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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I know I do. I share with family. That's against the EULA. And I will country hop in order to buy books I cannot get locally.
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I can only speak of Amazon USA on this issue but I have called them and discussed this and other issues with them. I live in a rural area and I don't have a car so I depend on them and don't want to hurt my relationship with them.
I asked their customer service people if they have any concerns about my having a spare Kindle to loan books to my neighbors in my retirement home. The answer was that they simply don't care. I've called about this one about every year or two just to be safe and the answer is the same.
I backup my books and, unless it's a book with X-Ray and a LOT of characters I'll upload the unprotected copy and download it as a doc. Nearly all these were bought from Amazon. I've asked about this twice and both times I've asked them to check with supervisors to be sure and both times I've been told that there's no problem.
I think much of what's in Amazon's TOS is about protecting themselves from abuse, not about keeping us from doing the things honest people normally do.
That said, once before Audible was bought out by Amazon I said something about removing DRM from my audiobooks so I could listen on non-Audible ready devices. These were books I bought from Audible. I received a message from their lawyer saying that if I want to continue as a customer and a forum member I'd have to sign an agreement not to discuss that on the forum again. I signed it and that was that. They never asked me to agree to stop removing DRM. Just not to mention it.
Since I've been reading Kindle books I haven't done any Audible DRM removal so I don't know if being part of Amazon has changed how they feel about that or not.
Anyway my point is that to Amazon much of their TOS seems to be more a legal document in case they need it than something they're really interested in enforcing.
Barry