While we love books, we have to admit that eBooks have some major advantages over traditional print books. You can pack thousands of eBooks into a single eReader, making eBooks perfect for long vacations, business trips, or just on the go. Doing the same with traditional books would require moving a coffin or an arm bigger than Hercules.
However, physical books are even better in some ways. Do you want to lend someone a great book? It’s much more practical to throw them a paperback than to hand them your Kindle and tell them to return it when they’re done.
However, there are ways to share your Kindle eBooks that don’t rely on device transfer. Amazon Family Library lets you share a lot of content among family members, but many people don’t even know it exists. It is only available in countries where Amazon Household is available, i.e. US and UK, and is limited to one additional adult and four children. But even with those caveats, it’s worth letting your loved ones read a few of your favorite Kindle eBooks.
Once you’re set up, why not go crazy and find some new eBooks to read? We’ve rounded up the best free Kindle books and the best free audiobook download sites so you can get rid of your bookworm.
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How to Share a Kindle Book with Your Family
You can share your Kindle eBooks with one other adult and up to four children through Amazon’s Family Library feature.
Through your Amazon Household account, you can choose which of your purchased Kindle eBooks to share with specific family members. When you share a book with a family library, it also stays in your Kindle library, and multiple family members can read the same book at the same time. Also, there is no time limit on how long they can keep books on their devices.
What’s even better is that unlike sharing a single Amazon account across multiple devices, you don’t have to worry about interrupting another reader’s progress. Everyone in the family can read at their own pace and save their own bookmarks, highlights, and notes, whether they’re using the standard Kindle (2022), Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Oasis, or even the new Kindle Scribe. It also works on any other device that supports the Kindle app, whether it’s an iPhone, iPad, Android smartphone or tablet, or even a PC or Mac with Amazon’s Cloud Reader.
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Granting access to your family collection
Before you can share Kindle eBooks with your family, you’ll first need to set up Amazon Household in your account if you haven’t already.
Amazon Household is used to share other services, such as the benefits of your Prime and Amazon Prime Video membership,
Step 1: Go to the Amazon Home section of your Amazon account.
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Step 2: choose add an adult either add a child to add the appropriate family member. You can add one adult and up to four children.
There’s also Add a teen option here, but you should avoid it for the purposes of this article. For whatever reason, teen accounts cannot be used to sign in to Kindle or Audible; They are used only for Amazon’s main website to allow teens to order products and stream Amazon Prime Video, under parental supervision of course.
Step 3 – If you are adding a child, you just need to enter their name and date of birth, select the appropriate avatar, select Saveand ready
Note that although Amazon asks for the child’s date of birth, it doesn’t seem to care what you enter here, only offering a suggested age of 12 and under. This means that you can use a “Child” account to share eBooks with your teenagers. Kids don’t get their own Amazon username and password, however; instead, you register your Kindle with your own Amazon account and set up a child profile with a parental control password.
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Step 4 – If you are adding an adult, enter their name and email address and select Continue.
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Step 5 – On the next screen, you will need to confirm that you are willing to share your payment information by selecting accept and continue. This is a security feature that ensures that you only share your content with someone who is an immediate family member, as that person will be able to make purchases using the credit and debit cards you have on file.
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Step 6 – On the next screen, select the content you want to share with the new family member and select Continue.
Note that the selection e-books on this screen, you’ll automatically share your entire Kindle library with an adult family member. If you don’t want to do this, make sure this option is unchecked; we’ll show you how to share individual book titles in the next section.
You can also change these sharing options at any time by selecting amazon home from your Amazon account settings and search for Manage your family collection section.
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Step 7: Choose send an invitation confirm. The recipient will receive an email notification with instructions on how to create a new Amazon account, or they can sign in to their existing account to accept the invitation. You will have 14 days for that.
Keep in mind that Amazon Household sharing is a two-way street. The person you invite will also have to share their Amazon wallet with you and will be able to choose which of their content they want to share in your address.
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How to Download a Kindle Book from the Family Library
Now that you’ve added a few people to your family collection, you’re ready to share some Kindle books.
Please note that for an adult family account, these steps are only necessary if you did not check the box to share “eBooks” when you invited the other person to your Amazon home.
Step 1: Go to Manage your content and devices section of your Amazon account.
Step 2: choose books.
Step 3 – Select one or more books to share with a family member, then select add to library from the top button.
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Step 4 – In the pop-up window that appears, select the family member whose library you want to add books to and select Make changes.
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How to download books shared by other family members
You can access and download all the books shared with you through Family Sharing, just like the books you bought directly.
Step 1: Go to Manage your content and devices section of your Amazon account.
Step 2 – Select the books you want to send to your device or app and select delivery to device.
Step 3 – In the pop-up window, select which devices you want to send the books to.
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Step 4: Choose Make changes.
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Can I lend a Kindle eBook to a non-family member?
You may have heard that Amazon once allowed Kindle users to lend eBooks to their friends. Unfortunately, Amazon appears to have quietly discontinued this service as of August 2022.
Amazon’s lending feature allowed you to lend a book to another Kindle user for up to 14 days. Since this was supposed to work like borrowing a physical paper book, you wouldn’t be able to read it while it was checked out, although the recipient could choose to return it to their library before the two-week period ended. It was also a unique feature; once you lent a certain Kindle book to a friend, you could never lend that same book again, even to the same person, without buying another copy.
To make matters even more confusing, it was up to each book publisher to decide whether to allow their books to be borrowed digitally. Publishers had to join the program, and many didn’t, so it wasn’t easy to find books to lend to your friends.
Amazon did not promote the feature either. With all that in mind, it wasn’t surprising to find out that the company pulled the plug last year, and while there’s no word on whether it will return in the future, we wouldn’t bet on it.
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