buying a Kindle for a friend

mandrose

Its a special big birthday for a friend of mine in August and she has asked for a Kindle from myself and another friend.

As a joke, we wanted to download a bit of a raunchy ebook before giving it to her but I'm not sure how this is possible, as I understand you have to register it as the user.

Does anyone know if we can do this, without messing up the registration for her?

Many thanks

redped

Easy enough to do - you can register it as yourself, download the book, and then when she gets it she can re-register with her own Amazon account. My brother bought me one last year, and had registered it as himself when he tried it initially; all I had to do was re-register it with my own account.

mandrose

Thanks redped, thats brilliant! I just have to decide if I'm brave enough to buy a smutty book on my account now, lol!

mttylad

AFAIK you cannot register the Kindle with someone else though.

tanith

My husband bought and registered my kindle and then I registered it to me.. its was fine... take a look at the free books Mandrose!!

redped

mttylad wrote: »

AFAIK you cannot register the Kindle with someone else though.

I disagree - my Kindle was definitely linked to my brother's Amazon account (I assume it asks for an account the first time it's turned on, as I know he checked that it worked before giving it to me as a present). It was a 30 second job for me to go in to the settings and change his Amazon account to mine.

mttylad

Then I rescind my comment, ISTR someone was asking about this somewhere else & got told otherwise.

redped

No problem, it happens to us all.

martinthebandit

Just download Calibre and then use that to put books on the kindle, job done

http://calibre-ebook.com/

Oh and by the way it will convert any ebook format into the right format for your ereader.

I use it with my Kobo and the wife uses it with her Kindle