- #SIGN INTO AMAZON KINDLE READER WINDOWS 10#
- #SIGN INTO AMAZON KINDLE READER VERIFICATION#
- #SIGN INTO AMAZON KINDLE READER CODE#
Choose a different Kindle when you check out your book. Click on "Set as default device." When the confirmation window pops up, click "Save." Now, when you send items to your Kindle from OverDrive, they will automatically go to your new device.Ģ. It will open a page with three grey text boxes on the right side. Under one of them, with blue lettering will be the words "Default device." If you want to make the new Kindle the default device, click on the image of that new Kindle. You will see a section for your "Amazon devices" and another for "Amazon apps installed on devices." Click on the image for "Amazon devices." It will give you images of all devices you have connected. Mouse over the "Accounts & Lists" menu and choose "Content & Devices." Once you're in "Content & Devices", you'll see four tabs across the top of the screen: "Content", "Devices", "Settings", and "Privacy Settings." Click on "Devices." Change your default Kindle to your new device.
So that’s the secret for logging in to your Amazon Kindle account from the Win10 Kindle app.There are a few things you can do to fix this problem.ġ. Once you do that, lo and behold, it works and I’m logged in!
#SIGN INTO AMAZON KINDLE READER WINDOWS 10#
So if your password was “BigDog1” (not a great password) then you’d use “BigDog1812994” as the password to log in to the Kindle app on your Windows 10 tablet.
#SIGN INTO AMAZON KINDLE READER CODE#
As I said earlier, the key is to append the secret code to the end of your password. Please try again.” you’re also getting the secret one-time numeric code sent to your smartphone! In fact, here’s what showed up on my iPhone screen:Īh, now we can proceed. What’s important to know, however, is that simultaneous to you getting the error message “There was a problem with your E-Mail / Password combination. Instead of it going to a second screen and saying “code sent, enter here”, however, it just shows a failure message:
#SIGN INTO AMAZON KINDLE READER VERIFICATION#
I’m logging in myself…Ī click on the bright orange “Sign In” button and it should proceed to the send a secret verification code phase, right? This produces a login screen, nothing exceptional here. Since you already have an Amazon account, you want to sign in, accomplished by tapping on the “ Sign In” button on the lower left.
In any case, tap on it to launch the Kindle app and it shows a generic startup window: Okay, so “nemesis” might be a bit strong! Weird.įirst off, your nemesis, the Kindle app for Windows: Google has you create temporary passwords on a per-app basis, but what Amazon does with the Kindle app is rather unique: you actually append the code sent to the end of your password to log in to the Amazon system within the Kindle app itself. Unless the app doesn’t support the greater security, in which case you’re somewhat left in the cold.ĭifferent companies deal with this situation differently. You log in regularly with your account and password (the “what you know” part), then the server sends a 4-6 digit one-time code to your cellphone (the “what you have” part) that you then also enter on a secondary screen to prove you’re the real user.
The idea of 2-step verification is certainly easy, moving your security to a “what you know” and “what you have” status. Amazon isn’t the first company to offer the improved security of 2-step verification in a way that results in all of its apps to then have to be updated rather significantly to support the better user security system.
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