Yup! We can share books! For instance if I am on the bus on the way to class, and I purchase a new book, at that point in time the other two kindles on my account are able to download that same book to read! I can't do that with a pbook! I'm not sure if the subscription we are planning on getting to wallstreet journal will be delivered to all three devices or if that is only for one device...That's not as important as being able to share the books though. Just curious. Anyone with more than one kindle right now know the answer to that?
This also opens up interesting possibilities to me. For instance, I meet John Smith here on the mobile read forums. If he has 10-15 books I haven't read, perhaps he could add me as an authorized kindle on his account for a period of time, till I read those, and I could return the favor! Or if I trust someone enough to change the billing info each time they want to purchase a book, just add John Smith to my account right from the beginning so that all the books we purchase we share, and don't have to purchase some books multiple times. I'm not sure about the feasability of that, or how far my trust goes, but it is an interesting possibility to be sure.
What is really awesome is that while I await my shiny Kindles I have already set up a different nick name for all three, along with setting up our kindle email addresses. The website allows me to browse the books and request that they "send a sample to my kindle". The other kindles on my account are able to request different samples as well. We wanted to make a wish list for each of us, but when that escaped my capabilities I just decided to send a sample for each book I might like to buy, so I can read the first chapter and then decide to purchase or not. Pretty cool considering I don't have the kindle yet, and it's a bit of a tide-me-over while I wait.
Also, I've played around with the conversion. I sent a .doc ebook I received from the baen free library to
myname@free.kindle.com, and they sent me back the document in .azw format. Of course I cannot read it yet, and before converting all my hundreds of books only to discover that I needed to make a change to the name of the file for purposes of organization, I decided to hold off till I put that one book on the reader and see how it looks.
Does anyone who has a kindle now know what the name the document gets when you send it? Is it just the name of the document? Also, how are the books organized on the reader? Anything like Sony's collections? Or is it mainly the search feature that you use? Is there any form of organization that you determine?