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How to Share Books on Kindle

Method 1 Method 1 of 2: Lending a Book
  1. 1 Log in to Amazon.com. Visit www.amazon.com/mycd to find the “Manage Your Content and Devices” page. Click on the “Content” tab. This should pull up the books you have downloaded on your Kindle.
  2. 2 Select a Book. Click the “Select” box next to the book you want to lend to a friend, then click on the “Actions” box to pull up a small menu of choices. Select “Loan this title”.
    • If “Loan this title” is not an option when you pull up the actions menu, it means this book can’t be loaned.
  3. 3 Enter your friend’s email address. When you click on “Loan this title” it brings up a page where you can enter the information of the friend you want to lend the book to. Enter the email address, the recipient’s name, and an optional message in the spaces provided, and then click the “Send” button.
  4. 4 Tell your friend to look for the email. The recipient will have seven days to accept the loaned book and fourteen days from accepting to keep it. Once the fourteen days are done, the book will be returned to your library.
    • You won’t be able to access the book on any device during the loan period.
Method 2 Method 2 of 2: Setting Up a Family Library
  1. 1 Create an Amazon Household. You must join an Amazon Household to be able to set up a Family Library. An Amazon Household can include up to two adults with their own individual Amazon accounts and up to four children with child profiles created as a part of an adult’s account.
    • Go to “Manage Accounts and Devices” at www.amazon.com/mycd.
    • Click on the “Settings” tab.
    • Select “Invite Adult” under the “Households and Family Library” tab.
    • Have the second adult sign into their amazon account.
    • Once the second adult has signed in, select “Yes” to share payment methods, Amazon content and services, and management of child profiles.
    • Click “Create Household”
    • When prompted to set your content sharing settings through Family Library, click yes.
  2. 2 Visit the “Manage Accounts and Devices” page. Click on the “Your Content” tab.
  3. 3 Select the content you want to share. Click the “Select” box next to the content you want to share. Click on “Add to Library”.
    • If you don’t see “Add to Library” select the “Show Family Library” tab.
  4. 4 Pick the profile to add the content to. Choose the adult profile or a child’s Free Time profile to add the content to, and click “OK”.