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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Not really. Because there may be books you want to share with the kids. Then you'd have to buy them twice.
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You don't have to buy any book twice. You can download from either account. You just have to register your device to the account that "owns" the book in order to download it.
My sons & I do this all the time. We each have our own separate accounts with Amazon. But we have shared our account names & passwords, so that any of us can register our devices to each others' accounts to share ebooks.
I don't know if you can register the same Kindle to two different accounts at the same time (I will test it out when I get my K3) but I *do know* that you can register the same Kindle to two different accounts sequentially.
The kids' kindles stay registered to the kids' account, but the adults' kindles can move back & forth between them if they want a book purchased on the kids' account. If by chance there's a book on the adults' account which you want to put on a kid's kindle, you just have the adult link up (i.e., register) the kid's kindle to the adults' account, download the book, then unregister the kid's kindle.
So you can, in effect, segregate the kids' ebook library from the adults' ebook library, but download books from either. It's just that the kid will have to get parental permission to download from the adult library, because the adult has the password.