Thread: What's with the Paranoia?
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Old 02-20-2021, 04:53 PM   #389
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Originally Posted by fabricalado View Post
Define "register". If I download the APK for an Android program and install it on my smartphone, does that mean it's registered? If so, how is that the same as creating an account?

And you're right that I could use a third-party gift card, my bad.
No, registered is when you put in the Kindle-Amazon account name and password. Without that the Kindle App can't display Kindle ebooks unless you remove the DRM (which needs a registered account). You don't need and shouldn't use the Kindle app except for Kindle ebooks with DRM. Many other apps are better.

The Kindle App on a phone or tablet is WORSE than a physical Kindle as you only need the WiFi or Mobile ONCE to register the eInk Kindle.
The Kindle app connects to Amazon when your phone/tablet data connection is active, it starts at Android boot time and will then connect to Amazon if Data is on. Even if it's not registered (i.e. you didn't log in).
When you login in to the Android app or PC program, that instance is added as a "device" on your Amazon account, as if it was an eink Kindle.

So installing is not registering. Logging in to an Amazon account so as to download from Cloud library or be able to open an Amazon book downloaded to PC and transferred by USB or read on PC is registering.

But the nefarious Amazon software of the App or Program will contact Amazon even if not registered. Also the PC program will auto-update.

Lithium is far better on a phone or tablet than Kindle App. But you need to remove the DRM and convert to epub2. You have to "register" SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE to use Amazon ebooks, even if you read them on a not-Amazon without DRM.

You can't buy Amazon ebooks without at least an email address and a gift card (and only that minimum via an eink Kindle). If you otherwise buy Amazon ebooks you have to create a full account with address, payment method etc, and register whatever displays the books to that account.
You can display an Alias name for reviews and another one generally as well as the real name on the account to match the payment method. You can have multiple aliases for KDP (sending ebooks to Amazon to be sold).
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