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Old 30-05-2012, 18:37
sunnymeg
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My son is a voracious reader and can easily read a book a day. His bookshelf is full and we are seriously thinking about getting him a kindle or a tablet and putting a kindle app on it. I've had a kindle for quite a while now and love it. Question is can we have two kindles with different content on them running off the same email account., I don't want his stuff cluttering up mine and I'm sure he won't want mine on his.

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Old 30-05-2012, 18:41
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Don't think you could have different content as it would synch up with the whole account...if you and your son are having different content then why not have a separate account?
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Old 30-05-2012, 18:52
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You can if when you buy a book you choose which Kindle you want it sending to if buying on a PC. If on the Kindle then it should just download to that Kindle. But then it'd show up on other Kindles under the archived content.
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Old 30-05-2012, 18:55
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When you buy a new book at Amazon website you can choose to which device it will be delivered. And if you buy from the device itself Amazon knows its identity so that should work, too. But you will have access to all books from both readers via archived items. I think, there's no way to hide some book.
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Old 30-05-2012, 19:39
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Thanks, I have no problem with all the books being in the archive. I just don't want it overwriting the book I'm reading so his book rather than my book shows up when I open the kindle ( or whatever the correct term is).
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Old 30-05-2012, 20:54
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Thanks, I have no problem with all the books being in the archive. I just don't want it overwriting the book I'm reading so his book rather than my book shows up when I open the kindle ( or whatever the correct term is).
That won't happen I don't think but if you read the same book and connect to wifi it'll tell you that the book is at another location on another Kindle.
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Old 30-05-2012, 21:07
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That won't happen I don't think but if you read the same book and connect to wifi it'll tell you that the book is at another location on another Kindle.
You can turn this off in the Amazon account and on a device as well, I think. That means all devices and reader apps will be independent and you can have the same book on a different page in each reader. And even if it is on, as you say, the Kindle asks if it should synchronise the location. It does not synchronise the information which is the currently open book across the devices, so no need to worry that it would close one book and open another.
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