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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
If you give a sideloaded book the EBOK tag, how is Amazon supposed to know that this book is not a book that you've deleted from your account and thus should be deleted from the device upon sync? That seems like an unreasonable expectation to me if the book is using the very piece of metadata that Amazon uses to make this determination, instead of the PDOC tag that, presumably, exists in part to prevent this exact problem.
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That's exactly it. Amazon should not delete a book UNLESS the user has, in fact, deleted it from their account. And yes, they managed to do it this way (keeping track of actual user deletions) just fine since the first Kindle in 2007. Only recently they apparently automated something and now we have this mess as the result.
How do other retailers do it with their devices? Does Kobo delete all my sideloaded kepubs when I sync my Kobo device, because kepubs should mean books purchased from Kobo and they don't exist on my Kobo account? Nope. Kobo keeps track of what I actually delete and doesn't play guessing games. And Amazon did the same until recently.