Re: Who's driving?
The kindle does not have a proprietary driver. It is possible that Windows includes a kindle-friendly driver in the basic OS, but I think it is far more likely that this is the bog-standard driver for a USB-storage-class device. The BSOD may also be triggered by other (less common) storage devices, or it may be triggered by something in the USB device descriptors issued by a kindle paperwhite. The latter is more likely, but it is still embarrassingly poor programming from MS if Win10 can be made to BSOD based on data it receives from an external device. (It is a major security problem if someone who doesn't even have an account on the machine can DoS the box given a few seconds of physical access.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
