An Orwellian gaffe involving the Kindle e-book reader just wont go down the memory hole for Amazon.com.

On Thursday, a Chicago-based law firm filed a suit in federal court in Seattle against Amazon on behalf of Justin D. Gawronski, a 17-year-old Michigan high school senior. The suit, which seeks class-action status, claims that when the company wirelessly deleted a copy of George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four from Gawronski's Kindle earlier this month, it also deleted the notes he had taken on the device for his homework.

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