Setting up a Family Library for a Kindle Fire HD 10
My wife usually reads at night using her Amazon Kindle before going to sleep.
Recently, however, she experienced problems charging the Kindle. We looked
at new Kindles, including the
Kindle Fire HD 10 Tablet
That Kindle is larger
than her prior Kindle, but she was impressed with how light it is and felt that
she could read comfortably at night in bed with it, so we ordered that one
online; it arrived today. When I purchased our first Kindle, the first one
offerred, we shared the Kindle. Eventually I bought her a Kindle of her own and
then later we purchased a new third Kindle for her, but since Amazon didn't
offer a means to transfer books from one family member to another, we didn't
have a mechanism for transferring her books from the first and second Kindles to
her latest Kindle, if we created a second account just for her, so she would
see my books if she looked for books we'd purchased to download to her Kindle
and I'd see recommendations refelecting her reading tastes when I logged into
my account. It was annoying that Amazon didn't previously provide a means for
us to separate our Kindle ebooks, but when the new Kindle arrived today, I
decided I'd check to see if they now did offer an option for family members
to share or transfer books, since it had probably been at least a year since
I'd last checked. Happily, I found that Amazon now offers a "Family Library"
option that allows adult family members to share books with one another,
which would allow me to create a new Amazon account for her and share the
books she'd already purchased under my original account to her new account.
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Kindle Fire Won't Power On
Yesterday, I found my Kindle Fire would not power on. I had used it a few
hours earlier without seeing any message about the battery charge being
low. But repeated attempts to turn it on by hitting the power button did
no good. So I plugged it into a charger. Hours later when I attempted to
power it on, I still was unable to do so. Following advice posted at
My kindle won't turn on, I found that holding in the power button for
30 seconds then releasing the button and then tapping the power button again
resulted in it powering on again. When it powered on, I saw the battery had
a full charge.
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Kindle App Invalid Item
I've been getting an "Invalid Item" message stating "Please remove the item
from your device and go to All Items to download it again", when I try
to read some books I've purchased through Amazon on my Android phone.
I've tried suggestions I've found elsewhere for resolving the problem,
but there are still a few books that I've been unable to download and
read with the Kindle app on my phone.
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Electronic Book Reading with Kindle
There is a May 28, 2008 article with information on Amazon's Kindle electronic
book reader on
engadget titled
Bezos: second Kindle is "not that near," Amazon to launch paid streaming
VoD. I've considered buying one of those. I'm running out of space to
store all of my books and am storing boxes of books in my attic now. I'd like to
be able to have at least a good portion of them available electronically with
the capability to mark passages I find particularly interesting (I never
markup my physical books, though). But the price has kept me from buying
a Kindle.
According to the article, Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, has said that
there are 125,000 books available for the Kindle. I didn't know it also could
allow you to surf the web or listen to music in MP3 form. One of those
posting comments to the article stated the following:
Frank - the Kindle can check e-mail, surf the web, &
play mp3s. The browser still needs some work but it is usable. Internet
service is free and at decent speeds as long as you are in a Sprint
service area. The Kindle is definitely a niche device but could become
more mainstream with some changes, primarily price & a larger screen. IMO
it's not as ugly in real life as the pictures represent on the web but
could use a better design. I have a few other quibbles with it but have
no regrets in buying one.
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That Kindle is larger
than her prior Kindle, but she was impressed with how light it is and felt that
she could read comfortably at night in bed with it, so we ordered that one
online; it arrived today. When I purchased our first Kindle, the first one
offerred, we shared the Kindle. Eventually I bought her a Kindle of her own and
then later we purchased a new third Kindle for her, but since Amazon didn't
offer a means to transfer books from one family member to another, we didn't
have a mechanism for transferring her books from the first and second Kindles to
her latest Kindle, if we created a second account just for her, so she would
see my books if she looked for books we'd purchased to download to her Kindle
and I'd see recommendations refelecting her reading tastes when I logged into
my account. It was annoying that Amazon didn't previously provide a means for
us to separate our Kindle ebooks, but when the new Kindle arrived today, I
decided I'd check to see if they now did offer an option for family members
to share or transfer books, since it had probably been at least a year since
I'd last checked. Happily, I found that Amazon now offers a "Family Library"
option that allows adult family members to share books with one another,
which would allow me to create a new Amazon account for her and share the
books she'd already purchased under my original account to her new account.
