Amazon removed books from my Kindle - Page 57

CamilleScholtz · 08-23-2025, 12:54 PM

A quick summary of the thread from what I gather, correct me if I'm wrong: AZW3 and KFX books that are marked with EBOK rather than PDOC get removed after a device comes online after having been offline for an extended amount of time.

Does anyone actually know what this timeframe is? Days? Weeks?

Also I saw someone ask if there are any differences between EBOK and PDOC, for me the reason to use EBOK is because generated x-ray files (using calibre's WordDumb plugin) only work with EBOK.

Sirtel · 08-23-2025, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by CamilleScholtz

Does anyone actually know what this timeframe is? Days? Weeks?

Weeks, it looks like. No one knows exactly.

slm · 08-24-2025, 12:09 AM

Some of the speculation was that this happens when the kindle's clock is too far out of sync with the network clock. A Kindle with the wifi on updates its time from the network regularly. A Kindle with the wifi off, relies on the internal timekeeping chip. This tend to drift slowly, but the drift is not very predictable, which would be consistent with the observations that the time is not very predictable.

DNSB · 08-24-2025, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by slm

Some of the speculation was that this happens when the kindle's clock is too far out of sync with the network clock. A Kindle with the wifi on updates its time from the network regularly. A Kindle with the wifi off, relies on the internal timekeeping chip. This tend to drift slowly, but the drift is not very predictable, which would be consistent with the observations that the time is not very predictable.

Not totally certain but back when this was still a big issue, I tried taking my Kindle offline, setting the clock about 26 hours ahead and then turning WiFi back on. No effect. The time that I left it in Airplane mode for 5 weeks, the time had drifted by less that a minute before I turned WiFi back on and the books were removed.

I still tend to suspect that after a Kindle has been offline for an extended period, Amazon checks the books to see if any books are present that are no longer in your Amazon account, whether they be returned KU, deleted purchases or sideloaded books with an ASIN, so any books with a valid ASIN that are not present in your books are removed.

roddy20 · 08-25-2025, 04:35 AM

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Originally Posted by roddy20

hello!
maybe, someone knows how to remove this dialog?
since amazon blocked my account I don't want to deal with them anymore
or point to the right topic, please
Thanks

I mean, maybe its possible to edit/replace some files on kindle filesystem?
if you don't know how really to do this, please don't write idiotic answers to register again or buy a new device
thanks

texasnightowl · 08-26-2025, 06:59 AM

I swear. Amazon is pushing me into switching little by little. I just had 20 or more books deleted. I had some KU books I wanted to download so turned off airplane mode and synced. Big mistake. All sideloaded books...including some that are just fanfic from Ao3...got deleted. Poof.

To be fair, I probably converted them to azw3 and so were ebok type instead of kfx/pdoc. But still. Amazon is pissing me off. ��

It had only been about 2 weeks since I last synced too! So not a long time!

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08-23-2025, 12:54 PM	#841
CamilleScholtz Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2025 Device: Kindle 11	A quick summary of the thread from what I gather, correct me if I'm wrong: AZW3 and KFX books that are marked with EBOK rather than PDOC get removed after a device comes online after having been offline for an extended amount of time. Does anyone actually know what this timeframe is? Days? Weeks? Also I saw someone ask if there are any differences between EBOK and PDOC, for me the reason to use EBOK is because generated x-ray files (using calibre's WordDumb plugin) only work with EBOK.

08-24-2025, 12:09 AM	#843
slm Fool Posts: 478 Karma: 4113712 Join Date: Feb 2003 Device: Kindle: Voyage,PW1,KOA, Kobo: Clara Colour, Nook GLP, Pocketbook verse	Some of the speculation was that this happens when the kindle's clock is too far out of sync with the network clock. A Kindle with the wifi on updates its time from the network regularly. A Kindle with the wifi off, relies on the internal timekeeping chip. This tend to drift slowly, but the drift is not very predictable, which would be consistent with the observations that the time is not very predictable.

08-26-2025, 06:59 AM	#846
texasnightowl Guru Posts: 799 Karma: 2873645 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Texas Device: PW5, Oasis 3, K4B(NT), K3/KK	I swear. Amazon is pushing me into switching little by little. I just had 20 or more books deleted. I had some KU books I wanted to download so turned off airplane mode and synced. Big mistake. All sideloaded books...including some that are just fanfic from Ao3...got deleted. Poof. To be fair, I probably converted them to azw3 and so were ebok type instead of kfx/pdoc. But still. Amazon is pissing me off. �� It had only been about 2 weeks since I last synced too! So not a long time!