Amazon removing the ability to download your purchased books
" Starting on February 26th, 2025, Amazon is removing a feature from its website allowing you to download purchased books to a computer...
It doesn’t happen frequently, but as Good e-Reader points out, Amazon has occasionally removed books from its online store and remotely deleted them from Kindles or edited titles and re-uploaded new copies to its e-readers... It’s a reminder that you don’t actually own much of the digital content you consume, and without the ability to back up copies of ebooks, you could lose them entirely if they’re banned and removed "
https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transfer-usb
Edit (placing it here for visibility):
All right, i know many keep bringing up to use Library services, and I agree. However, don't forget to also make sure they get support in terms of funding and legislation. Here is an article from 2023 to illustrate why:
" A recent ALA press release revealed that the number of reported challenges to books and materials in 2022 was almost twice as high as 2021. ALA documented 1,269 challenges in 2022, which is a 74% increase in challenges from 2021 when 729 challenges were reported. The number of challenges reported in 2022 is not only significantly higher than 2021, but the largest number of challenges that has ever been reported in one year since ALA began collecting this data 20 years ago "
https://www.lrs.org/2023/04/03/libraries-faced-a-flood-of-challenges-to-books-and-materials-in-2022/
This is a video from PBS Digital Studios on bookbanning. Is from 2020 (I think) but I find it quite informative
" When we talk about book bannings today, we are usually discussing a specific choice made by individual schools, school districts, and libraries made in response to the moralistic outrage of some group. This is still nothing in comparison to the ways books have been removed, censored, and destroyed in the past. Let's explore how the seemingly innocuous book has survived centuries of the ban hammer. "
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-fiery-history-of-banned-books-2xatnk/
" Between January 1 and August 31, 2024, ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 414 attempts to censor library materials and services. In those cases, 1,128 unique titles were challenged. In the same reporting period last year, ALA tracked 695 attempts with 1,915 unique titles challenged "
https://www.ala.org/bbooks/book-ban-data
Link to Book Banning Discussion 2025