[rcentros]

Not sure when this happened -- I haven't changed my Kindle Account Settings for a while and just went there to turn off Automatic Book Update -- but now I see that I can set up a Households and Family Library. It wasn't there the last time I checked, so I assumed it would only be available for those buying the newer Kindles.

This was the most exciting feature (in my opinion) when the Voyage and new Kindle Basic were announced. Happy to see that it is available for everyone now. I'll definitely be setting up a couple Child accounts. I'll probably also invite my wife to join -- though most of her books are technical, relating to her work and my library may not be that attractive to her either.

EDIT: Turned out that, though my wife and I could combine accounts -- which really doesn't mean much to us since our reading rarely overlaps -- the child accounts only work on the newer Kindles and Fires. I thought the kids could use their own devices, but this is for sharing time on our own devices (provided they were new enough to have the feature). So, not much use to us, after all.