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FF2 · 01-05-2011, 11:23 AM

I hope this is not considered thread-jacking but would like to follow up on the idea that the books I (or the generic "one") downloads to kindle-4-pc (or mac or ...)

Does each version of kindle-4-pc encode books differently on different pc's? In other workds I was using kindle-4-pc on my desktop win-vista machine. It's c:drive just had an untimely death and it in being serviced. So I installed k-4-pc on my netbook. I have been downloading to it for the last week. Are the "ebooks" differently coded or linked to each specific pc or can I use the books downloaded on this netbook on my desktop when it recovers? Or will I have to download again each book to be attached/associated/linked/married/tied" back to the desktop?

I guess another way of asking is when FF2 (my id here) downloads books from Amazon, are they coded for FF2 so that no matter which pc (netbook, laptop, desktop) I download to, gets the same coded version or is each copy of that same book coded separately for each individual machine?

Skipping the idea of stripping the drm for the moment - which would make them more universal.

Or should I create a new thread to discuss this idea?

01-05-2011, 11:23 AM	#4
FF2 Wizard Posts: 1,105 Karma: 1025784 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: WiFi Kindle3	I hope this is not considered thread-jacking but would like to follow up on the idea that the books I (or the generic "one") downloads to kindle-4-pc (or mac or ...) Does each version of kindle-4-pc encode books differently on different pc's? In other workds I was using kindle-4-pc on my desktop win-vista machine. It's c:drive just had an untimely death and it in being serviced. So I installed k-4-pc on my netbook. I have been downloading to it for the last week. Are the "ebooks" differently coded or linked to each specific pc or can I use the books downloaded on this netbook on my desktop when it recovers? Or will I have to download again each book to be attached/associated/linked/married/tied" back to the desktop? I guess another way of asking is when FF2 (my id here) downloads books from Amazon, are they coded for FF2 so that no matter which pc (netbook, laptop, desktop) I download to, gets the same coded version or is each copy of that same book coded separately for each individual machine? Skipping the idea of stripping the drm for the moment - which would make them more universal. Or should I create a new thread to discuss this idea? Last edited by FF2; 01-05-2011 at 11:26 AM.