Thread: Can calibre be used to share ebooks?
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Old 11-13-2015, 10:04 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib View Post
However, with Amazon, you are only allowed to share your ebook purchase with ONE OTHER FAMILY MEMBER - not two, which you wish to do. That is not allowed.
This is not the whole story. One can share fully with another adult account as a 'family library', and add up to four children's accounts in the same household as well.

See the Amazon help page for Family Library

In addition, Amazon are happy for you to loan kindle devices registered to your account to other people, or indeed for you to share your account password with another person so that they can register their Kindle to your account and access your ebooks that way.

See the reply I got in 2012 from Customer Service on this topic here.

Of course, this is completely different to lending out a Kindle loaded up with de-DRMed ebooks. Doing so would definitely be infringement.
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