Off-Topic: Sharing Books Between Kindle & Kindle Fire

[babywings76]

Does anyone know if it's possible for my husband who has a Kindle Fire to share a book from my sister who has a regular Kindle?

 

[PampChefJoy]

has the author made the book share-able? If so, she should be able to lend it to whoever she wants... (I think she needs his email address).

If not, you can export the file as a mobi file and then email it to someone else's kindle account to have it converted or email it to their email and they can hook up the kindle via usb and drop it into their kindle.

 

[maldvs]

has the author made the book share-able? If so, she should be able to lend it to whoever she wants... (I think she needs his email address).

If not, you can export the file as a mobi file and then email it to someone else's kindle account to have it converted or email it to their email and they can hook up the kindle via usb and drop it into their kindle.

Is this only Kindle to Kindle Fire? I've tried transferring books between my Kindle and my SIL's Kindle and haven't been successful because the book purchases were "registered" to our own Kindles.

 

[Becca_in_MD]

He can look on Amazon under his account > manage my kindle to see if that's how you lend to someone you know. Booklending.com will let you know if a book is lendable. I've been getting a ton of e-books from my public library.

 

[babywings76]

Thanks everyone, I'll let him know and have him check it out. I got him to read the Hunger Games, and he liked it and wants to read the next one. My sister bought the 3 books of that series for her Kindle, so if he could borrow them, it would be nice. I'll have to see if they are "lendable". Thanks!

 

[gailz2]

My friend "unregistered" my kindle from me, and registered it under her name, then downloaded her books, then reregistered under me. It worked.

 

[pchefjaneen]

you can share books with anyone for 2 weeks from your kindle account regardless of what type of reader they have. I send books to a friend who just downloaded one of the free kindle reading apps to a pc and it works just fine. They have 7 days to accept the loaned book and once it's accepted, they have it for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks, it automatically returns itself to my account. You can only do it once for each book though.

 

[esavvymom]

This is why I am not a fan of e-books. Atleast with print, you can lend them, donate them, etc. sorry, I know.....no help to thebquestion. but I have been reading hoping to find a solution also. But I have an iPad, but I usually use the Kindle App., when I use it.

 

[PampChefJoy]

Not all authors allow "lending" for the 2 week thing. I believe it says on the book description on Amazon.com if it's enabled.

That aside, if you can hook up your kindle to the PC via data cable, you can drag and drop the book just like any other file (move the file from 1st kindle to your hard drive, then copy from your hard drive to the 2nd kindle). I do this with my Kindle 2nd gen, but haven't tried yet with the Fire, so I don't know if it works exactly the same way.