|
Removing books from my Kindle? I don't want that. Updating firmware on my Kindle without my permission? I don't want that. Deleting book covers from my Kindle? I don't want that. The easiest way to prevent all these undesirable things is to prevent Amazon from being able to ever touch my Kindle. And the easiest way to do that is to cut the network connection (most easily done by leaving the thing in airplane mode permanently).
There are a few things I lose out on by keeping my Kindle "network free". Syncing reading position, notes, etc. But I don't care about that (though others might). As I understand it, back when I was still using KU (I would "download for USB transfer" and then side load them), authors were probably not getting paid due to Amazon agreements to only pay them for pages read. Again, I don't care about that. That's between the authors and Amazon - nothing in their agreement mandates that I keep my Kindle online.
Since none of the things I lose being off-network matter to me, the perfect solution (for me) is to always keep my Kindle offline. I can side load all my books. And I can manually update firmware, not that I think I'd ever want to do that and possibly give Amazon a back door in, but I could.
This is my permanent "fix" for my Kindle. It will remain this way until it dies. It works fine for my needs exactly as-is. It's not a bad device. Hardware-wise, and software-wise (firmware 5.9.4) I think my Paperwhite is a fine device actually. It's the Amazon mothership hovering overhead that is the bad part - the part that needs to be cut off from access.
|