Our online purchases and subscriptions and services are associated with accounts linked to an email address. Be careful when you set up accounts and make purchases! These are turning into long-term relationships that need to be right.
A concrete example: buy Kindle ebooks from Amazon using the email address of the person who will read them.
I didn’t understand the consequences of that when I bought a Kindle for my wife a couple of years ago. Here’s the way the Amazon world works. Follow along and you’ll understand my wife’s Amazing Vanishing Library trick.
- Amazon is setting up an ecosystem built around your purchases of books, ebooks, music, movies, and all the other things it sells. Your Amazon purchases are associated with your email address. Amazon has set up a “Media Library” where you can review all of the purchases you’ve made over the years.
- Each person in your family can have a separate Amazon account. They can be linked together to share an Amazon Prime subscription, but each person can separately keep a shopping cart, a wish list, etc.
- A Kindle is associated with an Amazon account. You can switch the Kindle from one account to another readily, at any time, either from the Kindle or from the Amazon page set up to manage your Kindle. Look for “Register” and “Deregister.”
- The books that you purchase for your Kindle are locked to your Amazon account – your email address. You can transfer a Kindle to someone else any time, but you cannot transfer your books.
I bought a Kindle for my wife – a loving, thoughtful gift that she deeply appreciated, so much that it quickly became her preferred way to read books. In a couple of years, she accumulated a collection of Kindle books that brought her laughter and tears and created memories that came back every time she opened the Kindle and looked down the list of titles – exactly the same feeling that a book lover feels staring at books lined up on a shelf.
This was what my wife saw in her mind when she opened her Kindle every day.
I set up my wife’s Kindle on my account, our only Amazon account at that time, the one linked to my email address. Why not? It was convenient.
Later she set up her own Amazon account so she could shop and see “Recommendations” and books that are “Inspired by your browsing history” without seeing my choices, which tend to involve spaceships shooting a lot of really big guns at each other. But we kept buying Kindle books on my account because, hey, that’s the way the Kindle was registered.
In the last few months I’ve started occasionally buying Kindle books and reading them on my computer and phone. It seems likely that I’ll have my own Kindle eventually.
My books started showing up on my wife’s Kindle like unwanted intruders. Without knowing it, we had set up a single bookshelf when we really needed two.
I did some research and spoke to Amazon representatives to confirm what I suspected.
- The Kindle could be transferred to her account. It took seconds. Everything she buys from this day forward is hers and hers alone, and only her books will show on her Kindle. They’ll be there on her next Kindle and her computer and her phone, too – remember, we’re thinking long-term about what it means to create an entire library over a period of years and decades.
- When we transferred the Kindle to her, it arrived empty. The books that she bought and read and loved until now – they’re mine. They’re still mine. They’ll always be mine. I will always be the owner of The Help. Which is a lovely book, I’m told! It just diverges from my tastes in, roughly, every conceivable way.
We still own the books, she can still read them. Amazon will soon announce a way to loan Kindle books for short periods, so she’ll be able to read them on her Kindle instead of having to borrow mine. This isn’t a crisis.
At the moment, though, when my wife looks at her Kindle, this is how it looks. Over time, it will fill up and be even more personal. Right now it seems sad.
This will assume more significance now that Amazon allows Kindle books to be given as a gift. A Kindle book can be sent to anyone with an email address. If you send a Kindle book as a gift to a Kindle user, they’ll only get it on their Kindle if you send it to the email address associated with their library! Send it to the wrong address and it won’t reach the Kindle.
Think about the accounts that you set up with our online friends! You may be living with them for a long time to come.
My bank disputed a $35 charge from Amazon. Amazon locked my account for non-payment.
I was literally reading one of my older, purchased books on my phone when the Kindle app was also locked.
I no longer have access to any of my Kindle purchases.
I’m switching to Calibre.
It is time for people to know what Amazon are up to.
they control every aspect of your kindle and Amazon account, as do Microsoft and Apple.
There is no such thing as “the cloud” it is only someone computer.
Best thing to do is:
STOP BUYING AND USING AMAZON!!!!!!
I just moved and changed my website from Shaw to Bell. I just purchased two books which shows up on my MasterCard but will not show up in my Kindle book.it states that there is no record of this purchase.
This question is so basic I’m afraid to post it! If I deregister from my friends account (I’m listed as his 2nd kindle) will it effect his kindle and books in any way?
I read this article with great interest as a similar thing happened to me recently. I had approximately 300 books on my old kindle. I bought a new Kindle after damaging my old one and used an alternative email address to avoid the unwelcome garbage which frequently appeared on the old one. My collection of books vanished and after several weeks of effort I have only been able to retrieve 15 books. Very frustrating as I often re-read favourites.
Good luck! Make sure you note that this article is ten years old – Amazon may have changed the rules since I last did any research. Hope you’re able to recover your books.
You can go to your Amazon account and send any book you own to any device.
It is not just frustrating , this is theft by Amazon. Why you buy something you do so with your credit card which account belongs to you as a person. You as a person transfer that money to Amazon . You do not loan the book, you buy it. I am sick of Amazon treating purchases like temporary loans. I spent two hours on the phone to a customer services rep of Amazon and he could not sort the problem of my kindle being registered to an old email address I no longer use. I think the only way to go with Amazon now is just to demand refund for all the books you have bought and can no longer access for any reason. They should be able to sort this problem out, if not they are basically stealing from you.
Yes, 100%. All of the content from your Kindle will be removed, including any dictionaries and other e books that you didn’t even purchase from Amazon… I have this experience with my own Kindle
Yes I’m in the same boat basically. I was sharing my partners kindle account. I ordered the book of choice and he would get the notification on his email and charged to his account. He has recently passed away and I now have no access to his email or his bank account and I definitely don’t want to lose all these lovely books he paid for… so how do I go about getting it transferred into my name on my email and my bank account .. WITHOUT losing my books please… any help greatly appreciated thankyou
It’s possible to get someone from Amazon on the phone – it’s not easy, but it’s possible. On the Amazon home page, look for Customer Service. At the bottom of the next page, look for Need more help / Contact us. If you work through the next few choices, you should get to a button for Telephone support. I think you don’t call them, they call you. Good luck!
I wrote to Jeff Bezos with the subject THOUSANDS OF BOOKS LOST and described my issue. I got a phone call a few days later from a specialist who, over the next month. found all my books and restored them to me. So it CAN happen!!
Just download your wifes books from your Kindle or reading device to your computer. I use Calibre, a free program, to store all my books on my laptop including the ones I’ve bought from Amazon. I just plug my kindle into my laptop, tick what books to load or unload from my device and off I go. No piles of read books cluttering up my Kindle but can be put back on whenever I feel like. I can also convert any files into MOBI, PDF or AZW3.
This is not quite correct. Calibre will not crack the drm protection on kindle books and Amazon have changed their book formats to make such a thing even more difficult. So you can use calibre or other software to read books that are not drm protected, but kindle books bought from Amazon will still need to be read through a registered device.
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Thank you for this information. I wish I knew this sooner, however there is nothing I could do either way now that the damage is done. I had an Amazon account with a my business email address. I at some point opened another amazon account with my personal email and forgot about it. I liquidated the business and switched my business email user name to my personal email account. About a month ago I start getting emails saying thank you for your gift card purchase. I never made any purchases, I checked everything in Amazon, credit card statements, you name it I checked. Got in touch with Amazon, they said we will look into it. Jumping ahead this happened 4 more times. 4 more times I called amazon, they could not figure it out. The fourth time it happened I talked to security. Mind you this is after four attempts to stop this. We came to the conclusion that the hackers found an unregistered amazon account (mine) and used it to purchase gift cards and have it sent to a disposable email so it can not be tracked. That is what I was told by the security officer. By the way side note, if you are using gmail you can open multiple accounts, Amazon, social media using the same email just spelled differently. IE johndoe@gmail.com john.doe@gmail.com john.doe@googlemail.com. Gmail will recognize this as the same email, Amazon does not. I did some research and another person posted someone opened a social media account doing that. The only thing we can not figure out at this point is how Amazon allowed me to use my unregistered account email and transfer it to my new account without it saying this email is already in use. The outcome to all of this is, the 5th time it happened I basically screamed at the rep (telling her my anger was not directed at her) this need to stop. Unfortunately for me they shut down and locked me out of my account to stop the hacker. Which means all of my eBooks, audio books, etc are now lost in cyberspace.
Yes this happened to me also. I am so angry. I lost my books and my prime videos that I purchased on my fire stick. They are not our videos or our library but they are Amazon’s. I’m so angry. I have called amazon 8 times. No help. Just I’m sorry. I understand. Never again. They get hacked and I get robbed by amazon!!!!
It is not just frustrating , this is theft by Amazon. Why you buy something you do so with your credit card which account belongs to you as a person. You as a person transfer that money to Amazon . You do not loan the book, you buy it. I am sick of Amazon treating purchases like temporary loans. I spent two hours on the phone to a customer services rep of Amazon and he could not sort the problem of my kindle being registered to an old email address I no longer use. I think the only way to go with Amazon now is just to demand refund for all the books you have bought and can no longer access for any reason. They should be able to sort this problem out, if not they are basically stealing from you.
I was victim of fraud and identity theft on Amazon & they closed my account. They demanded I pay them $2K+ for purchases I didn’t make (hackers uploaded stolen AMEX cards to my Prime account). Amazon actually doesn’t seem to have a fraud department … just a bunch of people 1/2 way around the world who send robo response emails with no information or help and demanding payment for purchases I didn’t make … anyway, I digress. My account is closed and I cannot manage either my audible or kindle media (move to my new Amazon account) because my email/account used for 18 years is flagged as suspicious and closed. It’s vey frustrating. I must have called & emailed Amazon 100+ times. I also lost any Prime video purchases. So what I’ve learned is if you call Audible support, they may be able to move your titles over to your new email/account. As far as Kindle goes, the best I can determine is that the books still just stay with the registered amazon email. If you use iTunes, you can send the books to iTunes or a computer, but must do it from the Amazon account. Also, register your accounts to MoviesAnywhere…it consolidates your movie libraries & they can be accessed at least in MoviesAnywhere. I’ve mostly stopped using Amazon / Kindle / Prime Video, but still love Audible.
Thank you for this information, it all read like my wife and I and our exploits with Kindle. I purchased one for her first and then she purchased one for me.
However that is not the problem. I am old and have problems switching accounts and getting the right names on the top line of the computer. However i tried to purchase a recommended book from an author on my kindle and could not get it, yet when I went to the computer I was able to purchase it but could not download it to my Kindle. Prior to all this and some years ago I was able to purchase books on the computer and they went to my kindle, but since then I have changed email accounts. My new email account is showing on my amazon account on the computer. I keep seeing this line about I have to purchase a Kindle. I will get there in the end , but would be most grateful if someone could guide me, in detail, about to go about it all.
Thanks
I cancelled my credit card before I’d changed my payment details to my new card. My Kindle is registered to an old email address I no longer use and which is not linked to my current Amazon account. Can I update my details without deregistering and reregistering as it seems if I do this I will lose my books?
No. You will loose your books
Use calibre on a computer to copy the books from kindle
Ya know, I truly love to hold a book in my hand – but traveling with a Kindle makes obvious sense, right? I was excited to see that we could “share” books …. but I have to say it’s a Big problem (for us) to not be able to send/transfer books via Kindle/email. Seriously. One of THE best things about a great book is lending it to another person to see if they dig it as much w/out maybe putting out the $. Sharing is one of the loveliest things about books.
No wonder “print” books et al are increasing in sales again. Bravo REAL printed books!!! Maybe I’ll go back to one less sweater or couple pairs of socks so that I can hold … and then share my books properly again.
I have not faced this problem so far, luckily. If at some point I want a new email address, can I lend Kindle books from the old address to the new one while both are still active?
Good question – and unfortunately I don’t know the answer. I wrote this article many years ago and haven’t kept up with Amazon’s policies since then. Good luck!
You can transfer your wife’s content back to her now, with Amazon household.
Very useful info.
I share an Amazon account with my partner and want to buy a new kindle for him via the account so that it is already set up for him when it arrives. I don’t want him to know that I’ve bought it but this is likely as he too uses the account. Is there any way of hiding the purchase without having to indicate it is a gift and therefore losing the history on his current kindle?
Good question. I’m not sure. Amazon provides surprisingly good support in chat boxes – they might give you the right answer. Look for the little tiny “Help” in the upper right corner.
I sent one PDF via my gmail to my Kindle account …still it’s not reflecting in my Kindle app
My Amazon account was hacked mulitiple times. After this continued to happen, I was advised (by Amazon) to start a new account with a new email address). Bad advice. At the time, I wasn’t told that I have to keep my old account open in order to keep my Kindle books. If I change the account on my Kindle, my books will disappear). So now, if I want a book, I have to go to my old account, enter a credit card, order the book and then remove the card. I have been told there is no way to switch the books to my new account. UGH!
Soon I will not be able to use the email address to which my kindle books are registered. If I change the email address, what will happen to the kindle books? I want to register a new kindle to the new address. From what I have been reading on this site, I may not be able to access the books, Is there a workaround? Seems to be a strange situation given that changing an email address is often a necessity.
Amazon will let you change the email address on your account – look on Amazon under Your Account / Login & Security.
Thanks to their linking the account to an e-mail address I ended up losing all of my books.
Basically I created an Amazon account years ago linked to an e-mail address I no longer have access to.
Via the accound management (in 2012) I was able to change the e-mail address to receive e-mails, but evidently this didn’t change the original e-mail address.
Recently (in January I think) I received a message that I had to reconfirm my account and since they wished me to do this with the e-mail address that I haven’t had access to in over 10 years they said that there was nothing they could do. Keep in mind, I have been receiving e-mails from Amazon to my new address since 2012, but still “there’s nothing we can do”.
As a result I have lost access to all my books and won’t be getting it back. Also as a result Amazon has definately lost a customer. I won’t be buying anything from them ever again.
You can now share Kindle ebooks by creating an Amazon household, but you cannot share Kindle Unlimited with anyone.
Thank you, Bruce, for taking the time to respond to all these questions! I really appreciate it.
Is there a way to have kindle books I purchase download to ONLY one device, instead of the four that we own?
(They do not need to sync across the others as I only use the one.)
You might find that it’s already doing that. You can switch the Kindle between displaying all the books in your Amazon library (“cloud”), or just the ones downloaded to a particular Kindle (“on device”). There’s no harm in showing everything in the cloud library – it doesn’t take any space on the Kindle.
When you buy a book on Amazon, there’s a choice under the “Buy” button that shows which Kindle it will be “delivered to.” That’s the one it will be downloaded to automatically. To the best of my knowledge, it doesn’t automatically download to the others. (Let me know if you find out differently.)
Great Email I have done the exact same with my wife ,bought her a present a few years ago and did not register it in her name now I own hundreds of books and her new account is bare! I wish AMAZON had asked you if they could give out your email to all new buyers and it would stop thousands of people making the same mistake.
Hi there!
what if the owner of the account cancel my kindle? do i lose the downloaded books on my kindle please?
please help
thanks
The owner of an Amazon account can always cancel a Kindle and wipe it when it’s next online. The books will stay as long as it’s never connected to wifi.
I am changing my email account from a local provider to gmail. Since my old email address will soon not work, I went into my Amazon account and changed the email address. NOW I can not access the books on my Kindle. When I try to bring up the books I get the following message: “This item cannot be opened because it is licensed to a different user. Delete the item and download it from your Archived items or purchase a copy from the Kindle Store.”
1) I don’t know how to delete the book. 2) If I am reading your post correctly, it sounds like I will loose access to all the books I have purchased because it became necessary to change my email address!!!
Any advise will be helpful.
Thanks!
Amazon’s support is quite good. There’s a little “Help” button in the upper right of each Amazon page. They’re the ones who can help. Good luck!
My wife was given a kindle, loaded with 600 books, from a friend. Now the Kindle has died. Is there anyway to save the books on it and transfer them to her cloud and new reader?
Kindle books are associated with an Amazon account. If you don’t have control over the account that the Kindle titles are linked to, you probably can’t transfer those books. Only Amazon can tell you for sure. Good luck.
I have a Kindle and so do each of my kids (14 and 10). I want to be able to add books to their Kindles separately and I don’t want my books appearing on their Kindles. I also do not want them to have access to the shopping cart. Last Christmas was disappointing because they knew most of their presents in advance. If I “deregister” them both from my e-mail and sign them up with their own accounts, will I still have access to their Kindles from my Amazon account?
I’ve fallen way behind in understanding Amazon’s family accounts. To the best of my knowledge, if you create new accounts for the kids, they’ll lose access to their existing library. More info about that and other issues here (but that page is three years old): https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/forums/kindleqna/?cdThread=TxAPTUABQ7JYS1 But then you’d be able to buy gifts and have them delivered on a date you choose – Xmas day, say.
Here’s an up to date discussion: http://www.howtogeek.com/248409/how-to-set-up-amazon-household-and-share-prime-benefits-purchased-content-and-more/ If the kids are set up with “child accounts”, it seems that books aren’t shared until you explicitly assign access to each child on Xmas morning. Have you tried that?
Good luck!
I have a Kindle and so do each of my kids (14 and 10). I want to be able to add books to their Kindles separately and I don’t want my books appearing on their Kindles. I also do not want them to have access to the shopping cart. Last Christmas was disappointing because they knew most of their presents in advance. If I “deregister” them both from my e-mail and sign them up with their own accounts, will I still have access to their Kindles from my Amazon account?
I bought a Kindle and link it to the amazon account. Now I can not remember which one was. I know it sounds stupid but for me it is a mystery, as I have 2 accounts. My question: Is there any way to identify from Kindle which is the Amazon Account that is linked to? I have my Kindle address but can not find the Amazon account anywhere.
Hope someone can help me, otherwise I will have to deregister and link the kindle to another account. And I will loose my books! 🙂
My Kindle shows my name but not my email address under Settings / Registration & Household. I think you can deregister and register a Kindle freely to move between two accounts. You won’t lose your books. If you deregister and then register it back to the same account, the library will still be there. You might have to re-download books but nothing should be lost. Good luck!
I deregulated my husband from his kindle he gave to me. I register myself. I recovered my books but not my apps. Is there a way to do this?
I don’t know how Amazon handles that. But it’s probably like iOS/Android – you have to reinstall the apps, but they’ll remember that you purchased them so you don’t have to buy them again, and they MIGHT have your data in them recovered from the cloud. Good luck!
So I have two kindle,a third generation and a fifth generation. Now I have to accounts. My first account is screwed up. When I try to buy a book it says I have to use a credit card, which I have never had and have always used gift cards due to a safety factor. So unregistered my older kindle and registered with a new amazon email. With the family library I was able to share my books but I can’t figure out how to share my music. Any idea’s?
I don’t have any experience but this leads me to think that music can’t be shared with a family member: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201620400 Good luck!
I need to set up my amazon fire………..
Hi Bruce, Great article! I have a question maybe you can help me with. My wife’s friend got my son a kindle fire for his b-day, nice gift right? Well anyway, when we got it it was registered in what I thought was her boyfriends name, she had it loaded up with movies and games and kid shows. Wow! I thought. After a rough guesstamation of the value of the fully loaded kindle gift I had it at $300.00. Now my wife’s friend is the opposite rich so I can’t see her spending all that money on something she will never see, she has children as well and struggles financially. So here’s the problem. All of a sudden one day all the content had vanished and when my mother-in-law tried to register it in her name, it wouldn’t let her. We tried deregistering it even resetting it, no luck. So now the question comes to mind, is it stolen or was it purchased with a stolen credit card? I don’t know my wife’s friend, really only in passing… But it has recently come to my attention that she sells pot. Now I don’t smoke pot but it doesn’t bother me that she does. It just has me thinking that maybe the kindle was given as a trade for weed. So the question I am asking i suppose is, How could i find out if the gifted kindle is stolen or was purchased criminally? Thanks for any help or advice you might be able to offer Bruce
I have no idea about tracing the purchase. But you have nothing to lose by trying to get help from Amazon to find out if you can register it and get it set up. Scroll down to the bottom of Amazon’s website and click on Help. There are a lot of choices for Kindle support. Good luck!
I have the problem that my kindle that i bought is registered to my mothers account as i was under 18 when i bought it. I now wish to transfer the kindle to my own account so that the money comes from my card (to make things a lot easier!) but from above i can see that i will loose the nearly 400 books i have on it. However, the article (although very good – thank you!) doesnt explain that if the book is downloaded to the device, not the cloud, what effect this has? And what about the effects to the books downloaded to my laptop and iphone app?
Thank you in advance for any comments
You might want to check with Amazon (their customer support is actually quite good in my experience). I think when you open the Kindle and change the account that it’s registered with, all those books will disappear. Same thing on the laptop and iPhone. Amazon has become much friendlier about family sharing, so you might be able to link your moms account to yours and still have access to them. Good luck!
I meant to say if Amazon is no longer operating that the book would be on your kindle … I can send PDF files from my computer to my Kindle and that has nothing to do with Amazon in CyberSpace …. no?
You can disconnect your Kindle and the books on it will still be there. But Amazon has the technical ability to do interesting things when the Kindle goes online the next time, including removing the books. Since I wrote this article, Amazon has introduced new features for sharing Kindle books with family members, which removes some of the urgency, but it’s still worth thinking through your Amazon accounts and making purchases with the right account.
Aren’t the book downloaded to your computer so that if Kindle disappears you still have the book on your device???
Well ‘Bob’s’ comment was a little depressing and yes… I am having a heck of a time changing my credit card info (first generation kindle/ compromised card). The electronic revolution may make our lives easier but the pitfalls are many and hidden.
Don’t give them your money. What happens when amazon disappears, now you don’t own anything.
I found the info very interesting as I have a similar problem. My husband set up my email address as he bought the kindle for me a while back. It is a Kindle 3.4. And I have quite a selection on it. I since have bought several other books on my own gmail address with one click that I read on a samsung tablet.
I have given up trying to link the two as I don’t want to lose any of my books.
However I had to change my credit card due to standard problems and now have to set up my way of payment on my old Kindle as I still love using it due to its longer battery life and portability as well as sentiment. I cannot fot the life of me get the new credit card number added.
On the tablet it was easy but the Kindle is still a problem as no- one can help me with an e-mail address for the kindle device to have a reply sent to.
If you have a solution, please help.
Thanks for this information. We have just bought our 7 year old daughter an Amazon kindle fire for a birthday present. I’m in two minds to use my prime account as a parent or just set up an Amazon account for her and register it in her own name. I haven’t sussed a way of sharing prime films with the child account yet, I’m not sure you can?
Thanks again.
Heath
I don’t know the answer, sorry. Seems like you should be able to share films, eh? Amazon is slowly increasing the number of ways to share media – books can now be shared with a family member. But I don’t know if that extends to movies. Good luck!
Thanks for the post. I recently bought a Kindle Fire as a birthday present for my daughter. She loves tablets, is old enough to read in English and Spanish, but I don’t want her buying Apps, and there are some books that I would rather she didn’t have access to. The Kindle has no way as far as I can tell to manage these settings, but there are some Apps that can do this. However, in order to download these Apps I need to transfer my account from amazon.com to amazon.es, something I am very reluctant to do because (as much as I admire Amazon) I simply don’t trust them. I’ve already seen how things I was previously able to purchase became unavailable when the .es store was opened, which sort of defeats the point of global eCommerce from a consumer perspective. The only solution I can see is to have multiple accounts (one for kids, one for parents), but I will lose access to some children’s books in the process….unless someone has a better idea??
By coincidence, Amazon just announced that it will be adding a new family feature for kids 3-8, if that’s where your daughter fits. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/12/amazon-hooks-em-young-with-unlimited-access-to-kids-content-on-kindle-fire/
There might not be any way to avoid losing some content if you open up a separate account for your daughter. I didn’t get anywhere when I tried to move books from my account to my wife’s account. And you’re right about the perils of international services – I write only from a US perspective but I’m aware that many things are not equally available in other countries, or the rules change.
Good luck!
MY partner bought my kindle for me, but he sadly passed away a couple of weeks ago. I need to register the kindle in my name,but I would like to keep the books that I have already read. Is this possible? Maybe I could keep his name but arrange to pay for the books myself.
I don’t know what Amazon would do. To them the account is just an email address and a password, so you don’t have to do anything if you keep using the same email address to buy books from Amazon. If you don’t already have your own Amazon account, you might be able to simply update the name and email address in the Amazon account page, but you might want to check with Amazon to be sure there aren’t any unexpected side effects. Good luck!
This is an absolutely genius post! So helpful and well-written and loved the bookcase images too! Saved us from making the same mistake.
Thanks
Charlotte
We share 6 Kindles on one account (with Prime) and it is great. A true “family plan.”
Same experiences – exactly! I haven’t pulled the trigger yet but man they make this tough!
This was GREAT information and certainly something I didn’t even realize. I recently (2 days ago) purchased my friend’s Kindle. I was getting ready to deregister it from her name into mine. I “assumed” one of the books I read that she already purchased would still be there; there’s a ton of books it references, that I’d like to refer to. Guess I better write those down before I deregister the Kindle to me!!!
Great info! So far I am the only one in the house with a Kindle, but I suspect this info will be useful in the future as my husband and I share an e-mail address.
I wish I had seen this and been able to show this to my sister! I gave her my old kindle because she wanted to read my books and listen to my music. Our “helpful” brother decided she needed her own account, talked her into agreeing, and proceeded to wipe the kindle clean. She asked me about a week later how to get back all the things. Unfortunately, the music was not purchased on Amazon, so I would have to load it all back on. And some were mp3 files that I didn’t have anywhere else. Thank you for explaining all this so clearly. I hope it keeps someone else from regrets!