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Have you ever made backups of your Kindle content? I know I haven’t. So, imagine my surprise when I came across this YouTube video.

In short, you can at any time (depending on Amazon’s whims) lose all your downloaded content from Amazon. Even the ebooks you’ve bought and downloaded to your Kindle e-reader or the app. The reason is that you haven’t actually bought the books. You have only bought a temporary licence to read them. So, that means that Amazon can update or remove the content when they want to, and they can also close your account if they suddenly decide to do so (and I know very well how quickly they can decide to close you down, so I don’t trust them at all).

I’m just….WHAT?

Right now, I have about 3500 books on that app. And many years ago, I even bought a Kindle e-reader. (Something that I will never do again.)

Bottom line: I paid for those books so I’m keeping them. Even if it means that I have to download them one by one.

So, have you backed up your content? Or are you still hoping that Amazon will be reasonable?