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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, you aren't. You can create as many copies as you wish for personal use - that is implicit in the sale.
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I'm pretty sure that's not true in the US.
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They aren't "stealing the book", but if, for example, your contract with the bookstore says (as most of them do) that the content is licensed for your personal use only, then your aunt, mum, or friend, are not licensed to read the book. But I very, very seriously doubt that anyone is going to either know or care!
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Amazon has explicitly advertised (not just implied) that they intend for the content sold by them to be shared among family members--Kindle Free time couldn't exist otherwise. Since they themselves are encouraging people to act in a way that breaks the contract, wouldn't the contract be null and void? I'm pretty sure that if a person were ever to have their account closed and their content locked for breaking Amazon's TOS they could successfully sue based on the fact that all of Amazon's advertising encourages sharing of content within a Kindle account, no matter what the TOS says.
Shari