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Are you in a human relationship with someone who has their own Amazon account? Link your accounts together and share purchased Kindle ebooks, audiobooks, and apps. Yous can add up to four child profiles, too.

Many people have shared their Amazon accounts with their partners and children just to accept the aforementioned ebooks everywhere. Thankfully, this is no longer necessary. This is specially helpful if yous're in a relationship with someone who's bought their own Kindle books — now you really can combine your libraries, but like you could with physical books.

What Y'all Need to Know

This system requires each adult have their own Amazon account. Information technology allows you to join together two different "adult" accounts and four unlike "children" profiles into a single household. You lot can then access each other's purchased Kindle books, audio books, and even Amazon App Store apps on Amazon's Kindle eReaders, Kindle Fires, and a diversity of Kindle apps for other devices. Each adult has their own settings — bookmarks, notes, annotations, furthest folio read, and other data. It's just like if you lot had purchased the volume separately for each account, as long every bit your accounts stay combined in a virtual household.

Note that this doesn't apply to purchased music, videos, magazines, newspapers, games, software downloads, and other types of content from elsewhere on Amazon. It but works with purchased books, audiobooks, and apps from the Amazon App Store.

When yous gear up this up, both adults hold to let the other adult access to each other's payment methods. If y'all're actually in a relationship with someone, this hopefully won't be a big deal. On the other hand, this means you don't want to ready Family Library with someone you don't trust.

Ready Up Family Library

You'll find Family Library setup on the settings screens on modern Kindle eReaders and Kindle Fire devices. However, y'all tin also set this upwards entirely online, even if yous don't have a Kindle eReader or Kindle Fire device.

To go started, head to the Manage Your Content and Devices page on Amazon'southward website. Sign in with your Amazon account and click Settings. Nether "Households and Family Library," click the "Invite an Adult" button.

Amazon will ask the second adult to enter their data on your reckoner. Have your partner sit down at your computer and log into their Amazon account. Sure, it'd be easy for Amazon to transport them a quick e-mail and ask if they want to be invited, only Amazon wants to ensure you're an actual household.

After your partner signs in, you lot'll accept to agree to share your payment methods. This is required to enable the Family Library characteristic — otherwise yous can just manage "child profiles" on Amazon devices together.

After y'all agree, y'all'll be able to share which types of content yous want to share with each other. This also shares future purchased content of that type.

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You lot've at present linked your two adult accounts together. If you similar, y'all tin create up to four kid profiles. These allow you to share content with your children using Amazon's "Kindle FreeTime" characteristic. Your children won't need their own Amazon accounts. You lot can and so share that purchased content with the kid profiles as you see fit, no thing which adult purchased it.

Access Your Shared Books

Now it's time to access that shared content. Amazon has a full list of devices and apps that tin access this shared content. This includes mod Kindle eReaders and Kindle Fire devices, as well every bit Kindle apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows 8, Mac, and the spider web. Even so, this option may non be enabled past default, so you're not done still.

You'll encounter shared content from your partner's library under the same Manage Your Content and Devices folio nosotros looked at earlier. They'll be tagged "Shared With Yous."

To actually see this content on a device, you lot may need to click the Your Devices header here and select each device. Check the "Show [Partner Name]'s content" box nether Family library for each. No, we're not really sure why this isn't enabled by default for each device. Your partner will take to do this for their devices on their own account, besides.

With this option enabled, your purchased books and other content will appear nether the Cloud or Archived department in any of the devices or apps you enabled it on. They'll be mixed in with the other books y'all have available for buy. You can download and read the book only like you would whatsoever other book.

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Apple tree's iCloud Family Sharing and Steam'southward Family Sharing work similarly, allowing yous to share digital content like y'all would physical media.

If you desire to separate your accounts again, either of the adults can leave the household from the Households and Family Library settings. This will prevent either adult'southward business relationship from joining a household with another adult for 180 days — Amazon really doesn't want people abusing this feature!

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