[Arkantos67]

I remember reading like 3-4 cases that users got their accounts banned or deleted because they couldn't prove ownership of more like 100-200 books that were sync to their account on their kindle. I'm asking this because its my birthday and i got a Kindle Paper-white (i would never have bought one) and i love it. So anyone has any info on the subject?? i would really hate my Amazon Account because i have about 200-300 books that i bought with my hard earned money, im a student.

[red6devil]

If you bought the books with your hard earned money then Amazon will not give you any problem; after all you have proof of purchase. But be sure that Amazon does monitor what passes thru your sync account, particularly when volumes are high.

[elhyam]

I too am becoming increasingly paranoid about using my Kindle after reading about Amazon's drastic actions against some users. I have used my Kindle email address to sync a few books but that seems like asking for trouble so I'm going to quit using that route. What I'm wondering is if Amazon also monitors books that I side load directly via USB? Anyone have any knowledge about this?

[diviniwoman]

I don't think so if you upload by USB because when I check my cloud drive on their website to see what the contents listed for my kindle, it doesn't include the books I upload by USB. Also you can't sync them to other Kindle or the Kindle app on your phone or computer. I have to individually upload them to all of my Kindle products. So I don't think they are aware whats on your kindle unless you use the whisper sync method.

[elhyam]

I think you must be right. It would be incredibly devious for them to monitor what you sideload and while I don't put it past them, I can't turn up any evidence of it.

[tadaaaa]

After synching:
In the Kindle app on my iPad, only the books purchased from Amazon for a Kindle device, appear.
Deleted books appear as archived in cloud and books NOT purchased from Amazon do not appear at all.

[elhyam]

If you send books or other documents to your Kindle email address, they will potentially sync to all your devices and be archived in the cloud, just like purchased books. I have concluded for myself that this is safe to do only for truly personal documents.