I now have 2 kindles in our family, but my wife and I have titles that we do not want to share with the other kindle as it is our children's kindle. Can we prevent it from sharing "specific" books? From what I understand, customer service has helped people deregister their children's Kindles so that they don't see their parents' books. My boyfriend and I have just started sharing a Kindle account.
I am finding that not only did my own books continue to download anew, after multiple times deleting them, now HIS books are being loaded onto my Kindle without my ever having requested them. I delete them, and the next time I enable Wi-Fi, there they are again. It's only a nuisance at 1 or 2 books, but would be unmanageable once his library becomes very large.
How do I prevent his books from loading onto my Kindle and vice-versa? That means it's deleted from your Kindle but is available as a download from the server if you need it again free download. But your books seem to be somehow landing on the top Home page, which I've not heard of before. When either of you buys a book, you designate the Kindle device that gets it. It shouldn't arrive on the other device unless the title is clicked on in the "Archived Items" folder an action which causes a separate download to your Kindle.
So try that link and turn off Synchronization and let me know if it worked. Good luck on it. I have a Kindle but solely use Kindle for Mac to read and take notes. I suppose I could register another person's Kindle to my Amazon account, though that would only work for a few people.
My motivation for asking this is that I want to share the notes I take on the business books with all my direct reports. Anonymous, The Public Notes help-page will give you more detail on what is possible and what isn't. You have to turn on Public Notes for a book through our website before anyone else can see your highlights and notes in that book.
Only this single highlight or note will be shared with other readers following you. You have to turn on Public Notes for the entire book to make all your notes and highlights from that book public.
So, that's out. As far as sharing an account, the notes taken for a book for each device are in a secondary file on those separate devices. From what I've seen, the individual Annotations webpage is done for the individual's account rather than for the one overall account-owner's since the notes go with the individual device. That's all done at the bottom. So it's good to ask Amazon's Kindle support.
You can go to Kindle Community forums. Sorry I can't give a better answer. I live in Guatemala, and have no wifi for my kindle. I also have Kindle for PC. How can I order a book from Amazon and send to both kindle and pc. I cant seem to find the correct file to copy to the kindle from the PC. Downloads go directly to PC Kindle and I dont know how to move it from there.
Jim, You'd order via the PC with your Internet connection. When you choose where to send it, I think you choose your computer.
Then you select to download the new ebook to your computer FOR a specific Kindle that you are asked to choose when downloading a book. You probably have Kindle for PC or Kindle for Mac -- you would choose to download another copy no added cost to your Kindle for pc or mac app on your compute. But to get BETTER help with the detail you'll need, you should go to the Kindle forums and any question you ask will have several answers within minutes often, night or day.
I am a member of a bookclub and we'd like to share books. We have a combination of iPads, iPods, and Kindles. Is this possible? We don't share the same internet address.
Thank you. Anonymous, If you put all your devices on one account which belongs to a member who will take the responsibility of paying for books ordered by all, and if the number of devices, total, on that account don't exceed what the publisher allows to use a given book at the same time normally up to 6 , then, yes it can be done.
People normally have Kindle for PC or Mac and also their own smart phone devices and other family members' devices on the account already though. Hello, I was wondering if any given Kindle device can be registered to more than one account. For instance, my husband bought a Kindle a year ago and he has his own account. Can he add my kindle device to his and I add his device to my account? We both have already bought books that we don't want to delete, but would like to share books with each other on occasion.
Thank you for your help. Krista, Sorry I missed this when it came in. A Kindle device can be registered to only one Account at a given time. However, if you register your Kindle to your husband's account or vice versa, you can both share ALL of the main Account Holder's Kindle books. And then there is the feature that if a publisher allows one-loan of a book always for only 2 weeks though and then never again , the one whose account is not accessed by the other's Kindle can loan a publisher-permitted Kindle book to the other for two weeks.
Does that help? Let me know if it's not clear. My post was NOT very clear. You both seem to want to have individual accounts. For that reason, neither of you would likely want to have your Kindle ON the other's account rather than on your own although you can both share ALL books if you had only one account, actually. But, with different accounts, you each can loan "loanable" books to the other, with the limitation that if a publisher allows loaning a book to another Kindle too often not the case , it's loanable only for one time to anyone forever and only for 2 weeks.
Hope this is clearer. Hi, very helpful site. I want to buy a kindle for my aunt in another state I have to get her the 3g, she has no wifi. It will be on my account, can i just have the kindle sent to her and have her turn the 3g on and i can then send her all the books in my library or do I need to have it sent to me to download all books from library?
In the future when i get books I will be able to have them sent to both kindles right? Anonymous, have your aunt register it as a Kindle on YOUR account or tell customer service to do this, call them at Then she has access to all your Kindle books. They'll show up in her "Archived Items" folder and she would just click on the ones she wants on the device for the moment or whatever.
Yes, in the future they can be sent to both Kindles. Hey, thanks so much for the tip on "sharing". I've had a kindle for quite a while now and just bought one for my mom with the intention of lending my books to her.
I didn't realize that such a small selection of books were lendable and was thinking about returning the second kindle. This works perfect!!! Anonymous, thanks for the feedback. Yah, it's definitely a good feature! I have books on my kindle that I had from a shared account. Now that I have my own account I want to add these books to my account. Can I transfer them from my kindle TO my Amazon account.
Anonymous, when you were on the other account, you were able to share the books that person purchased. Once you're on your own account, your device isn't connected to the other person's account and library anymore, so you lose access to those books, which were for one account, which could share up to 5 or 6 copies of a book with other account members, depending on publisher stipulations If the books are loanable depends on the publisher and most large ones don't allow loans , then the other account owner can loan you one but for no more than 2 weeks total and then the other account owner isn't allowed to ever loan that book again to anyone.
This is by publisher rules. Sorry for bad news. Hope it works out for you otherwise. Another thought on sharing highlights and notes This is a wonderful feature if you like to post book reviews! From there you could copy and paste them into something like a Dropbox file or a Google Docs shared file. It would not be automatic, but it would be fairly easy to do. How do i get a book from my friend iphone kindle to my samsung kindle.
Anonymoous, there are two ways: 1. A Loan: The owner of the book does the action on it -- in this case, loaning it to you or two weeks max if the publisher allows the Kindle book to be loaned and loaning a Kindle book can be done only once, ever, by the usual publisher rules when loans are allowed.
Your friend would go to Amazon's ManageYourKindle page and go to the Kindle book listing and designate it to be loaned to you. Sharing an account as described in this blog article If your friend owns an account that your device is a part of she or he pays the bills , then you can read the books in your friend's Cloud or Acct.
It's a risk for the account owner Hope that helps My husband just got a Kindle which was purchased from our account. I've had mine a while. When he turned on the Kindle, all of my books, documents, photos, etc. Also, the Imdb on his Kindle is registered to my email account, not his and I do not see a way to log out and log in as his. It seems that the Imdb app is associated with our Amazon account which is in my name.
In addition, my music and photos started downloading onto his smart phone Galaxy S4. He is not happy with that.
We were excited for him to get his own Kindle, but it seems, it is a mirror image of mine and it's like I just handed him my Kindle. So, what is the point of having a second Kindle if it is not unique to him? We have Prime and if he got his own Amazon account, we would have to pay a second Prime fee, which is ridiculous as we live in the same house and already pay for Prime membership.
This means that he would be seeing what your account had bought and had available for him to download to his device from that Cloud area. Is that it? I have several Kindles and they don't download my stuff automatically. On the app, once he downloads it from app to his device, I've not looked at that for separate people.
For complex questions call Kindle Support at for a support rep pickup within a few rings. If you prefer to have them call you almost always within a few seconds you can also use the 'Contact Us' button which takes you to their ContactUs options area If you can, let me know if they solve your dilemma. Andrys, my sister came to visit me for 2 months. She forgot her kindle at home. I have Kindle on my pc, can she access her books on my pc under her account?
Marianne, your Kindle for PC tends to be seen as another "kindle device" on your own account, and the books on your 'device' are on your PC in that case.
What your sister can do, though, is use "Kindle for Web" which allows you to read your Kindle items on any web browser It has somewhat fewer features than the Kindle app, but you can use it on anyone's computer. You can read about that here, in the blog article dated Dec. Amazon described it as: "Your reading library, last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights are always available to you no matter where you bought your Kindle books or how you choose to read them.
Note that it asks you to enable it for "offline" reading but you can just cancel out of that if you'd prefer that she just read while online rather than have the book on your computer. Hope that helps. Hi there - we have 6 kindles and also use kindle apps on ipads, pc, etc. Get free ground shipping on all U. Shop now. You can add multiple Kindles to your account.
Having two or more Kindles registered to the same account is useful if you and other family members have the same tastes in books. If you buy a book on one Kindle, you can read it on another Kindle at the same time without having to buy it again.
The Manage Your Devices page lists all your Kindle devices including any Kindle apps installed on your computer, tablet, or phone. If you decide to give away or sell your Kindle Fire, you should deregister it first.
Click to view larger image. If your computer, tablet, or mobile phone is lost or stolen, or if you sell or give it away, you should deregister the Kindle app for that device. That way, no purchases can be made against your account without your knowledge. You can change the name of your Kindle device to make it unique and distinguish it from your other Kindles. The name of your device appears in the left corner of the status bar. Your Kindle Fire displays special offers and ads that appear on the screensaver and in the Offers heading of the Navigation bar.
You can pay a one-time fee to remove these offers. Click Unsubscribe Now with 1-Click. The cost to unsubscribe other Kindle Devices varies. Amazon charges advertising fees for special offers, which they claim subsidizes the cost of the Kindle Fire. Thus, if you opt out, their rationale is that they expect you to pay the projected difference in cost. Many people are not disturbed by the placement of the offers, so I advise you to use your Kindle Fire for a while to see whether removing them is worth the additional cost.
Whispersync keeps all your devices and Kindle apps synchronized. It synchronizes your reading position, notes, highlights, and more. If you personally use multiple devices or apps when reading a book, keep Whispersync turned on. If multiple people in your home read Kindles registered to the same account, disable Whispersync so that each device can maintain unique page positions, highlights, and notes for a book. I would like to receive exclusive offers and hear about products from InformIT and its family of brands.
I can unsubscribe at any time. Pearson Education, Inc. Then, it could be the family pass-around Kindle, all hooked to your library. I do it all the time with about 5 friends, it is not a PITA at all and you don't have to redownload any books when you register. I have been doing it for years with my friends and I often check on a weekly if not daily basis.
This is how my friends and I do it -- step by step below. We each have our own account where we buy books. But we log on to each other's accounts to share books. Get the sign in and password. Deregister your Kindle from your account from the settings page on your kindle -- or from Manage Your Acount page on Amazon. Register your kindle to friend's accont from the settings page on your kindle. Immediately, all your folders dissapear, but everything 1 not in a folder and 2 hard loaded from your computer not downloaded stays on the kindle.
I prefer browsing online once my kindle is registered to their account. But both options are available. Once you have the books you want, deregister from friend's account same as above. Register back into your account same as above. So basically -- everything is there. Easy peasy, takes literally minutes. To answer your question on limits, it doesn't really matter unless all of your friends are registered at the same moment.
I am guessing what will happen is people will register and derigster once they get the book they want. The only time they would have to stay registered in are if they are reading from an App and not on a kindle.
Once your friend deregisters from your account, the license number for the number of books allowed to be read at the same time on any given device -- returns to the original number. I have called and talked to Amazon about this and they have confirmed all this for me -- years ago before I started doing it.
I hope this helps. It's fascinating that there's no limit, compared to all sorts of things that limit sharing accounts. You'd think if one account has a lot of devices coming and going it'd raise flags. The simplicity of it almost makes me wonder why Amazon won't allow basic lending with more flexibility.
Go to the list of books, and either select all, or select the ones you want on the device, and then send them to the new device. Some books impose limits on the number of devices on which you can have a book at the same time, though this varies from book to book. Kindle devices can be registered to the same Amazon. Attach a Kindle-compatible file to an email and send it to the personal document address shared by both Kindles to wirelessly deliver the document to both devices.
No need to purchase the book or magazine again. You can download it to any computer or mobile device that has the Kindle app installed. Even if you deregister your eInk Kindle from your account, the downloaded content will stay. However, you will be unable to read it on any other device. You can only keep up to 10 books from Kindle Unlimited in your account at a time.
Under the terms of the agreement, Kindle content can not be transferred to another person in any way. As long as you keep the screen safe, Kindles can last for many years. But eventually the battery is going to wear out, and it will get to the point where it no longer holds a charge.
Most people just get rid of their old Kindles when the battery dies. Sometimes a little patience is all that is required; just set the device down and check it again in minutes. Every purchase you make from Amazon goes into a special folder called Your Media Library.
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