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This happend to my kindle to! After keeping in in flight mode for years I put it online again in order to buy a few new books from the kindle store, poof sudden
by andwaal 2y ago
This happend to my kindle to! After keeping in in flight mode for years I put it online again in order to buy a few new books from the kindle store, poof suddenly my entire library of side loaded books was gone, with progress and everything. I could see random metadata files related to the books on the drive, be books was gone. Super annoying as many of the books I didn't have locally anymore and to loose the "archivement" of finished books sucks big time.
I can see this may be implemented by amazon to counter piracy, but alot of these books was perfectly legal.
So the result of this is that I will never put my kindle online again and just stop buying from the Kindle store.
- heelix 2y agoSame, though I don't think it is going to help Amazon the way they hope it does. I moved books over to my kindle and had it nuke my humble bundle collections when I added a purchase from Amazon. I've not connect it again until I figure out how to backup and restore MY metadata.
- mcmcmc 2y agoWon’t help with restoring metadata, but if you add books by using the “email to kindle” feature it will keep them in your library through syncs
- throwaway48476 2y agoI had an issue exactly like this with my iPad.
- gullevek 2y agoKeep mine in Aeroplane mode. Download books I buy on Amazon directly from amazon and drop them into calibre. Amazon doesn't get to touch my Kindle ever. Thinking hard if I ever want to get another Kindle when Amazon can just screw around with what I put on my Kindle ...
- bufferoverflow 2y agoI just email epubs (as .txt) to my kindle's email address and they show up on the device in a couple of minutes. Never had any books just vanish. I find it easier than converting to Kindle format and then copying over USB.
- dmd 2y agoWhy email epubs as txt? You can just email the epubs. I do it every day.