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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm afraid I don't quite follow that. If a person has a Kindle that's registered to your account, they have access to your entire Amazon library, do they not? Or is there some way of preventing books being downloaded?
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As another person mentioned, if you wanted to, you could use parental controls to limit access. I don't do that, however. The people who have Kindles on my account have access to all of the books on my account...from their Kindle only. They don't have access to my account. I register the Kindle for them--they never see my password. Yes, they can buy books from the Kindle, but it's only happened rarely, and when it does, it's usually an accident. In those cases, I just return the book, and it gets removed from the Kindle. If they do want to purchase a book, they ask me, and I buy it and send it to their Kindle, and they give me a gift card at some point.
As I said, Amazon explicitly allows this--the people who have Kindles on my account are family members. My sister, husband, daughter, and aunt. I do have a friend that I occasionally loan a Kindle to for a week or so, but that's not a permanent thing. Three of the people don't even own computers, and the other (my daughter) uses her computer for work, and to watch Netflix. They all know that I back up my books, but they all assume it's (in my daughter's words) "some complicated techy thing" and have no interest in learning how to do it.
Implying that I'm somehow pirating books by doing something that is allowed by Amazon, (and by the publishers, via their contract with Amazon) is, frankly, a little bit insulting.
Shari