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Originally Posted by jhowell
You will probably have to re-download most of your books. Most books sold by Amazon have DRM and Amazon's DRM locks books so that they can only be read on the device to which they were originally downloaded. They are tied to the device, not your Amazon account.
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For clarity, "they" has two meanings here.
- "they" = the copy of the books on a device: the DRM in these, if any, is tied to a particular device. If they have DRM, and most will, they can't be moved to another device and read there.
- "they" = the book you bought from Amazon: these are tied to your account and can be downloaded again without repurchasing to any device associated with the same account. Books purchased on one account can't be downloaded to a new device unless the new device is associated with the same account.