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jhowell · 05-01-2022, 10:13 PM

The files will be different in a few ways.

If you select a very old device that doesn’t support KF8 (azw3) format then you may get the book in the older MOBI (azw) format instead. That doesn’t apply to you since all of your devices are new enough assuming your K3 isn’t running the original firmware it came with.

If the book has DRM, and most do, then it will be targeted to that device and won’t work on any other without removing the DRM first.

There is also watermark metadata included in the book that encodes your account, the target device, etc.

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jhowell Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,087 Karma: 91577715 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Charlottesville, VA Device: Kindles	The files will be different in a few ways. If you select a very old device that doesn’t support KF8 (azw3) format then you may get the book in the older MOBI (azw) format instead. That doesn’t apply to you since all of your devices are new enough assuming your K3 isn’t running the original firmware it came with. If the book has DRM, and most do, then it will be targeted to that device and won’t work on any other without removing the DRM first. There is also watermark metadata included in the book that encodes your account, the target device, etc. Last edited by jhowell; 05-01-2022 at 10:16 PM.