One could argue that you're not buying the book though, as Amazon can remove the book from your device later without your consent. And as we know, that's that a

One could argue that you're not buying the book though, as Amazon can remove the book from your device later without your consent. And as we know, that's that a theoretical threat, it happened with the book 1984 in 2009. While you could keep your Kindle in airplane mode all the time to prevent that, if you do you will miss out on the ability to easy "purchase" and go back to a world where you have to side-load.