As my wife and I were setting up our own Kindles, my wife realized that she couldn’t remember her Amazon account information, much less if she even had an account (I know, shame on her!). I told her to try and use my account information and it worked fine.

Upon signing in to my Amazon account I realized that there were some advantages to having both Kindle units registered under the same account. Not only are your orders and other information kept in one central location, but you can seamlessly share books and other content between each Kindle.

I was reading The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch. I knew that my wife would enjoy the book, so I logged in to my Amazon account, scrolled down to the Orders section, and selected the option to send The Last Lecture to my wife’s Kindle.

The next time she turned her Kindle on, it wirelessly checked for any newly available content and instantly downloaded The Last Lecture to her Home screen.