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Originally Posted by nabsltd
But, your quote shows that Adobe does let you download to all the devices on your account...they just limit you to 6 devices on your account at the same time.
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Not quite right. You get 6 activations out of the box but if you contact Adobe to have your activations reset, it does not remove the activations from previously activated devices so you can end up with more than 6 activated devices. You can download a DRMmed ePub to an unactivated device (from ADE to a Kobo ereader for example) but attempting to open the book will result in an error message so while that might qualify as downloading to all devices, it's a rather useless download.
OTOH, I haven't had to contact Adobe in quite a few years since I found that simply backing up the activation.xml file (found in the .adobe-digital-editions directory in the root of the exposed storage on a Kobo ereader) and then copying it back on a factory reset or to a new Kobo activated it without requiring me to use ADE to activate the ereader. The device.xml file found in the same directory gets regenerated during the factory reset so does not need to be saved. This, BTW, is why @davidfor included the .adobe-digital-editions directory in the database backup segment of Kobo Utilities.