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Originally Posted by nynaevelan
One more thing to keep in mind since you use airplane mode a lot. If/when you turn your wifi back on, it is going to try to update all the collection changes since the last time you had it on. So be prepared for that, unless you turn it on periodically for the updates. Personally, I have one device which I use for my collection updates and try not to make many changes with the others to avoid conflicts. And sadly I think this collections fiasco is going to get worse when the Family Library feature goes live. That will be one more set of collections that show up on all devices. I sure hope they add the feature of whether or not sharing collections will be enabled.
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This is how I think it works based on having just played with it some, so far, by adding a 'child' profile, and reading through the user guide. Some of the details are going to be murky until I can add another adult profile.
The new Fires let you set up an additional 'adult' profile, and up to 4 'child' profiles (without accounts of their own). The two adult profiles comprise a 'Household'. Adult profiles cannot be part of more than one household at a time, and if you remove an adult profile, that account cannot be added to another household for 180 days.
The user guide states that 'Every member of the household gets their own carousel, personal preferences, content, and apps'. I can vouch that is true for the child profiles (strictly speaking it is a subset of the account holders content, not 'their own'), but it is unclear how that works for the two adult profiles.
The two 'adult' profiles need passcodes, that's optional for child profiles.
The 'child' profiles see only what is set up for them to use (I assume either Adult can modify that), no collections, just Books Videos and Apps, a carousel to see everything, or you select one of those categories to just see those items in a grid. I do not see a way to give access to Docs or Audiobooks or Periodicals. So there's no 'immersion' reading. And it is a metaphorical pain to scroll through the entire library to select stuff.
Mostly likely only the account holder can initiate purchases and create and destroy profiles.
I will try to add a second Adult profile this weekend and verify that it works something like the above.
What seems still still missing is the combining of the two separate account libraries into a single virtual one. In the mean time, I'm guessing that the 'additional' Adult would bring along any collections that might be associated with their account. Initially those would be empty unless they happened to have some of the same titles as their partner. They'd be able to organize the content on that device as they like, but on their other devices, they'd only be able to see the stuff purchased via their own account.
After they combine, then it seems each of the two 'household' account holders would be able to see (and organize) anything in the combined library.
And if there is a second Fire tablet, I assume the same 'household' can set up as adults on it (with either as the account holder) and different child profiles can be set up on it. So a large family needs to have at least 1 fire for every 4 children.
Now, the interesting thing is that 'child' account could be anybody that you want to share your Fire and some subset of your library with. The 'guest' tablet as it were. It seems entirely sandboxed, settings are protected with your passcode, and even then you can only access wireless and accessibility settings, and modify the current profile.