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Originally Posted by haertig
Simple. And it should have been obvious from my previous posts. I bought my Kindle quite a few years ago, before Amazon started doing these book deletions (either on purpose or because of buggy software). And it worked fine. Then as Amazon got more intrusive - reports of them uploading data from your Kindle regarding what you were reading, how you were reading, how fast you were reading, etc. - I thought "that doesn't sound so good". Additionally, they would update your Kindle's software when they wanted to, you had no choice in the matter.
So my Kindle was put into airplane mode permanently. And I changed/removed passwords so the Kindle cannot connect anywhere, even if I were to accidentally take it out of airplane mode. So I don't get automatic updates, and I don't have my books deleted. And my battery lasts longer. As a side benefit, my Kindle is now "ad free" without me having to pay for that. It ran out of ads to display long ago and can't get any more without a network connection.
I am not happy hearing what Amazon is doing now (or if indeed it is a bug, what they are NOT doing by not fixing the bug). But despite that, my Kindle still works fine for my uses while in permanent airplane mode. No need to run out and replace it as a protest against Amazon. Replacing it would not be a very useful protest because Amazon wouldn't even know they were being protested. I would just be spending money that I don't need to spend. Which is stupid. This is the main reason why I am still using a Kindle, since you asked about that.
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Some points of clarification from my initial post about losing all my USB-loaded content from my PW:
1) included in the deleted documents were public domain PDFs that I did not acquire through Amazon, and some AZW3 content I created from my own writing using Calibre. So neither kind of files included any Amazon metadata. Even if they are deleting content "unintentionally" due to some device time drift between internet connections, they know this is happening and apparently have done nothing to fix it. Microsoft/Hewlett Packard do not delete files from my PC even if I alter the device time.
2) Amazon did not delete content I had purchased from them, downloaded to my PC, and then sideloaded to the PW.
3) The option to change or delete the device's WiFi login credentials is greyed out while it is in airplane mode. So, If I want to keep it off the internet permanently (which I do at this point, since I always download purchased content from Amazon to my PC and add the book to my Calibre library, so as to have a reliable local copy), I either have to endure the deletion of all the side-loaded content I re-added to the device a few weeks ago, all over again, or just remember never, ever, to take it out of airplane mode. Right now I prefer the latter, but if I ever do a device reset, I will delete its WiFi password then.