kindle for a child

iammumtoone

dangers wrote: »

We have four kindles attached to my Amazon account. If I buy books through my iPad, I just select which kindle I want them sending to. If anyone else then wants to read that book, then they have to go into the archive bit on the kindle and download it that way.

thats what I was worried about, do all the books appear on all the kindles in archive? I don't want my ds being able to go into archive and download any of my books :eek: I could turn off the wi fi as suggested but rather they are just not on there, you know what kids are like if they see something on there they can't have, they want it :rotfl:

iammumtoone

Yolina wrote: »

It's not just for the Fires, but e-ink Kindles too. There are new models of these out regularly too

Very true but I don't want to spend that kind on money if a second hand one will do

elsien

Have pm'd you.

Yolina

iammumtoone wrote: »

Very true but I don't want to spend that kind on money if a second hand one will do

I totally understand :rotfl: the latest basic e-ink Kindle model is I think something like £60 or £70 new now, which isn't so bad if your kid has a birthday coming up and you can get other family members to contribute. Still, you'd have to be sure that he really wants one and he is going to use it if you're going to fork out for a new one.

The other option is buy a cheap old second-hand one, turn the wifi on when you get it to register it, then remove all the wifi info (assuming your kid doesn't know the password!) and load his books via usb after downloading them to your computer. Though he'd still be able to access all your books (and buy some new ones too) if he's able to connect it to wifi somewhere.

MadDogWoman_2

There's this too.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201630380

My dd got her Kindle before they set up the child profile, so has her own account, but purchases are blocked, if she wants to download something I have to enter a password. This enables me to approve what she wants.

She has a Fire HD.

Tiddlywinks

UAmazon sells refurbished kindles - I bought a Fire tablet this way and it came in a sealed box and you couldn't tell by looking at it that it was a refurb.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=3645003031

Also, if you could upgrade to a Paperwhite and then give your son your old one then you'd both get a pressie.

I love the Paperwhite now - it is so much easier to read in bed.,, I'd recommend that above the standard kindle.

ellay864

I have a friend just asked this same question - she wants to have kids stuff on their tablet. Elsien if you have anything that can help her could you pm me too please?

Ames

Sorry to hijack, but would a second hand kindle register to a new user for Prime? I'm a Prime member and I'd like to take advantage of being able to read one book a month free (it would be great for those book club books I just know I'm going to hate!), but it has to be read on a kindle device. I don't want to pay £59 for a new one (I have a kobo which I'd prefer to keep as my main eReader), so a second hand one would be great.

Nicki

I opened a separate Amazon account with a different username and password but my debit card details for my sons kindle when he was 11. I had no idea this was against amazons rules and don't understand why it would be? He and I are different people so why can't we have different accounts? My husband who also lives in the same household also has his own Amazon account. Is that not the most straightforward way of keeping your books completely separate?

Nicki

Have just checked and Amazon definitely don't have a rule saying you can only have one account per person or per family. In fact they themselves recommend that you set up a separate Amazon account for your child if you don't want them to be able to access your kindle books and vice versa. So surely that's the simplest thing to do? All you need is a second email address to set up the new account (can use a free one and divert the emails to your main email address to make life simple) and you are sorted.