How To Register A Kindle To 2 Amazon Accounts

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Our online purchases and subscriptions and services are associated with accounts linked to an email address. Exist careful when you set up accounts and make purchases! These are turning into long-term relationships that need to be correct.

A concrete example: buy Kindle ebooks from Amazon using the email accost of the person who will read them.

I didn't understand the consequences of that when I bought a Kindle for my wife a couple of years ago. Here's the way the Amazon globe works. Follow along and you'll understand my married woman's Amazing Vanishing Library play tricks.

Amazon is setting up an ecosystem congenital around your purchases of books, ebooks, music, movies, and all the other things it sells. Your Amazon purchases are associated with your email address. Amazon has set upward a "Media Library" where you can review all of the purchases you've made over the years.
Each person in your family unit can have a separate Amazon business relationship. They tin can exist linked together to share an Amazon Prime subscription, just each person can separately keep a shopping cart, a wish list, etc.
A Kindle is associated with an Amazon account. Yous can switch the Kindle from one account to another readily, at any time, either from the Kindle or from the Amazon page set to manage your Kindle. Look for "Register" and "Deregister."
The books that you purchase for your Kindle are locked to your Amazon account – your email accost. You can transfer a Kindle to someone else any time, but you lot cannot transfer your books.

I bought a Kindle for my wife – a loving, thoughtful gift that she deeply appreciated, and so much that it quickly became her preferred way to read books. In a couple of years, she accumulated a collection of Kindle books that brought her laughter and tears and created memories that came back every time she opened the Kindle and looked downward the list of titles – exactly the same feeling that a book lover feels staring at books lined upwardly on a shelf.

This was what my wife saw in her mind when she opened her Kindle every 24-hour interval.

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I set up up my wife's Kindle on my account, our just Amazon account at that time, the one linked to my email address. Why non? It was convenient.

Later she set up her own Amazon account and then she could shop and see "Recommendations" and books that are "Inspired by your browsing history" without seeing my choices, which tend to involve spaceships shooting a lot of really large guns at each other. But nosotros kept buying Kindle books on my account because, hey, that'south the fashion the Kindle was registered.

In the last few months I've started occasionally buying Kindle books and reading them on my computer and phone. It seems likely that I'll have my own Kindle eventually.

My books started showing upward on my wife'due south Kindle like unwanted intruders. Without knowing information technology, we had fix up a unmarried bookshelf when we really needed two.

I did some research and spoke to Amazon representatives to confirm what I suspected.

The Kindle could be transferred to her account. It took seconds. Everything she buys from this day forrard is hers and hers alone, and merely her books will prove on her Kindle. They'll be there on her adjacent Kindle and her estimator and her phone, also – call back, nosotros're thinking long-term about what information technology means to create an entire library over a period of years and decades.
When we transferred the Kindle to her, information technology arrived empty. The books that she bought and read and loved until now – they're mine. They're even so mine. They'll always be mine. I will always be the owner of The Help. Which is a lovely book, I'm told! It just diverges from my tastes in, roughly, every conceivable fashion.

Nosotros still own the books, she tin still read them. Amazon will soon announce a manner to loan Kindle books for short periods, so she'll be able to read them on her Kindle instead of having to infringe mine. This isn't a crisis.

bookshelfempty At the moment, though, when my wife looks at her Kindle, this is how it looks. Over time, it will fill and exist even more than personal. Right at present information technology seems sad.

This volition assume more significance at present that Amazon allows Kindle books to be given equally a gift. A Kindle volume tin be sent to anyone with an email address. If you lot send a Kindle book equally a gift to a Kindle user, they'll simply get information technology on their Kindle if you send it to the e-mail address associated with their library! Send it to the incorrect address and it won't achieve the Kindle.

Think about the accounts that you lot set up with our online friends! You lot may be living with them for a long fourth dimension to come.