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Originally Posted by HarryT
Ouch! That strikes me as a completely unreasonable restriction, meaning that you're breaking the terms of the licence agreement if, say, you let your partner or children living in the same house read a book that you've bought, even if on your device.
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It certainly is a rigid interpretation of copyright that I believe is incorrect. The idea of most software packages that allow you to load them on multiple machines is that you will only be permitted to use them one at a time. This is a consistent model that is modeled after book use. The idea is that you can only be in one place at one time. As applied the eBooks I think the restriction is similar to the book case where only one copy should be in use at one time. This permits sharing an eBook by loaning someone your device to read on or letting them use a version on a different device so long as you are not using it in parallel. This usage mimics the hardcopy book usage which is consistent with the copyright law.
Dale