Gifting books on a kindle?

Polarpenguin

pmduk wrote: »

UK kindle accounts have problems with US kindle books I've found, the website has always warned me off before I've finalised purchasing. Buying an e-gift token for the relevant amount is the closest you can get at this point.

A less than honest method would be to buy the book and strip the book of its DRM but neither I nor anyone on MSE would condone or recommend this.

This. Suggest looking at xxx.mobileread.com (Can't post link yet, replace xxx with www)

Other possibility if Mum doesn't have her on Kindle can you link your Kindle to her Amazon account?
This might work xxx.amazon.co.uk/myh/households

Voyager2002

Colin_Maybe wrote: »

Way more problems than it's worth I suspect.

Your only option is the link I supplied earlier, Amazon gift cards are available from just £1 and I tried the process up until a certain point and can't see why it wouldn't work. It is simple to do as well.

I can confirm both points from my own experience. The gift card route is painless and effective. I have bought eBooks from the USA before and faced a host of technical problems: while there are work-arounds the whole process is far more trouble than it is worth.

Voyager2002

pmduk wrote: »

A less than honest method would be to buy the book and strip the book of its DRM but neither I nor anyone on MSE would condone or recommend this.

I am not sure why you see that as dishonest, since you are after all paying for the book. I can confirm that this is possible, but far more trouble than it is worth.

pmduk

I suspect that altering DRM protection falls foul of one of the many provisions of the CMA (or DMCA in the US). I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not going to test it or recommend it to anyone else to test.

JustAnotherSaver

I think i'll agree with the above - starting to mess around on that level is too much hassle.


Something i thought about was simply giving my mother access to my Amazon account for example. Make sure her card is on file & just go through it with her what she'd have to do if she chose to pick a book. Just an idea in addition to the one in post #3.

Paul_DNAP

Just thinking out loud here: Could you do something though an "Amazon wish list" on her account, make it public and then buy stuff off her list with your amazon account?

roytom

Why not borrow ebooks from your local library to use on the new Kindle. I!!!8217;ve only ever done this on Kobo or Nook devices but I was told that!!!8217;s its now possible on the kindle too. It wasn!!!8217;t possible at one stage because of the file format used on kindles

welshbabe88

Same sort of problem with audible books - you 'buy' the recording - but its on your Kindle and you cannot share it with a friend - whereas if you buy the physical book (which is usually cheaper\0 then you can pass it on to as many people as you like!

Car2oon

Just thinking out loud here: Could you do something though an "Amazon wish list" on her account, make it public and then buy stuff off her list with your amazon account?

Tried that last year, sent my Kindle Wish List to the family and discovered the whole it only works in the US thing. REALLY ANNOYING AMAZON!!!

alexrdavies

FYI - it's now possible to gift books in the UK as well. Go to the page of a Kindle book, and on the right you'll see "Buy for others: give this ebook as a gift". Click through and you'll see an order page. You can *either* enter someone's email for a link to the book to be sent straight away, *or* leave it blank, in which case the link will be sent to you and you can share it on Christmas Day / write it in a card.