What to do When, Despite Your Best Efforts, Your Child Has Bought a Book You Don’t Want on Your Kindle If You Catch it Immediately It also automatically blocks the browser, Goodreads, the Store and Wikipedia, and honestly, when you put it like that, I could probably use a FreeTime account for myself. I’m honestly not ready to share my Kindle with my kiddo.) FreeTime lets you set up a profile for your kid, give them a library of books you’re okay with, and set reading goals for them. This one is for families who share the Kindle with their kids, or for kids with their own Kindles.
You can also use this setting to restrict access to the browser, the cloud and Goodreads.
This is the route I’ll eventually be going…when I dig up my Amazon password. If you enter your Amazon password, you can disable purchases from Amazon through the Kindle. This is the gold standard, designed to stop even older kids-who can both read and know what Airplane Mode is-in their tracks. You just can’t get those books delivered to your Kindle, so you’re sort of letting intruders spend money without getting anything for it. Thanks to the Whispernet, which is what Kindles use to track your progress and share that between devices, you can still place orders without wifi. You can disable wifi from the Settings menu, but it turns out this is completely unhelpful. This doesn’t work, but I’m including it because this was my first thought and it might also be yours. Having an ad-free Kindle is tempting, but I can’t stomach shelling out $20 to make Amazon stop doing something I don’t like, so I will tolerate the ads and move on to another step. Click Edit. This will tell you how much you’ll be charged if you turn off ads. Click on the picture of your Kindle and look for Special Offers/Offers and Ads. If you decide you don’t want them, log in to your Amazon account, go to Manage My Content and Devices, and then to Devices. You might not be aware of this-I wasn’t, but a fellow mom-friend put me wise-but you get a discount on your Kindle if you’re willing to tolerate ads. Can you go back in time to an ad-free Kindle lock screen? Turns out you can, if you’re willing to pay. Oh, how I long for the days when my old Kindle just showed me Barnes & Noble–style author portraits when it was sleeping.
An effective band-aid, but a band-aid nonetheless. But what happens when my kiddo clicks around on Settings and sees an airplane picture he can click on? Then the party’s over.
My amazon kindle account password#
This and a screen lock password are my current child counter measures. With airplane mode, my kid can click Read Now and it will just take him to a neutered summary page of whatever bestseller is trying to be best-sold to me. I like Airplane Mode because my child does not know what it is yet. If you happen to be distracted (because child) and set your device down, anyone can get to a Read Now button for 10–20 minutes, or until whenever the password kicks in again. Also, if you enter your password, that just gets you to the lock screen. I swear, some ads still seem to show a Read Now button on the lock screen. That said, I don’t completely trust the password. It will add a layer of security and block most ads’ Read Now buttons. You can set a numeric password through the Settings screen on your Kindle. This should be your first line of defense. Keeping Kids (and Other Intruders) Out of the Amazon Store Password Protect
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