Ohio (AP) — When June Stevens bought her Amazon Kindle 2 last month, she never expected the device to start editing her books. But it has, and even Amazon is at a loss to explain why."I first noticed my Kindle — it calls itself Claire — would start changing text, right there on the screen, while I was reading," claims Miss Stevens, a retired elementary school teacher. "I tried turning it on and off, but it — she — told me to stop that."The Kindle edited Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ down to half its published length. The treatment meted out to author John Grisham’s books was even harsher; in two cases, the entire work was replaced by a single sentence which read ‘Just re-read ‘The Firm’ instead.’A spokesman for Amazon, the giant Internet bookseller who sells the Kindle reader, would only state that ‘no Kindle was manufactured with the capability to edit any text in any way.’ He appeared nervous, however, when a voice from his desk began to critique the latest Tom Clancy spy thriller.Miss Stevens has no plans to return Claire the Kindle, she says, noting that ‘it had some really good ideas for improving Shakespeare’s public-domain sonnets.’

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