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Originally Posted by gwynevans
if you logged into your Sony account via the Sony software, you should be able to see & re-download your purchases via your 'Account' pages.
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From all of my testing this is not the case. Well, to be more accurate, it
may be the case - however, in the eBook Library software the list of books in my library was empty.
It was only after I'd imported all of my saved .lrx files that my library information was re-populated. There was no communication between a backend process on the Sony server and the eBook Library software that automatically repopulated this information for me - nor is there any menu item for such a function.
I didn't, out of curiosity, try the test of buying a book that I hadn't re-imported to the software and that I'd already purchased - just to see if Sony would stop me or not. I wasn't curious enough to spend money on buying it a second time if its data wasn't kept at Sony's end, but only kept locally on the client software.
In the end this is a minor point because I always back up everything I purchase to a different location - and re-importing it all was a simple matter.
From everything I can tell, though, it's not like Kindle / Amazon where thing truly are kept at the server side of things. I'd be willing to bet a fair bit of money that if you go to somebody else's computer, load up the eBook Library software from there, and then login with your Sony account - you will still see their collection of books, not yours. Because it's tied to software specific information on the client machine, not to the Sony account being used.