Kids / Multiple Kindle household question

[Sandy321]

Mrs. Pete, make sure your daughter understands that:

Although it is possible to be on your account, download the books she wants onto her Kindle, and then deregister from your account, and reregister to her own new account,
the books won't be accessible to her if she does anything other than read them.

By that I mean if she reads something, decides to delete it from her device or try to send it back to Archives, it won't go to the Archives of her new account - it will be gone for good.

It's dicey as to whether it's "legal" to do this - it's clearly against Amazon's TOS but I also have had it explained and sanctioned by an Amazon employee who walked a friend through it with my Kindle when she first bought her own instead of borrowing one of mine. She probably has at least a hundred books from my account on her Kindle.

and that is why I recommend adding calibre - you then have your books on your computer - and when you take them off your kindle, you'll still have access to them on calibre.

Also on kindleboards.com one of the moderators posted that she or others post about registering, deregistering, and then re-registering... I'm not sure what to put in the search to find how they do this...

 

[LisaNJ25]

I am hey only one who admits to reading smut I have a nook color and I have a password one it.

I am getting my 12yo daughter a kindle for Christmas so this information has come in handy in case I ever get the other kids one also.

 

[liamsaunt]

Old thread but I am bumping as this looks like a place I might be able to get some help. I have three kindles registered to my amazon account. All were gifts I made. Two to children (niece and nephew) and then one that I gave to my Mom. I want to continue to allow all three to download whatever they wish to their devices with me as the purchaser, as that was part of the gift I made.

My question is this: right now all purchases made by everyone appear in all three kindle archives (as well as my archive on my ipad's kindle app). I would like to know if there is a way to delete the "grown up" books from the children's kindles without permanently deleting the books from the master archive that is linked to my amazon account. Basically I would like to be able to purchase things for my Mom and I to read, but not have them appear on the kids' kindle archives as options for them. I tried asking amazon support but got back a gibbery message. I have physical access to all three kindles if that makes a difference.

The kids have had their kindles since last Christmas, but I just recently switched from my ipad's ibooks to the kindle app so that I can share books with my Mom. I am trying to figure out how to make this work before too many grown up books are purchased in case I end up needing to split the adult kindles off to a seperate account somehow.

Thanks for any help!

 

[Nicolepa]

My question is this: right now all purchases made by everyone appear in all three kindle archives (as well as my archive on my ipad's kindle app). I would like to know if there is a way to delete the "grown up" books from the children's kindles without permanently deleting the books from the master archive that is linked to my amazon account. Basically I would like to be able to purchase things for my Mom and I to read, but not have them appear on the kids' kindle archives as options for them. I tried asking amazon support but got back a gibbery message. I have physical access to all three kindles if that makes a difference.

The kids have had their kindles since last Christmas, but I just recently switched from my ipad's ibooks to the kindle app so that I can share books with my Mom. I am trying to figure out how to make this work before too many grown up books are purchased in case I end up needing to split the adult kindles off to a seperate account somehow.

Thanks for any help!

There is no way to do this. You have a couple of options. 1) create a separate account so the kids don't have access. Or 2) create collections. Either a kid collection, or adult ( or both) and tell the kids they can only read the books in the kid collection.

 

[liamsaunt]

There is no way to do this. You have a couple of options. 1) create a separate account so the kids don't have access. Or 2) create collections. Either a kid collection, or adult ( or both) and tell the kids they can only read the books in the kid collection.

Thanks, that is what I was starting to think.