Can I share kindle books with friend or family? I have finished some interesting kindle books, but I don't know how to share them with my family.
It is easy to lose your enthusiasm if you have no clue on how to share Kindle books. In this article, you'll find up to 6 methods on sharing Kindle books with friends and family. Just choose the one fit you the best.
Share Kindle Account to Enable Your Friends to Access Your Kindle Library
Amazon enables you to access your Kindle library on up to 6 devices, including Kindle e-ink devices, Kindle desktop, Kindle Tablets, Kindle for Android/iOS. Thanks to this policy, you can share your Kindle account information with your friends or family so that they can register their Kindle devices or reading app with your kindle login credential.
Sharing kindle account is limited by the following two reasons.
1. You may have already registered your Kindle account on up to 6 devices or apps.
2. Amazon account information is personal privacy. Once someone has logged in your Amazon account, he have the full access to all your purchased eBooks, not only the one you want to share. Meanwhile, your Amazon account information will be unveiled to others, including the purchase history and payment information.
3. Even more, if you have set up the 1-click payment. Others have the opportunity to purchase with your Amazon account credentials.
Lend & Borrow Kindle Books(with Steps)
Can I lend my kindle books to another kindle user?Sure, you can lend Kindle books to your friends or family members. But I want to clarify all limitations for lending & borrowing before you make any further action.
Limitations for lending Kindle books.
1. You can lend a Kindle book to another person for up to 14 days.
2. The borrower does not need to own a kindle device to read the Kindle books, but can read the book after downloading a free Kindle reading app.
3. A book can only be loaned once.
4. Magazines and newspapers are currently not available for lending.
5. You are not able to read the book you loaned in the loaning period.
6. Not all Kindle books can be loaned. It depends on the publisher.
7. This "Loan" option is only available in USA currently.
After knowing the limitations of lending kindle books, do you still want to lend out your Kindle books? If yes, the following guide will work you through the whole process.
Steps for lending Kindle books to others
Step 1. To loan a book, visit "Manage your Content and Devices" at Amazon.com.
Step 2. Click action menu before the book title, select “Loan this title”.
Note*: If “ loan this title” is not an option, lending is not available for that title.
Then “Loan this book” page will pop up and enter your friend’s email address to “Recipient E-mail address”. Then click on” Send now” to send out the notification.
Note: The recipient email address should be your friends email address, not their "send to Kindle" email address.
Steps for borrowing Kindle books
If someone has loaned you a Kindle book, you will received a notification via email.
Step 1 Open the email message “A loaned book for you”. Then click on “Get your loaned book now” button, the web browser will launch to Amazon so that you can accept the loan.
Step 2 Sign in Amazon Account and then select which device you want to deliver this loan book to. Then click on “Accept loaned book” button.
It is not necessary to own a kindle to read the kindle books. You can either download kindle app for PC/MAC/Android/iPhone, or even only read them on online with Kindle Cloud Reader.
Step 3 Log in your Kindle apps or Kindle device, you will see the book you borrowed from your friends is in your library now. You can click the book title to download and read it.
Frequently Asked Questions on lending kindle books to othersQ: How can I check whether a book can be loaned before purchasing it?
A: Head to the product details on product page and check the lending option. If the lending option is "Enabled", this book can be loaned.
Q: How to return a loaned book?
A: Go to Manage Your Content and Devices page at Amazon and select Actions next to the book in question. Choose Delete from Library and confirm the deletion, the book will be returned.
Q: Almost all my books are purchased from Amazon, but I didn't see one which has the lend option. I live in UK.
A: This lending option is only available in USA so far. If you are living in UK, please try other method. I recommend you remove Kindle DRM with Epubor Ultimate and share kindle books with your family.
Share Kindle Books with Family with Kindle Family Library
My husband gets a Kindle today and I already have one, is there any way to share kindle books so that if he buys a book on his account I can read it as well?
How to share kindle books with family? Try out Amazon kindle family sharing. Amazon allows you to create a six-person household family library that lets you share your audiobooks, ebooks and apps easily with your family members. You can link your account with another adult and up to four children.
Limitations of sharing Kindle Books via Kindle Family library.
1. The Kindle family library only can contains two adult account and up to 4 children account.
2. You can only share Kindle books to the one who is joined to your Kindle family library.
Tutorial: How to share Kindle books with families via Kindle family library.
Step 1 Log in your Amazon account and then click on "Settings" under "Manage your Content and Devices" tab.
Step 2 Go to "Households and Family library" option and then click on "Invite an Adult" button. A new page will pop up, you can fill in the name and the email address of the one you want to invite. Then click on "Continue" button to go to next step.
Step 3 You will be asked if you agree to share your wallet. Click on "Agree and continue" button.
Step 4 Then choose what you'd like to share with your family or friends, check the option according to your own requirement.
Step 5 A new page will prompt for sending out your invitation.
Step 6 Your family or friend will received the invitation notification as below. Just click on " Get started" button to join in the family library.
Step 7 A new page will prompt up, just click on "Continue" button to go to next step.
Step 8 Your family or friend also have to agree to share the wallet. Click on "Agree and continue".
Step 9 The one you invited also needs to select which item he/she wants to share with you. Then click on "Continue".
Then go back to "Manage Your content and device", you will see all books in your family library as below picture.
As Amazon has a full list of device and apps that can access the shared content, you can easily read and download the shared books.
One thing to be mentioned is that the Family library sharing is off by default for the Kindle reading apps. You need to enable it by going to the "Your device" tab under "Manage your content and devices". Then click action menu ("..." icon) before the reading app, and then check the "Show xx's content".
Restart your Kindle reading apps, and you will see all the books in the Family library.
Frequently Asked Questions on Kindle Family SharingQ: Are purchased kindle books automatically shared between two adult accounts in the family library? For some books, I don't want to share them with my friend or family.
A: If any of you has purchased any book or audiobook, it will be shared automatically. Both of you can read or listen to it. Of course, you can pick up which book you want to share with others or not. Just go to "Manage my Kindle Content and device". Click on three dots before your purchased book, and then click on " Manage Family Library" and then click on "Add to Library". Your picked Kindle books will be shared with your family.
Q: Can both adults sharing the family library have access to the book during the same time period? For example, adult A reads the book from 3 - 4:00 PM, and adult B reads the same book on a different device from 7 - 8:00 PM of the same day?
A: If you are using the same account on Amazon, or otherwise sharing the book electronically, you should be able to read the book on both devices. Unfortunately, if you are on the same account, it may sync your reading progress onto both devices if you are reading at the same time, so you may have to set a bookmark after you read.
But you can stop sharing audiobooks, ebook or apps at a time on Amazon website.
Lend Kindle eReader to Others
You can lend your Kindle eReader to your friends so they can read the book you want to share. But the biggest drawback of this method is that you cannot access any of your Kindle books until your friend return your Kindle device to you. However, you can still read this book on Kindle apps that registered with your Kindle account.
Share Kindle Books via "Buy for Others"
Recently, Amazon has released a new feature--buying Kindle books for others. If you want to share Kindle books with your friend, just purchase a copy for him.
Step 1 Go to Kindle books's product detail page on Amazon as below. You will see "Buy for others" section at the right corner as below picture.
Step 2 Select the quantity you want to buy and provide your order details, then click "place your order" button to finish the order. If you only buy single copy, Amazon will email the book to the recipient on your behalf. If you purchase multiple copies, please send redemption links to your recipients. This is definitely a workaround to share Kindle books with your friends and family, but it costs too much.
It will cost extra money to purchase a new book if you choose to buy for others.
The Easiest Way to Share Kindle Books with Friends or Families
You may have noticed that the above-mentioned methods are limited by different reasons. Is there anyway to share Kindle books without any limitation? The answer is definitely "yes". Here you will learn how to share kindle books without restrictions.
It is universal known that the Kindle books are protected by DRM which restrict kindle books from sharing and copying. If we can break up DRM restriction, sharing Kindle books will be a piece of cake. To remove kindle drm, Epubor Ultimate, the best ebook drm removal and ebook converter, is highly recommended here. With it, you can remove drm from kindle books and convert kindle books to any ebook format.
Step 1 Download and install Epubor Ultimate.
Step 2 Launch Epubor Ultimate, and the Kindle books you downloaded to your computer will be listed at the left column under "Kindle" tab. Just drag it from left to the right, and all DRM will be removed.
Step 3 Click the “Decrypted" at the end of each book, you can open the folder stored the DRM-free Kindle books. Now you get the DRM-free Kindle books and you can share your Kindle books with your friend or family without any limitations.
Frequently Asked Questions about Sharing Kindle Books
Q1: Can my friend read my Kindle books on Kobo?
Answer: Then you need to use Epubor Ultimate to remove kindle drm and then convert Kindle books to Kobo Epub format with Epubor Ultimate.
Q2: Can I share kindle unlimited books with family?
Answer: Although Prime benefits can be shared with a friend or family members(including the access to music and videos), you cannot share your Kindle Unlimited benefits with another account. But, you can read and listen to Kindle Unlimited books/audiobooks from multiple devices.
Q3: Can Link my kindle to Amazon account at the same time?
Answer: Keep in mind that a kindle can only be registered with one account at a time. Therefore, it is impossible to use a single kindle device with multiple Amazon account. To register with a new account, you need to de-register and then register with another account.
Final Words
With the assistance of Epubor Ultimate, sharing your Kindle books can never be so easy. If you have any other good idea on sharing Kindle books, please leave the comments below so that we can update the article to benefit more users.
Iris Yan the passionate member of Epubor since 2017. Her mission is to enhance your ebook reading experience by sharing insightful tips and tricks. Join her on a journey towards reading excellence today!
Method 1: Use the same Kindle account to sync your books and download them.
Method 2: Remove DRM from your Kindle books, and then transfer those drm-free files to your other Kindle. This is also a good method to back up your Kindle contents.
I would like to lend someone my kindle-ebook (not the book, the hardware) and have access to just one or two books out of my complete collection. He should not be able to see all my other books or access to them, just the few selected books. Is that possible?
My idea was to create a family-account and this person should get either the second adult account or a child account. But after that, can I, the from my main adult-account select singular books this person should have access to?
Thanks a lot,
Micha
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