Material purchased from Amazon is redownloadable. Your purchases are
stored in your "Library" on Amazon's servers, and you can download
them again and again (to a limit of, I think, six devices "linked" to
your Amazon account). I believe they have now made available document
storage for your own items that you send to your device too, but I
have not investigated that option.
Personally, not being one to respect DRM or the reliability of other
people's servers, I'm inclined to remove the DRM from all files I buy
and ensure I have my own local backups. For what it's worth, for my
ebook management I use the Calibre software:
http://calibre-ebook.com/
and, for what it's also worth, you can easily locate plugins which
automatically strip DRM. The software can then send ebooks to your
device while connected, converting them to the appropriate format as
it does (sending them to iTunes, for example, converting them from
Amazon's format to the epub format for use with iBooks). Or you can
email them to your Kindle email address where your 3G Kindle will then
receive them. Or you can set up the calibre server so that you can
retrieve them from your own, local library while on the go.
Also, there is Amazon's Kindle application which runs on your Mac or
PC (which you can download your purchased books into). Thus, being now
local, you have your own backup available, just by knowing where the
Kindle app stores them. Amazon also has a Kindle app for iPad &
iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Windows phone.
The biggest issue for most ebook users concerned about such matters is
DRM. Amazon (and Microsoft, and others) have abandoned DRM setups
before, shutting down their servers that support it. Thus, having
access to de-DRM technology is important to many people (note possible
legal issues with your country's copyright laws).
So, basically, the answer is "Yes", you can download it at no further
cost to another device, even putting aside the deDRMing, and "No" the
failure of your Kindle does not lose you your purchased books. This is
how people have upgraded their Kindles as new models have come out.
And if you store the files locally and deDRM them, you are only
reliant on yourself.
Cheers,
Marc
http://www.parknmeter.com
On 8 October 2011 09:21, John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If the Kindle device blows a fuse or the batteries refuse to charge does
> that means that the reading material will be lost forever or does the
> reading material come with a licence enabling it to be downloaded at no
> further cost to another device?
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