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Originally Posted by nabsltd
There are many, many reasons that deleting the record of purchase is very bad, and #1 is to protect you from fraud.
If somebody gets your Amazon account information, they could buy eBooks up to your credit card limit, download them to a Kindle (either direct or via "download and transfer via USB) they had activated on your account, strip the DRM, and have the eBooks. Then, they remove the Kindle from your account.
Then, if Amazon did it your way, they could completely remove any indication that the items had been purchased...it wouldn't show in "Content and Devices", or in "Your Orders", etc. The only thing you would have is a lot of credit card charges that were for the kind of things you had previously purchased.
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Agreed, I never expected the whole purchase or acquisition history to be removed from Amazon - I can see it being deleted from the account as an owned book with permanently delete, but the history/records have to still be there. It's a "store"
Either way, it's not the same argument, as the OP said
I have always gone to "Manage My Content" after returning a Kindle Unlimited book and told it to delete the book. Same for library books FWIW. I leave only the books that I have actually purchased. This is a minor privacy thing to me. Not a huge deal, but something I have always done.
Obviously the Kindle Unlimited and Library books are borrowed, not purchases, so there's no reason to go into content and devices and permanently delete --- that feature is for purchased books you want to permanently delete. The KU and Library borrow will have different record tracking anyway and gets more complicated. They have to track what's borrowed from KU to pay authors automatically and any hidden limits, and libraries is outside app they coordinate with for similar reasons.