kindle for a child

Violetta_2

Ames wrote: »

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.

I'm not amazingly techy but I'm sure you can convert kindle books to epub files which is what most ereaders use hopefully someone more technical can advise might be worth asking on techy section of forum.

david39

You can do it easily on any kindle.

Just create a separate folder for your child and when you download a book for him/her move it into that folder.

Yours will still show up wherever they normally do. The child's will appear in his own folder. That is how my wife and I keep our books separately

iammumtoone

david39 wrote: »

You can do it easily on any kindle.

Just create a separate folder for your child and when you download a book for him/her move it into that folder.

Yours will still show up wherever they normally do. The child's will appear in his own folder. That is how my wife and I keep our books separately

that works for you and your wife, as you are both adults. The issue is with that method a child can see what books the adult has :eek:

iammumtoone

Nicki wrote: »

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?

at 11 you are probably ok my son is only 7, but i get what you are saying how are they going to check the childs age. I think setting him up an account with a different email might be the way to go.

iammumtoone

Ames wrote: »

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.

that will work fine. when you buy a second hand one the seller should have re-set it to delete their details, they would be silly not to as otherwise you may ne able to buy books on their account :eek:

If they haven't just re-set the kindle to factory settings then when you turn it on it will be like new and you set up your account from there

DigForVictory

We were a pure kindle family & managed not to cross-contaminate each other largely by copying books to memory sticks.
Of 4, 2 screens failed, both out of warranty, & to just keep folk reading, we got a nook.
It's working as all I want to read I haul onto the nook, whereas anything son wants we sort onto MyKindle....
Rousing cheers for calibre software!

iammumtoone

If I set up kindle for PC on my laptop and plug in the kindle via USB can I just drag and drop the books i want from PC to kindle or is it not that easy?

DigForVictory

It works that way for me. Title on PC, copied to kindle documents & it's there to read.

No subdirectories dragged, lest things get muddled.

The only hitch is amazon titles are usually a string of numbers - I rename files so I know what I'm moving!

I do love e-readers - all my sons read happily & so even waiting rooms have lost the Boring place status. (I'm a firm believe in boredom as a useful spur, but if we have to sit & wait & can plan a little? Ereaders every time!)

Yolina

Violetta wrote: »

I'm not amazingly techy but I'm sure you can convert kindle books to epub files which is what most ereaders use hopefully someone more technical can advise might be worth asking on techy section of forum.

You can't with most ebooks because of DRM which the publishers insist on. Some are sold DRM-free but it's fairly rare. (Removing DRM is actually trivial but not a discussion for here)

iammumtoone wrote: »

If I set up kindle for PC on my laptop and plug in the kindle via USB can I just drag and drop the books i want from PC to kindle or is it not that easy?

Nope, again because of DRM. You need to go to the "manage my content" page on Amazon and either select to send whatever book to your Kindle via wifi or select to download and transfer by USB and select the Kindle you want to transfer the book to (so that the DRM is coded for that device). A book you've downloaded to "Kindle for PC" can only be opened by that specific "Kindle for PC"; a book downloaded to "Kindle A" can only be opened by that Kindle.

[rant mode on] DRM is a disgrace - it doesn't prevent piracy in the slightest, and it just annoys legitimate users who do pay for their books [/rant mode off]

iammumtoone

Yolina wrote: »

Nope, again because of DRM. You need to go to the "manage my content" page on Amazon and either select to send whatever book to your Kindle via wifi or select to download and transfer by USB and select the Kindle you want to transfer the book to (so that the DRM is coded for that device). A book you've downloaded to "Kindle for PC" can only be opened by that specific "Kindle for PC"; a book downloaded to "Kindle A" can only be opened by that Kindle.
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Thanks I have looked at amazon and see how to do that.

I don't get how that will help as it means I still have to register sons kindle against my account and as soon as I do that all my books that are already on my account will get sent to it. I know that any future books I can stop appearing but not the ones I already have

I think the only answer is to set him up his own account.