I have a B&W Kindle and I like it very much. But now more and more magazines are coming out in Kindle format, but only for color Kindles. I do not want to upgrade.
I wonder if I can order a color magazine to read on my laptop’s Kindle software without somehow screwing up my regular Kindle account.
If both the software reader and the Kindle are authorized with the same Amazon account, the content should be available on both devices automatically. You should also be able to read the magazine on http://read.amazon.com.
Yeah but.
When I tried (accidentally) to order a color magazine on Amazon, I got an error message. (“No authorized device is able to display this file.” or something like that.) Do I need to authorized the laptop too? How?
There is a Kindle Reader application for the PC available free from Amazon. It’s different than the cloud reader linked above, but I don’t know if the functionality is any different. You install it and then register your existing Amazon account (the same one you used for your actual Kindle). Then content you have already purchased will be available on the PC (you have to retrieve it from Archive). I get The Economist and there is one version for my B&W Kindle and a different version if I read it on my Android phone or PC reader.
But you only buy it once, right?
The Kindle for PC app is free, you find it on Amazon.
You only buy content (such as books, games, magazines) once, then it is available on all devices that you have (such as Cloud Reader, Kindle for PC, Kindle for Mac, actual e-ink kindles, kindle fire, Kindle app for android tablet, etc).
Some content has restrictions and can only run on one platform or another, especially apps - games (mostly) or other stuff written for a specific type of hardware: kindle or kindle-fire or android or pc or mac.
Magazines especially have odd restrictions and can sometimes only be read on certain platforms. The page where you buy the magazine should be able to tell you what it can be read on.
You can, instead of subscribing, buy just one issue of a mag for a couple bucks, and try it on different apps and platforms to see if it works.
You just need to install a color Kindle reader program, and run it once to plug in your account settings. Either the Windows version, the OS X version, the Android version or iOS version will work fine.
Also apparently there’s a web version too. Kindle runs on pretty much everything.
Thank you all.
So I did all that only to discover Passagemaker magazine is only available on Kindle Fire and iPad. Grumble.