Cinnamon Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I have hundreds of books on my Kindle now & my daughter has said she would like a Kindle for her birthday too As she is an English uni student,this seems like a great idea to me But,I want to put some of my books onto her machine for her,which I know I can do if I register it to me,but if I then deactivate it & she registers it to her,will it delete the books I have sent her from my account? Obviously I need it activate/registered to her long term,or I will end up paying for her books & also getting them sent to my Kindle too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janepie33 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I THINK they should still be there if you create a Kindle account for her via Amazon. I had to deactivate my old Kindle as it had a crack in it and was replaced under guarantee. I renamed my new Kindle and just transferred all the books over via the Amazon account. If in doubt give them a ring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 Thing is,they may not be entirely happy about it,as I bought them for my Kindle,but want to put them onto another Kindle,then change the owner of that Kindle. I suspect they may want them to be purchased again,as it is for another persons machine,& I am looking for a way around that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janepie33 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I think I read somewhere that you are allowed to share your purchased books with up to 6 devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 Yeah,that rings a bell with me too. Will go & have a good trawl in the site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I had an idea that 'sharing' wasn't yet an option in the UK, unless all kindles were attached to the same account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 Yeah,looking into it you can't share,but you can download to an app. I think I may give it a go via Calibre anyhow - see if I can get these books on there that way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmommasally Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 My daughter has an Ipad and has linked it to my Amazon account so can read all my books without problem. The only thing is if she wants to buy a book for herself she has to do it through my Amazon account and I end up paying for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorbloodnock Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Well I've had a quick read and it seems the situation is as follows: When you purchase your ebook, it becomes associated with your account. When you purchase a Kindle, it also becomes associated with your account, and each has its own unique identifier. When you wish to download the ebook, one of the steps is to specify which reader you want to download to. Amazon then takes the ebook file on their server and adds digital rights management restricting it to just that ereader. If you want to download to a second ereader, Amazon goes through the same process again, and they allow you to have copies on six Kindles simultaneously. If you remove the ebook from one of the Kindles, when it synchronises with your account Amazon knows about it, and so you could, if you wished, then download it to a seventh device. You certainly cannot share an ebook with someone else's account, and there does not appear to be any way to transfer ownership of a purchased ebook from one account to another either. Any ebook file that is free of DRM can be transferred or copied from one Kindle or computer to any number of others and read successfully. It would be ridiculous to deny there are ways of stripping a file of its DRM. However, that would be against Amazon's terms and conditions, and I have no doubt (though I haven't looked into it) would most likely be very costly if discovered. The net result, therefore, is that if your daughter wants some ebooks you've already bought then either she'll have to read them on something associated with your account or she'll have to buy another copy herself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 Thanks - I cam to the same conclusion myself yesterday. Its a bit bad really....you can share paperbacks,so why not ebooks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
