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Originally Posted by Quoth
Except, legally, they can't do that. There is a longer answer. In fact, even if a bug, this is criminal behaviour by Amazon, even if the content was illicit, though usually it's not.
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This discussion comes back often, and for this I tend to side with Amazon somewhat. The books are not deleted as part of some Orwellian plot aiming to erase history; it is just a side-effect of the misuse of the EBOK tag in a proprietary field used by Amazon to identify books they provide vs other books. As they operate a loan service (either through KU or Libby), there is a legitimate use case for deleting books that appear to be Amazon-sourced without a valid license.
Amazon doesn’t delete personal documents, regardless of what they are. If one is concerned about losing sideloaded books, they can just flag them as PDOC.