How To Register A Child's Kindle Fire

How to Souvenir the Kindle Fire Without Getting Burned

Gift givers beware! The Kindle Burn y'all buy for a friend may end up giving her admission to your personal Amazon media and the ability to buy new books, movies, music, and apps using your credit card.

To help new owners get up and running quickly, by default Amazon ships the Kindle Fire already registered and logged into the Amazon account of the person who buys it. So if you've previously purchased books for an older Kindle, y'all tin can instantly download them to your Fire. Likewise, if you desire to purchase a new app, book, vocal, and blazon of media that tin be directly downloaded to the Burn down, y'all simply have to open up the appropriate tab at the top of the home screen, tap Store, and shop to your heart's content without having to go through the irksome procedure of entering your user name and password or credit card data for each purchase.

But what if you lot buy the Kindle Fire for a friend? Out of the box, he or she will have the aforementioned open up access to your Amazon App Shop, Kindle Volume Store, Music Store, and Video Store that you would.

In its defense, Amazon gives yous ample opportunity to unregister the Burn, or have it shipped to the person you bought it for without whatever account information included. Yet, in that location are no real warnings on the site explaining why you would want to practise that.

The but such warning nosotros could find was a block of text located at the bottom of the club confirmation electronic mail that states, "Your Kindle Burn was automatically registered to the same Amazon.com account you used to make your purchase. If y'all bought Kindle Fire as a gift, yous can deregister information technology from your account. Your gift recipient tin then annals it to their own Amazon.com business relationship right from Kindle Burn to buy content."

So how do you go on the Kindle Fire your purchased for someone else from siphoning money out of your Amazon account? Merely follow any of these methods.

Designate every bit Gift During Checkout

one. Designate as souvenir when adding to cart. When you begin your initial purchase, you'll be greeted with the ubiquitous Amazon order course where you put the Fire in your order cart. Before clicking the Add to Cart button, click the box next to "This will be a gift."

Normally, this box is used to make certain your package doesn't get sent to the souvenir recipients address with a receipt detailing how much you lot spent on their gift. In this awarding, even so, it likewise ensures that your Fire doesn't go registered to your Amazon business relationship, although it doesn't say every bit much. Then check the box, even if the Kindle is being shipped to y'all.

2. Designate as gift later on adding to cart. If you click through your shopping cart without designating the Fire every bit a gift, Amazon will again give you the opportunity to exercise so. Located directly under the Fire is the aforementioned "This will be a souvenir" button. Click that and y'all'll deregister the Fire. Just as before, there is no indication that clicking "This will be a gift" too deregisters the Fire.

3. Edit your cart before checkout. You can also deregister the Fire by entering the "Edit your Cart" section and clicking the box next to "This will be a gift." Amazon also offers a handy "Acquire More" link that opens a guide to what designating your buy as a gift will do, which reads: "If you buy a Kindle, it volition not be registered to your Amazon account. The recipient can annals the Kindle to their own Amazon account when information technology arrives."

Deregister the Kindle Burn down Online After Ordering

But what if you already social club a Fire and didn't unregister it? Merely head on over to amazon.com/myk (opens in new tab) and click Manage Your Devices. You'll then see a listing of Kindles fastened to your account and you lot can deregister the gift Burn without even taking information technology out of its packaging. This is also a good way to deregister a Kindle that you may have already given to someone.

Deregister on the Kindle Burn Itself

If you accept the souvenir Kindle Fire in your easily, you lot can just go to Settings > My Account and click on the Deregister push.

These steps may all seem easy and rather intuitive, but the lack of an outright explanation by Amazon regarding the fact that your purchase will be immediately linked to your Amazon account unless you lot designate it as a souvenir is bothersome. Nosotros appreciate the multitude of opportunities Amazon gives you to marker the Burn down every bit a gift. We just wish the retailer explained why that'south important.

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A newspaper man at heart, Dan Howley wrote for Greater Media Newspapers earlier joining Laptopmag.com. He also served as a news editor with ALM Media's Law Technology News, and he holds a B.A. in English from The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.