Advice about setting up second kindle account

[Deskisamess]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

The Family Library is much more convenient than messing around with registering/deregistering. You can just choose which of your books get shared with the other(s) in your Family*



*Up to two adults and four children.

I never used the option, my husband and I use the same account for our books. We never kept our paper books on separate bookshelves, so I never saw the need with digital books. Maybe we are old-school, we've never had separate bank accounts either.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Deskisamess

I never used the option, my husband and I use the same account for our books. We never kept our paper books on separate bookshelves, so I never saw the need with digital books. Maybe we are old-school, we've never had separate bank accounts either.

It's more that we have rather different tastes in fiction, with a bit of overlap. So having separate Amazon accounts stops our Kindle libraries getting cluttered with stuff we'd never want to read, but with stuff from the other that we do.

[Deskisamess]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

It's more that we have rather different tastes in fiction, with a bit of overlap. So having separate Amazon accounts stops our Kindle libraries getting cluttered with stuff we'd never want to read, but with stuff from the other that we do.

My husband and I also have very different tastes in our reading, but since he reads slowly, and is still working full time, the majority of books on the account are mine. He reads maybe 1 book a month, I read 3-8.

That said, I just never saw the need to keep them separate. He has his own Amazon account for gift buying, but books are all on "my" account. We borrow a lot of books now as well, from the public library or KU. One account makes it easier.

We each have our own email accounts, and social media accounts, but everything else is joint. And we share passwords, so nothing is hidden. Been married 43 years, and share pretty much everything.

[Victoria]

Thank you everyone for responding to my inquiry. I’m sorry to be late replying; been away a couple of days. I really appreciate all the advice!!

I hadn’t thought about publishing restrictions, including the US vs CA differences. That’s helpful, and makes sense. I have a large kindle library with the US account, and it’s served very me well, so I think I’ll leave well enough alone.

It sounds like I’m able to set up a second kindle and a new account in Canada, if I want to have two libraries, but just can’t merge them. Again, thanks muchly for the replies.