Sharing with large family and many iOS devices

We have a large family -- two adults and four kids -- with multiple iOS devices -- five iMac computers, one airbook, five ipads and three iphones.  What is the ideal set up so that we can share music, apps, books, etc., but also maintain our separate identities, contacts, emails, etc.?  This appears to be a common problem.
Thanks.
David

My sister owned an new Ipad and I owned an Iphone 4s and both of us using different apple id. Recently I found out that purchased apps can be shared between family member and login my iphone apple store using my sister apple id (icloud using my own apple id) , however when i download the apps, it is not the purchased version. Sync using itunes also not working.
Please help !!

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