Managing Your Amazon Household - Amazon Kindle User Manual

Managing your Amazon household

You can now set up a household with another adult in your family, enabling both of you to
jointly manage up to four Kindle FreeTime child profiles. Family Library lets you share books
with each other across Amazon devices and Kindle apps. This will not impact your
annotations, most recent page read, and last page read in books. Please read this section prior
to creating a household to familiarize yourself with the process and terms.
To add a second adult to your household:
1. Tap the Menu button and select Settings. On the Settings page, select Registration and
Household, then Household and Family Library.
2. Tap Add a New Person, then Add Adult. You will be prompted to pass your Kindle to the adult
you would like to add to your household.
3. The second adult must enter a unique Amazon account ID and password. If they do not have
one, they can follow the link to create one.
4. The second adult will be given the opportunity to enable sharing. They can choose if they
want to share all of their purchased books or just individual books with you. By choosing to
enable sharing, they are authorizing you to use credit cards associated with their Amazon
account for purchases on Amazon.
5. The second adult will be prompted to pass your Kindle back to you.
6. You will also be given the opportunity to enable sharing. You can choose if you want to share
all of your purchased books or just individual books with the second adult. By choosing to
enable sharing, you are authorizing the second adult to use credit cards associated with your
Amazon account for purchases on Amazon.
To add a child to your household:
1. You will be prompted to set a Parental Controls password if you do not already have one.
2. To create a profile for your child, enter your child's first name, date of birth, and gender. This
will create a Kindle FreeTime profile for your child. For more information on setting up and
managing this profile, see Kindle FreeTime.
To edit attributes associated with people in your household, tap the Menu button and select
Settings. On the Settings page, select Registration and Household, then Household and Family
Library. Tap the name of the individual to:

Manage Family Library

Manage Share All Books

Select devices that show shared content

Manage payment methods

Remove that individual from the household on all devices
Note that leaving a household will result in both adults not being allowed to join or start a
household for 180 days, and the household cannot have another adult added for 180 days.
Your digital content and payment methods will no longer be shared with the other adult in
the household. You will also no longer be able to administer child accounts that are part of the
household. You can manage individual books for sharing on the Manage Your Content and
Devices page, accessible from www.amazon.com/devicesupport.
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