I have a question.....my wife has had her Kindle on Ambergris Caye twice this past May & August. She was unable to get a download from Amazon to her Kindle. Any suggestions?

for this, the wireless one works better than the type that try to use their built in phone line. the phone line ones choke on this. at least in my experience. my new one, just wireless, no phone line, had no trouble connecting. with my old one, with the phone line, no go.

As far as sharing, my husband and I have great success sharing kindle books and iPad books. The thing about one account on iPad actually saves money. When he downloads a book into his iPad it goes to my archive automatically. I just have to remember his password.

The Amazon website may recognize that you are in Belize so you may need to first switch your location to US before you can download from the site.

We haven't had any trouble, at all with that. The one tha doesn't seem to work here is Barnes and Noble. We download those from the States. But we hardly need to. IBooks and Amazon seem to have everything we want.

that is what I wondered--having to use a US proxy or VPN to connect to Amazon

It does not matter where you and your kindle are physically located. what matters is whether you have a financial identity (credit card and billing address that goes with it) in the USA. If you do, you can have a "USA" kindle, you can buy books at the "USA rate" and can download your books into your wireless kindle anywhere. Have your kindle shipped to a USA address and then bring with/send with someone. But in order to set up a USA amazon account you must have the USA financial identity. I live in Panama and I do all those things because I still have a financial identity in the USA and I use that identity for my amazon account.

Not so. No IP checking is done and you can use the wireless from anywhere or alternatively (if you don't have access to wireless internet) go to an internet cafe with your laptop, plug your kindle into your laptop and choose "download to computer" with your kindle being your auxiliary "hard drive" by virtue of the USB connection.