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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Haven't heard anyone with the annotations and bookmarks explanation before. It may or may not be true. But it's clear that the claims that revised versions of books can't be pulled down is wrong.
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Stephen Windwalker documented it in his Kindle Guides (and has posted it several times, in various places). CS is often clueless about the problem, but will almost always assist you in the swap (if not, hang up and call again).
So far, what he has documented has held true for me (and several others on the kindleboards and the amazon boards), but there might be even more "gotchas" to watch for.
From Amazon's point of view, it makes a bit of sense. Someone looked at those saved locations and said "if we let them download the new version, their notes and bookmarks won't line up and we'll get a bunch of calls and complaints (and bad press); therefore, we'll simply save the version at the time of backup and always give them that one". If only we could have a menu item inside a book that said "update me" and then a warning if we had any notes/marks that said something line "warning, location numbers may change with a new version and existing marks may not line up with the correct references; proceed? y/n", then life would be perfect (at least in KindleLand) and we would not all have to keep calling back to get books swapped, for whatever reason we are doing so (often due to atrocious formatting or the publisher's inability to spell the name of the book correctly, such as
Tha Hobbit).
Karen
http://booksontheknob.blogspot.com/