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Originally Posted by j.p.s
It's already been suggested and widely agreed that this is probably a bug.
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And it has also been suggested/implied that this may be intentional. See your own post #116 in this thread.
No I didn't miss it. But if someone makes a suggestion, is that supposed to be the end-all answer and close the issue to any further discussion?
Personally, I would think that any company worth their salt would take seriously users concerns that their data is being deleted from their devices, if that company did not intend to do that. Furthermore, there are many in this thread who report it happening to them. So the problem appears to be repeatable. And not all that rare. There are probably precious few places in Amazons Kindle software where the code actually deletes anything. It should be pretty straightforward for a software developer to be able to backtrack from those places and trace down a triggering event. This does not feel like a corruption issue where there was no coded "delete" operation in play. Everything on the Kindle appears fine from reports I have read - except for the deleted content. Those are not the footprints of a random corruption issue.
So FWIW, even though "it's been suggested" that this is a bug, I am not in total agreement with that suggestion quite yet. My main reason being that it does not appear to be a bug by the way Amazon is treating it. They seem to be ignoring it. A bug that deletes user data? That's a heck of a thing to ignore, even for Amazon. This does not pass the smell test. From what people have reported in this thread, I think the deletion is intentional. That's just my theory. "Intentional" is not a synonym for "malicious". It could just be misguided logic. Or it could be just a stupid thing to do, that they didn't think through initially.