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Originally Posted by BionicGecko
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.
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No, it's not legitimate even if a bug. They need a court order in most countries. It's no different to a library manager entering your house without permission and removing an overdue library book.
I'm assuming it's a bug they need to fix. They should never delete anything on an app or a Kindle unless the user has flagged it, maybe on their "Content" web page. Amazon are entitled to delete "cloud" content, if they give a warning in advance. They've done that, which is legitmate (mp3s?).