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Originally Posted by schulzmc
I don't believe this is true. I think each ebook is tied to your account - and can be read on any Kindles on that account. So when my Kindle 2 comes I will be able to download books from that account to either Kindle. If I download a book to my computer that book should be able to work on either Kindle if transferred manually.
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I don't have two Kindles to test this, but if you had six Kindles it is impossible for one ebook file to support all 6 because MOBI only has room for 4 PIDs (4 Kindles) in its DRM tables. For this and other reasons, if I was Amazon I would tie each ebook file to a single Kindle. This is the easiest approach, and given the whispernet-centric delivery model there is no reason not to lock each
file to a single Kindle. Note that you can have the same ebook on up to six Kindles, but they don't have to be identical
files (the encryption can make them different). It is always dangerous to mentally reverse engineer a delivery system (because there can be real issues you are unaware of, or because the delivery system isn't optimal) but I would bet each file is locked to one Kindle. This is easy for someone with two Kindles to confirm or refute. If the files are identical, then why is Amazon doing such an apparently idiotic thing (i.e. what advantage to this approach am I missing)?