If I buy an ebook, I absolutely have to make sure I can sever the link between the seller and what I bought with Calibre.
Whether it’s from Amazon, Kobo, etc., they can alter what you bought by claiming it’s an update: you think you’re installing an OS update but they just might be censuring sentences, altering the text or entire pages of the work you bought.
There were a few articles about this cancelling wokism happening in the literary world, like for 1984 by George Orwell.
A few examples:
It’s Their Content, You’re Just Licensing it
Roald Dahl ebooks ‘force censored versions on readers’ despite backlash
How do we Know our eBooks are not being Altered?
Kindle Forced Censored ‘Updates’ Of Previously Purchased E Books On Readers
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