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Originally Posted by Quoth
How does gifting an Amazon Kindle title work? Can the recipient select a target Kindle device, download to PC and transfer via USB like a regular purchase?
Does the purchaser need to know the recipient's Amazon email address, or is it like an Amazon voucher?
Do both need to be on the same Marketplace?
Only answers from people that have gifted and received gifts, please. Actual Amazon FAQs can be misunderstood.
Some ebooks don't work on eInk, is this avoided and how?
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Not sure if you now have all the info you need, and I can only speak of experience with Amazon_com, not Amazon_co_uk. This is my experience both sending and receiving Kindle books as gifts:
You need to enter an email address for the recipient; I don't think it needs to be the same email they use for their Amazon account. They then receive an email saying, "You've received a gift from Oda!" It provides the title and a picture of the cover and a button-link that says, "Get your Kindle book gift now".
When they click on the button-link, it takes them to the book page on Amazon_com. If they're not already signed in to Amazon, they will need to sign in (and when I received a gift book, I'm pretty sure I could sign in with any email, it didn't have to be the same email that the gift email was sent to).
Once you're signed in to your Amazon account, you can accept the book. It then goes into your library as if you had purchased it, and it's treated the same as any book you have purchased yourself. If I'm remembering correctly, if you don't want the title, you have the option to decline the book and get a gift certificate in the amount of the book instead.
Also, you can give yourself a book if you want to test how it works — just fill in your own email address as the gift recipient.