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Old 10-17-2011, 09:13 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
You can have as many devices registered as you wish. The 6-device limit is the number of devices that you can transfer a particular book to, not the number of devices that you can have registered.
There is no such 6 device limit.

The number of devices that a book can be transferred to is set by the publisher.

5 is the default and is used by most publishers, but some will only allow users to have a book on one device.

Other publishers offer content without DRM (which allows you to put it on an unlimited number of devices).

Amazon's product pages normally state when a book can be used on either just one device or on unlimited devices:

e.g.

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Java-...856817&sr=1-10

Note "Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited" under Product details - this book has no DRM so can be put on as many devices as you want


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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn View Post
Shows how little I know. Once you have more than six devices wouldn't it b a challenge to keep track on what books are on which devices?
Potentially, although you can always just Deregister a device from www.amazon.com/myk and that should free up the book licences for that device for reuse.

There aren't any restrictions on registering and deregistering devices, so the system is flexible enough to do this.

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