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BeccaPrice · 10-05-2013, 04:34 PM

My 90 yo mother's K3 was stolen the other day - I had her call Amazon and deregister it. Is there some way that it can be totally bricked so whoever took it can't re-register it?

She asked me to buy her a new kindle, and she'll pay me back. I think she finds the whole bit about buying and registering the device a bit beyond her - my dad used to take care of all the technology in the house, but he died, and even using Calibre seems to be beyond my mom.

The only books Mom ever puts on her kindle are ones I've sent her.

What I think I'm going to do is leave her new Paperwhite registered to my account, and I can just email her books she might want (I tried talking her through white-listing my email on her old account, but it was too confusing for her)(I think she finds the whole idea of working with technology confusing rather than any specific act itself)

Does this make sense, for me to manage her Kindle for her this way? she lives in Arizona and I live in Michigan, so it's not as if I can run out over the weekend and load books for her.

She has an iPad, but one of my dad's old buddies knows about iPads and manages that one for her.

ETA: I've never emailed a document to a kindle before - can someone tell me how to do it? do you just email the document as an attachment to a regular email?

10-05-2013, 04:34 PM	#1
BeccaPrice Wizard Posts: 2,146 Karma: 11174187 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Sony 350, K3-3G, K4SO, KPW	Does this make sense? My 90 yo mother's K3 was stolen the other day - I had her call Amazon and deregister it. Is there some way that it can be totally bricked so whoever took it can't re-register it? She asked me to buy her a new kindle, and she'll pay me back. I think she finds the whole bit about buying and registering the device a bit beyond her - my dad used to take care of all the technology in the house, but he died, and even using Calibre seems to be beyond my mom. The only books Mom ever puts on her kindle are ones I've sent her. What I think I'm going to do is leave her new Paperwhite registered to my account, and I can just email her books she might want (I tried talking her through white-listing my email on her old account, but it was too confusing for her)(I think she finds the whole idea of working with technology confusing rather than any specific act itself) Does this make sense, for me to manage her Kindle for her this way? she lives in Arizona and I live in Michigan, so it's not as if I can run out over the weekend and load books for her. She has an iPad, but one of my dad's old buddies knows about iPads and manages that one for her. ETA: I've never emailed a document to a kindle before - can someone tell me how to do it? do you just email the document as an attachment to a regular email? Last edited by BeccaPrice; 10-05-2013 at 04:36 PM. Reason: oh, yeah...