And just to add a decorative layer of irony... the books that Amazon remotely deleted? 1984 and Animal Farm. Orwellian treatment of Orwell's books.
Double-plus ungood.
Since I have a Kindle, I'm keeping it... but I might back up to my hard drive a little more frequently. (It's way easy; just hook up a USB cable and it's treated like an external drive)
PJ