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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
If you loan your ereader, you are essentially giving the lendee permission to use your entire Amazon account.
Since it is a physical device, I don't think there are any restrictions.
You will be liable if they run up a digital bill.
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You can require a password on a Kindle to purchase a book so that if you lend your spare Kindle to a friend with a book for him to read on it he can't use it for anything except reading books. It's perfectly safe.
I don't know if that's against Amazon's TOS but I have seen it discussed a few times in Amazon's Kindle forum and I've never seen Amazon complain. That's no guarantee they wouldn't care, of course.
Personally I doubt that Amazon would care. They probably have something like that in their TOS in case there's abuse, so they'll have a way to deal with it, but I doubt they'd care if I lent my neighbor a Kindle to read a book.
I buy books from Amazon and remove DRM and send them back to my Kindle as documents so I don't have to worry about having it on too many devices. About 3 or 4 years ago I called Amazon and asked them if this is okay, since I do value my relationship with them and depend on them. The guy I talked with asked around and said not only did no-one there see any difficulty, a lot of them do similar things at times.
A year later when Amazon had cracked down on a lot of stuff I called again and got a similar response.
This isn't related to sharing a Kindle with a book on it but I think it does show that Amazon isn't interested in hampering it's customers in normal activities.
I was brought up with the idea that sharing things like books with friends and family is something good people do. I still think that. I suspect most of the people at Amazon think so too.
I think most people who would want to do this would only do it after they've read the book and been impressed by it, and if so the principle that only one copy at a time is being read is maintained. Probably not always true. Probably mostly true.
Barry