How Many Times can you read a Kindle Book?
Sunday, March 28th, 2010 at
8:45 pm
I am considering getting a Kindle. I read somewhere that there is a limited # of times an e book can be read on a single device. This is to discourage people from sharing books. Any truth to this? I know they can only be downloaded a certain # of times.
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No, you can read an e-book on a single Kindle device for an unlimited time. Limit is only put on how many Kindle device you can share your Amazon account (which in turn can share the e books bought in the account across multiple Kindles). You can see the answer of "How many Kindles can I use to access titles in my library?" here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fhelp%2Fcustomer%2Fdisplay.html%3Fie%3DUTF8%26nodeId%3D200316870&tag=moreinfo-po-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
I own the Kindle 2, and I’ve given my opinions on whether it is worth buying in a previous answer here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090714124933AAc4RBw
Finally, Amazon just announced a price slash on the Kindle 2 recently, and it is now $60 cheaper than the price I bought my Kindle. So don’t miss the chance.
Hope it helps
Don’t worry. You can read as many times as you want for the Kindle book. On your Kindle you need to login your Amazon account first, then it will show all the books you bought in your account. Amazon discourages people from sharing books only by not allowing you to share books in your Amazon account to another person’s Amazon account.
Since you are buying the Kindle, I’ll recommend you to read this review. It is the best one I’ve ever read:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR3QM7LGL62MZ4X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Frdp%255Fperm&tag=querystr-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
There are very good article here about sharing books on the Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Ftagging%2Ftag%2Fkindle%2Fforum%3Fie%3DUTF8%26cdForum%3DFx1D7SY3BVSESG%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcd%255Fef%255Ftft%255Ftp%26cdThread%3DTx3IXEFHJB585ZL&tag=searchresult-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
After you get the Kindle book in your Kindle, you can open it unlimited number of times. And at the same time, you can register at most 6 Kindle device to your account, so theoretically one Kindle book purchase can be shared in at most 6 devices.