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Old 09-11-2015, 01:40 PM   #25
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Nothing happens to them. You won't be able to read books with DRM while your Kindle is unregistered, but you will as soon as you register it again. Nothing gets deleted.
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That's interesting. It's certainly the case that if you register the Kindle to a different account, you can't read books that you put on it for the original account. I hadn't realised that you could read DRM-protected books if it wasn't registered at all. Thanks for the correction (not that it changes the basis of what I was saying, which is that nothing gets removed by deregistering and reregistering ).
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But Kindles are registered to accounts, which is precisely what I said, is it not?
Since Kindle DRM is tied to the device ID, you can even read them while unregistered, registered to a different account, whatever.

The only thing you cannot do is download books encrypted for that device, that is what registering does.
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