Thread: Amazon removed books from my Kindle
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Old 10-11-2024, 04:47 PM   #622
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by Sirtel View Post
IMO Amazon should never, ever mess with any content on users' devices without explicit action on the user's part (unless the item in question is a loan). Just as they managed for more than a decade before this current mess started. I don't much care whether it's intentional or a bug; it just shouldn't happen.
It could well be that when the sever and the kindle compare states they conclude that the user went to whatever the manage content and devices page is called this week and marked that book to be deleted from that device. An easy way to implement that request is to remove that book from the list of books on that device. No need to have lists of pending requests and protocols to handle them.

There is a long history of such strategies. Many OS handle file deletions by removing the directory entry and marking the storage blocks as available.
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