Kindle Skills - Recycle and Share your first generation Kindle

Go ahead and purchase that new Kindle you have been wanting since it was first available. You don't have to neglect your much loved Kindle 1 or 2. I lent my original Kindle with the original roller menu button to a dear friend of the family, a young lady who is like another daughter to us, and a voracious reader. She loved the hell out of it, and ended up getting a brand new Kindle of her own for Christmas this year. Sonya returned my original Kindle so it could be gracefully retired and on display at my house, until I find someone else who wants to "borrow" it and read books I have accumulated on my Amazon account for a while.

If you have a Kindle 1 you wish to share with someone special, this is how you tell them to access your Archives, so they can browse your already purchased books and read till they need stronger glasses.

• Make sure the Kindle is turned on, and the Internet switch is on also.
• Press the selector wheel (lower right area on the K1) and choose Content Manager by rolling the wheel until the little indicator is to the right of the words, then pressing in on the wheel to select it.
• You will see your Home screen, with a complete list of all the books you already have on that Kindle. You will also see all the books that are not on the Kindle, but have been purchased on Amazon and are being stored in the Archives.  All these books will be labeled. You will see the word Kindle under the books on the device, and the word Amazon under the books that are archived on the Amazon servers.
• Look at the bottom of this screen and you will see page numbers, giving you an idea of how many books you have stored on the Kindle and on the Amazon servers. Use the next page and prev page buttons to navigate and browse the list. 
• If you see a book on the Amazon servers you would like to have on that Kindle, scroll the wheel until the little indicator is to the right of the book in question, then press in to select it. It will be downloaded to your Kindle immediately (be sure to have the Internet button on the back switched to the on position).
• Be sure to include your USB connection cable and the wall charger that came with this older Kindle. They are different and not interchangeable with the later generations of the Kindle. If the person you share it with wants to put other books from other sources than Amazon on it, they will certainly need to be able to hook it to their computer. They will need it to charge the device too.

I will never permanently part with my beloved first Kindle, but I don't mind sharing it with someone very special! It is back home now, but I'm sure eventually I will find someone else who will appreciate the access to my special library.

Happy Sharing!