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Re:Amazon rolls out a social network for Kindle by r4vik on Sunday August 07, 2011 @09:31PM (#2858384)
why don't you just strip the DRM on the books you buy? It won't help with the social network stuff because Kindle doesn't "see" the stripped versions of the book, but it would allow you to have two accounts for the purposes of 'hope to read', 'reading', etc
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Re:Amazon rolls out a social network for Kindle by travisp on Sunday August 07, 2011 @11:40PM (#2858655)
These comments are specifically about the "social network stuff" and my point is that Amazon's "social network" is useless to me because my wife and I are required to share the same Amazon account if we don't want to double purchase Kindle books.

What benefit would stripping the DRM of the books we buy bring us? We can currently read the books on both our Kindles (allows up to 5 devices), we just can't separate our accounts. How would we get our DRM-stripped Kindle books to show up on separate kindle.amazon.com accounts (putting aside the hassle of not being able to just directly download them on our Kindles)?

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Re:Amazon rolls out a social network for Kindle by Groxx on Sunday August 07, 2011 @11:26PM (#2858639)
No doubt many people do this already. But you shouldn't have to. That technique exists only because DRM has utterly failed to deal with reality.
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Re:Amazon rolls out a social network for Kindle by Tichy on Monday August 08, 2011 @05:35AM (#2859387)
How does one do that?
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