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Originally Posted by Sirtel
As I understand the issue, it's not that those books don't exist on your account; they well may if they've been purchased from Amazon. What matters is that to Amazon's knowledge, they've not been downloaded to your Kindle and so shouldn't exist there. Hence the deleting.
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That kind of thinking by Amazon wouldn't make any sense. Since they themselves provide "Download & transfer via USB". That doesn't require WiFi. Thus they shouldn't care that WiFi "has been turned off for a while" and start deleting books triggering on that (or so it appears).
My thoughts on this problem have changed over time. They went from "this could be accidental or an oversight" to "they'd have to be stupid to do this" to "this is intentional and malicious". We'll see what the next revelation in this thread brings to change my mind again.
As it stands right now, I will keep my Kindle in permanent airplane mode. And when it breaks, I will replace it with some other non-Amazon eReader. If that were today, it would probably be a Kobo. However, I will keep an open mind for new developments and information to change my view on this. None of us really knows what is happening or why - we're all just speculating, but that speculation is really narrowing down to the meat of the issue because of people like @jhowell (thanks!) who are doing testing on this. Not looking too good right now for ethics at Amazon. It appears to me that they have moved from incompetent to unethical, given the newest information.