Is Amazon's Kindle a Living Text?

The idea that Amazon or anyone would retroactively alter books you've already downloaded to me seems like a very different proposition and quite a concerning one. I think maybe it's this sort of thing draws attention to the idea that what you have on your Kindle is an ephemeral digital one. You don't own it. It's really a portal to a text held on the server somewhere. And it's completely different to owning a book in so many ways.