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Re:The all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle by thih9 on Thursday October 17, 2024 @04:46AM (#41867629)
> When it started deleting books i had side-loaded via calibre

This is news to me. All my kindle library is books side loaded via calibre. Then again, my kindle paperwhite is non stop in airplane mode so maybe this is a factor. In any case this is alarming and thanks for the feedback, I will read more about non-Amazon devices because of that.

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Re:The all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle by bambax on Thursday October 17, 2024 @05:10AM (#41867768)
All my Kindle library is also books side loaded via Calibre (sent to my kindle email address). I have been doing that for years (more than an decade actually) and have never had any book deleted by the device. Is this real?
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Re:The all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle by imp0cat on Thursday October 17, 2024 @05:23AM (#41867823)
It's explained elswhere in this thread - only the "DRM'ed" ebooks that "belong" to another Kindle are deleted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866327

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Re:The all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle by bambax on Thursday October 17, 2024 @05:50AM (#41867979)
Ah, ok. I always de-DRM everything automatically (opening books in Calibre does the de-drming). It sometimes happen with the newer systems that newer Kindle books can't be de-drmed, but then I return those immediately.

But I'm surprised a book with DRM can even be added to another device than the one it belongs to, let alone be opened?

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Re:The all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle by dotancohen on Thursday October 17, 2024 @06:13AM (#41868108) 

  > I'm surprised a book with DRM can even be added to another device than the one it belongs to, let alone be opened?
It is probably a path that could potentially lead to another sale. The user reads a few pages of the book, gets hooked, and then is told about the restriction.
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Re:The all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle by thimabi on Thursday October 17, 2024 @05:32AM (#41867885)
That happens on sideloaded books that belong to the same device as well, at least on my Kindle Scribe. These books disappear occasionally, and I have not found a consistent way to make them reappear in the UI. Sometimes they return on their own, other times they do not. Interestingly, their files remain on the Kindle’s file system.
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