Hiding/filtering Amazon kindle purchases

[brainwave89]

Both my ten-year old son and I have iPad's. We both use the same iTunes account and have the Amazon Kindle app on both of them. Is there any way to hide any of the books I purchase in the Amazon Kindle app on his iPad?

This is just in case I purchase a book that would not be suitable for him but suitable for me.

Thank you for looking.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

just make sure you have different Amazon accounts linked to eat iPad and you would be fine. Remember Amazon and Apple are 2 different networks so the kindle App would be linked to your stuff on your account and his stuff on his account on each of your respective iPads.

 

[thesiren]

By "books", are we talking porn? Cuz...really...what else could possibly be so bad that you'd need to hide it? Surely even the most salacious romance novels aren't that harmful. Words are just words. Let the limitations of his own imagination be his censor.

 

[PaulWog]

By "books", are we talking porn? Cuz...really...what else could possibly be so bad that you'd need to hide it? Surely even the most salacious romance novels aren't that harmful. Words are just words. Let the limitations of his own imagination be his censor.

Words can get quite graphic if they are truly geared toward a pornographic style. I'd link you to what I mean, but I don't think that would be appropriate (google is amazing... I don't read that kind of stuff, but I googled an example).

 

[thesiren]

Well yeah, of course words can be graphic. That's what makes Letters to Penthouse so entertaining... but that's a magazine. Dad's worried about "books". Unless Dad is buying porn or pornographic novels, most salacious or violent passages in books will be found buried deep within the chapters, long after a child's attention span has fizzled.

Besides, loads of graphic anything can be found on the internet, and all with just a simple google search, like you said.

So if this boy has an iPad, doesn't that mean he has access to the internet as well? I guess my point is, surely whatever Dad is reading can't be all that "inappropriate" compared to the stuff that's just a google search away.

 

[LanEvo]

I didn't know that Kindle sold Porn mags or any of the sort through this service, do they? I can understand the more sexual/erotic novels and stuff, but graphically... I did not know.

 

[thelookingglass]

Allow me to be the first one to actually answer OP's question. No, you can't hide/filter books as far as I'm aware. I wanted to do this, too, because I also share my Kindle account with other iDevice users in my family. I just decided to live with it.

 

[tmarks11]

I wishthey would allow you to permanently delete/hide stuff in the archived books section.

Not becaue of porn, but there are several "self published" SF novels that I boughtthat are truely horrible... Not worth y $2, that is for sure. I reread old books, and I would rather not waste the time reading two chapters or so before I start to remember why I stopped reading it to begin with.

I also wish netflix would allow you to delete the watch instantly history, but not because of SF novels...

 

[Hammie]

Kindle needs to add collections. Therefore, each family member could have their own set of books. I rarely use Kindle. iBooks has been great for my wife and I if we both want to read the same book, but not share our iPads with each other.