Thread: Amazon removed books from my Kindle
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Old 02-04-2024, 01:01 PM   #201
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by haertig View Post
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?

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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.
I agree that amazon is becoming increasingly cavalier about deleting user content, but as more descriptions come in and get discussed it looks like some kind of sync bug, possibly clock drift releated. The on kindle databases have a large number of columns, several of which are date-time related.

amazon has always been slow to even acknowledge a bug even exists unless it is affecting a lot of people in a serious way.

I suspect kindle firmware and associated server software is extremely convoluted and prone to unexpected side effects and downright incorrect logic. It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of kindle code assumes negligible clock drift since last sync and also that clock sync is not the top priority upon internet connection.

If punishment for failure to go out of airplane mode often enough is the intent, why not make it clear that staying in airplane mode "too long" is dangerous? The naggings to connect don't seem to have any threats.
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