I have one Kindle, and it comes with me if I think I'm going to have the opportunity to read when I'm out of the house.
I like the "e-reader" experience, and I have no desire to read books on a phone or tablet. I don't need the sync functionality, or to be able to look things up on the internet (not being able to do that is a feature as far as I'm concerned!). I download the ebooks themselves using the Kindle application on my computer (if I'm using Amazon to get them, which I don't always), and then use Calibre to manage/import/convert/strip DRM from them. I seem to remember having to allow it to connect to Amazon once when I first took it out of the box, but since then, no network connectivity at all, and zero problems as a result. Mine has been in aeroplane mode since the day I got it. Zql=Kindle%20Collects%20a%20Surprisingly%20Large%20Amount%20of%20DataĮqm=https%3A%2F%%2Fkindle-collects-a-surprisingly-large-amount-of-data%2F There are valid concerns here (there's too much information being sent overall - the location data doesn't need to be sent with every page turn, for example), but these concerns are being buried behind FUD about none of this data needing to be transmitted.ĮDIT: Can I also point out the ironic nature of griping about Amazon's analytics collection while running an analytics suite on the webpage yourself? And, when you highlight a word, the translation, definition, and wiki page is brought up, so of course it's being sent to bing and wikipedia.
It's also appropriate to tie a location to a device, so you can pick the appropriate device to sync your position from. To sync a "last read page" across devices, you need to send a location back to Amazon. This statement - "None of these requests appear to be used for customer features like last read location." - bugs me, because it's fairly obviously false, and detracts from the real concerns.
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