Amazon DRM limiting number of times you can download a book

[WT Sharpe]

I wasn't aware that there was a limitation on the number of times you could download a particular title or the number of devices you could put it on. I was under the impression that once you had removed an item purchased from Amazon you could retrive it from Amazon via the Archived Items folder as many times as you wished anytime you wished.

Just to be sure I never lose a purchase, however, I always back it up on my computer's hard drive, which I also back up on an external HD.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by sirbruce

But if you don't remove the DRM, the backups are pointless, as you won't be able to move them to another device. If you delete the book from your Kindle, you can re-downlaod it from Amazon. If you have to replace your Kindle, your PC backed up files won't work because the have the wrong PID; you have to redownload them from Amazon.

Well that's the pits. Guess I'll have to learn how to remove the DRM.

[elmoglick]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I wasn't aware that there was a limitation on the number of times you could download a particular title or the number of devices you could put it on. I was under the impression that once you had removed an item purchased from Amazon you could retrive it from Amazon via the Archived Items folder as many times as you wished anytime you wished.

You are absolutely correct. There is no download limitation whatsoever; just a limit on the number of simultaneous devices a book can reside on.

There is a lot of misinformation being promulgated on this subject (eg. Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing posting) which has caused a great deal of confusion.

El