As a happy new iPad owner, I don’t really need my Amazon Kindle device any more, so I plan on selling it on Craigslist for whatever I can get for it. Honestly, I think that the Kindle instantly obsoleted once they released the Kindle app for the iPad, but that’s another story. My question is: how do I reset my Kindle DX so that the new owner can’t buy things against my Amazon account?
I just went through the same process with my Kindle, resetting it and selling it to someone else because I prefer my color iPad with much more capability. Turns out that in the first generation Kindle you need to actually remove the cover, find the little pinhole, and push a paperclip into it so you can hold down the internal button for ten seconds or so.
Doable, but tedious. Fortunately the newer Kindle devices have a software solution that’s built-in to the firmware so there are no battery covers, no paperclips involved.
Start by tapping the “Home” button, then then “Menu” button. You should see this:
Choose “Settings” from that menu and you’ll move to another menu:
If you’re guessing “Reset to Factory Defaults” is the next selection, you’d be exactly correct. Tap on that and you’ll find that it’s ready to reset everything:
Choose that — if you’re 100% sure — and after a minute or two it’ll restart, completely clear as if it was fresh out of the box:
Want to make sure it’s not tied to your Amazon account? No worries, go into Settings again and you should see this:
You can also go to the Amazon.com site and check in the Manage Your Kindle area that there’s nothing tied to the account too. Here’s what I see:
Hope that helps you get your Kindle back to the original factory settings and sold. Good luck!
Oh my goodness, its the simplest thing, my kids do it all the time (and I have to reprogram it grrrr) Put a password lock on the cover and then when going into it there is a button to reset to default if you forgot your password. This deletes everything and starts off new like fresh out of the box.
That sounds a lot less like a feature and a lot more like a major headache, Chris!
Hi I have a basic kindle not touch just wi-fi, I have bought an ipad and want to pass the kindle to my partner but he does not want all my books and I have a lot! and it seems never ending to delete them one by one, so, how do I get rid of them all from the kindle but don’t lose them from my account? And also keep the kindle registered in my name because I will download books for him? Please help me thanks Linda
I am passing my Kindle on to my sister. Thank you for helping reset my Kindle to factory default settings. i did buy a 64GB iPad. I am thrilled with it. I thought of buying a Kindle Fire HD (i think that is right). then i read the reviews of a disgruntled Kindle user, who hated the iPads even more, and even he said the iPads are better. i am a happy Amazon.com user, have been for years. Now I get the same great Kindle books on my choice of readers (and in the case of the iPad, so much more). IMO, you can’t go wrong with either.
This did not work. I have a Kindle DX and the menu with the reset to factory defaults option does not come up. The settings screen has no option for resetting to factory defaults.
Press MENU again under the SETTING screen.
Not everyone wants an IPAD, so Kindle is my thing. IPADs and mini-notebooks/netbooks are too small for the avid user, IMO.
did you read outside (somewhere sunny) with your ipad ?
how long is it comfortable to hold the ipad ?
how long keeps your battery ?
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