If you’re an Amazon Kindle owner, you know that managing your books and Kindle from the Amazon website is a breeze. Here are four tips to help you get the most out of your Kindle and Amazon account.
- Use the “My Books” tab to see a list of all the books you’ve purchased from Amazon. You can also see details about each book, such as its author, rating, and when it was last updated.
- The “Manage Your Kindle” tab lets you add new books to your Kindle library, delete books from your Kindle, change the order of books in your library, and more. You can also manage your annotations and highlights for individual books.
- The “Settings” tab lets you change your password, choose a language for the Amazon website, and more. You can also turn on or off 3G or Wi-Fi connectivity for your Kindle device.
- The “Help” tab has links to information about using the Amazon website, such as how to shop for items online and how to use features specific to the Kindle device or Amazon account such as Prime Instant Video streaming or free two-day shipping on eligible items sold by Amazon." ..
To manage your Kindles and their content, first click on the dropdown menu next to “Your Account” and then click “Manage Your Content and Devices” from the list.
You may need to log in on the next page.
The “Manage Your Content and Devices” page is divided into three categories: “Your Content”, “Your Devices”, and “Settings”.
Of the three, “Your Content” has the stuff you’re going to most want to use. For example, if you click a title, you can deliver that title to another device or delete it. You can also sort your content by books, music, documents, and more.
Select a title, in this case a book, and then click the “Actions” button and a pop-out menu will display further options beyond the aforementioned deliver and delete.
You can download the title and transfer it via USB, clear the furthest page read, and even add narration.
If you add narration, then you’re essentially buying an audio book. Narration will cost you further beyond the cost of actually owning the book, and is provided by Audible.
One item to note is that you can deregister a device, which is important such as if you donate or regift one of your Kindles to someone else, or it is lost or stolen.
Finally, on the “Settings” page you will find a plethora of various options to sort through. Of these, you can edit your payment method meaning that you can change your default 1-click payment method, as well as your country settings.
If you have any subscriptions, you can manage them from the Settings page, and you can also turn on/off the device synchronization, or Whispersync settings. This last item should be disabled only if you have several Kindles registered on the same account and you and someone else are reading the same book.
The reason for this is simple, each time you access a title, it syncs the device to the furthest page read. If you’re reading the same book as someone else on the same account, then it will sync across all devices, effectively causing you or others to lose their place.
You might have noticed in an earlier screenshot that some books had updates available. If you want to turn on automatic book updates, then any titles you own that receive new versions, will get their updates automatically.
If you want to view your Kindle in your native language, you can change it using the “Language Optimized Storefront” option.
Finally, if you want to send documents to your Kindle email, then you will need to add them to the “Approved Personal Document Email List.” For example, say a colleague wants to mail you a document that you want read on your Kindle. You would first need to add their address to this list in order to receive it on your device.
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