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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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