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Old 04-15-2020, 09:43 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by shalym View Post
To settle the "download limits" vs "simultaneous device usage" argument, here is a screenshot taken this morning from Amazon. This is from the book "On Basilisk Station" by David Webber.

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And to settle the "You have to de-register a device in order to free up a simultaneous device usage slot" argument:

Here's an image of my Amazon Content & Devices account page showing a Hachette title that is currently on 6 devices/apps simultaneously, and can't be downloaded to another device.

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I then go to the Fire10 device listed above and delete the book (NOT de-register) from that device; sync content, and refresh my Amazon Content & Devices account page and can see that it has freed up a slot:

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And then I can immediately download the title to a different device/app to bring the total to six again. Which makes it full again and I'm once again unable to put it on another device (until I delete it from a device/app).

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No de-registering necessary. Tried it by deleting via the device/app (both kindle devices and non-kindle devices) and the results were always the same: deleting books from devices frees up Simultaneous Device Usage slots. The only reason one would need to deregister the device/app is if you don't have access to to the device/app to remove the book from it.

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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
You have frequently said that the one true way is to do as you do, download the book you are reading, read it, delete it and never look at it again, so I fail to see if that is your approach, that you would have ever run into it. That means you are working from your assumptions of how it works.
Now that I have forced the issue on Simultaneous Device Usage for a title, feel free to understand that I am no longer working from any assumptions whatsoever. I am now basing my posts on "how it works."

Last edited by DiapDealer; 04-15-2020 at 01:07 PM. Reason: clarification
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