, one of the first thing that I always do is jailbreak it. Mainly because I prefer for MY hardware to behave the way I want it to behave, not the way I'm TOLD it should behave. I do not register any device or software online. I do not allow devices or software to ever "phone home." And if something will not work with "phoning home" or otherwise requiring any cloud-based service, I do not use it. Period.
My original Kindle was the only exception that I've ever made to that rule, and that was because I was, at the time, downloading books from Amazon, so it just made sense. Once I realized, though, that not only were books that I had side loaded disappearing, but that everything I did was logged and sent to the mothership, I put a stop to that as well.
If you like the walled garden experience... that's great... for you. For other's, not much. Now that _I_ control MY device, I am much happier with it.
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Wait...you're saying that you had books that you sideloaded to the device disappear? And you think that they were removed by Amazon? Can you please give me an example of a book that you sideloaded to your device that was removed by Amazon?
I've had Kindles since the very first one, and I've been sideloading from the very beginning. I've also been active in e-reading forums for about the same length of time. I've *never* heard of a sideloaded book being removed by Amazon.
Shari