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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
No, Smashwords and some other stores have said it's against their TOS to loan your reader with books on it to another person--including your spouse. You're supposed to buy another copy if a second person is going to read the books, even on the same device.
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1. Purchased works: As End User, you acknowledge that all Work furnished by Smashwords is licensed for the use of the End Users of the Site and may not be sublicensed or resold. If you purchase a work, you hold a non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-distributable right of use. In other words, you are free to enjoy it for your own use, but you are not authorized to share, sell, or distribute the work to others.
It doesn't say anything about loaning readers. My spouse owns everything that I own, that reader and book are as much hers as mine. If someone comes over to my house, I can't hand them my Kindle at let them read? I can't see that ever standing up. Yes, restrictions on giving them a copy, certainly. But restricting someone from reading on my device, that's a little shaky.