A Kindle book can only be loaned one time. Once you lend a title once, there's no sharing it again — it's locked to your library. Not all Kindle books can be loaned. Some publishers impose restrictions on lending; if you don't see an option to loan a Kindle book, it can't be shared.
Receive a Refund for a Kindle Book Order
- Go to and sign in with the same Amazon account information you used to purchase your content.
- From the Digital Orders tab, select the Return for Refund button next to the title you want to return.
- In the pop-up window, choose the reason for return, then select Return for Refund.
Go to Manage Your Content and Devices. Select the Settings tab, and then scroll down to Personal Document Settings.
About Amazon Physical Store Return Policies. You can return most items purchased at Amazon Books, Amazon 4-star, and Amazon Pop Up for a full refund within 30 days of purchase. To determine your return options for Amazon.com purchases, please use our Online Return Center.
Books you purchase from the Kindle Store are eligible for return and refund if we receive your request within seven days of the date of purchase. Once a refund is issued, you'll no longer have access to the book. And then tell Amazon why you're returning the book.
Returning books. Books are automatically returned to the library on their due date. When they're returned, they're also removed from your Loans and deleted from your device (if downloaded). If you've borrowed the book from multiple libraries, select the due date for the copy you'd like to return.
NOTE: All eBooks (and eAudiobooks) expire on their own, so you do not need to return them early. They will disappear from your library account and device once they have expired, and you will NOT accrue fines on them.
On the Kindle Paperwhite, the Home button is now a Home icon (it looks like a house), which appears on a toolbar at the top of the screen. If you're reading a book or other content and don't see the toolbar, simply tap at the top of the screen to make it appear.
To read Prime Reading titles, you don't need an Amazon device – you can use a Kindle app for iOS (iPhone, iPad) or Android. KOLL lets you access a catalog of 1.4 million titles but you can only borrow one book per month. Prime Reading lets you access 1,000 titles, and there is no such limit.
Press and hold the title to remove.
- Select this item from the list by tapping on it. Tapping “Remove from device” will delete the book from your Kindle device.
- Keep in mind that after you remove an item from your Kindle device, the item will still remain in your Cloud.
If you want to remove the book permanently you can do that as well. Sign into the Amazon account you have linked with your Kindle and go to “Manage Your Content and Devices.” You should be looking at a list of your purchases. Find the book you want to delete and click the “…” button on the left side of the title.
Second—and this is the BIG difference between the two—is what titles are available on each service. Prime Reading gives you access to a little over 1,000 titles that rotate in and out periodically. Kindle Unlimited gives you access to over 1,000,000 titles.
Is Kindle Unlimited a free program for Prime members? Kindle Unlimited is a standalone subscription service and must be purchased separately from your Amazon Prime subscription. It has a monthly fee of $9.99 per month.
The premise is simple: Buy a paper book from Amazon, and you can have the Kindle version for $3, $2, $1 or free, depending on the title. This includes books you've purchased from Amazon “all the way back to 1995—when Amazon first opened its online bookstore,” according to the company's press release.
If you're an Amazon Prime member you can get unlimited access to a selection of free audiobooks each month in addition to Prime eligible Kindle ebooks. Again, technically you have to borrow the ebook before you can borrow the audiobook; if you just go to the audiobook page directly you won't see an option to borrow it.
Prime reading is available on the Kindle app for iOS and Android, and on the company's Kindle e-readers and Fire tablets. The new perk comes in addition to the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, which lets Prime members who own Amazon devices borrow one e-book a month from a larger selection of titles.
How to borrow and deliver Kindle Books
- Open your library's digital collection (you can find it using ).
- Find a Kindle Book to borrow.
- Select Borrow.
- Choose a lending period for the title (if available).
- After you borrow the title, select Read now with Kindle.
Amazon Prime members, who pay $99 annually for free two-day shipping, can now access Audible audio service content at no additional cost. You'll be able to stream from a rotating group of more than 50 audiobooks. You can also listen to ad-free content including podcasts on Audible's new on-demand service Channels.
It costs $10/month in the United States; you do not need to have a Prime membership to take advantage. The Unlimited service has more than one million books to choose from, as well as thousands of audiobooks. Unlike Prime Reading, there is no limit on the number of books you can download and read in any given month.
Then go to www.amazon.com/primereading to start browsing the titles currently available in Prime Reading. When you find a book, comic or magazine that looks tempting, simply click "Read for Free," and the item will be available for download.
Lend Kindle Books
- Go to the Kindle Store and locate the title you'd like to loan.
- Select the Actions button then select Loan this title on your eligible title.
- Enter the recipient's personal email address and optional message then select Send.
- Select Send now and a book loan notification is sent to the recipient.
About Amazon Prime. Members receive benefits which include FREE fast shipping for eligible purchases, streaming of movies, TV shows and music, exclusive shopping deals and selection, unlimited reading, and more.
Kindle Unlimited is perfect for avid readers… as in those who enjoy reading at least one new book each week. Reading a minimum of 3-4 books per month is important for it to be worth the monthly fee. Also, if you love independent authors, Kindle Unlimited is perfect for you.
Free eBooks Now Included With Amazon Prime Membership. Beginning on Wednesday, Amazon Prime members will get free eBooks with Prime Reading. The new program gives U.S. users unlimited access to "a rotating library of over a thousand books" and magazines, provided they use a Kindle tablet or smartphone app.
Read While Your Book Ships
- After you purchase a new, physical book from Amazon, select Start Reading on the Thank You page.
- After you select Start Reading, the sample will be available in the Cloud on supported Fire tablets, Kindle e-readers, and Kindle reading apps registered to your account.
Access Your Kindle Library
- From the left panel on the Home screen, tap Books, Newsstand, or Audiobooks, or tap the icon from the app grid or carousel to view specific content in your Kindle Library.
- Tap a title to download it to your phone.
- Access the right panel to view recommendations based on your recently purchased content.
To borrow a book, Open the Amazon Kindle Store on your eReader, Fire tablet or Fire Phone, and from the Settings menu select Lending Library. Two options will appear, the price if you wanted to buy the book and an option that says Borrow for Free. Select this option and the book will begin downloading to your device.
The Kindle Owner's Lending Library started with only around five thousand titles and is currently at over 1,780,000 Kindle ebooks, according to my Kindle's all-categories display for the lending library.
Open the Amazon Kindle Store or your device and from the Settings menu select Lending Library. Select the book you'd like to borrow and tap Press Borrow for Free. Then the book you borrowed will appear in your library. It's returned in the same way as books and magazine borrowed from Prime Reading.
Here are six tips to get your lending library up and running.
- Gather your team.
- Ask for book and resource donations.
- Decide where your collection will be housed and how lending will operate.
- either an online lending library or a centrally-based one.
- Advantages.
- Drawbacks.
- Online.
- Lending/Sharing.
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Use 'Manage Your Contact and Devices' to Loan a Kindle Book
- Visit the Manage Your Content and Devices section of your Amazon account.
- Select the Actions button next to the book you want to loan, and then choose the link called Loan this title.
Search for titles on Amazon
There are two primary ways to find titles you can read through Amazon Prime Reading. First, you can start at or click on the Prime Reading tab at the top of your Amazon screen to explore the catalog. When you find a title you want to read, click or tap on it.
