On the left side, click “More Actions.” When this box pops open, scroll down to the bottom and click “Manage family library.” In that thank you notice, choose “Manage Your Content and Devices.”Ī full list of all your digital books will pop up and it’s usually sorted by what you’ve most recently checked out, so your new library book should be first. Once you’ve completed the checkout on Amazon’s side, you’ll get a thank you notice. It’ll connect you to Amazon (you’ll need to sign in if you’re not currently signed in) and then choose “Get Library book.” Once you’ve selected a book, click “Borrow” and when this window pops up after your completed your checkout on the library end, click “Read Now with Kindle.” You can filter in the left hand column for only Kindle format ebooks, which makes it much quicker to find the right books. How to Add a Library Book to a Kids Kindleįirst, log into Overdrive or Libby and choose the ebook you want to check out for your child. It’s not obvious how to do it and it took me a bit of fiddling around to figure out how to do it, but once I knew the steps, I could have library books added to Ella’s kindle in 90 seconds or less.

Since then, the number one question I’ve been asked about the Kids Kindle is “Can you put library books on a Kids Kindle?”

A few years ago, we gave Ella a Kids Kindle ereader for Christmas and I wrote a whole post about them here.

Borrowing library books on kindle