Kindles - best way to manage multiple Kindles in the same household?

[Seeline]

My DD would like a Kindle for her 16th birthday. I have my own Kindle, with hundreds of books stored in the cloud.

Trying to work out the best way to set hers up. Should I link it to my account so that she can then access my 'library'? I assume then that she would have access to my Amazon account, and whilst I don't mind her buying books, I don't really want her having unlimited access to my whole account!

If it isn't registered to my account, I assume she would have to have her own Amazon account? Could she then access my past catalogue in some other way?

What works for your family?

I got a Kindle a couple of months ago and DH linked it to his account so I can share his library. It didn't give me access to his Amazon account or him access to mine though?

DS (14) has a Kindle set up as a childrens account off of my Amazon. I buy books and can choose to share them with him - they then automatically turn up on his Kindle. He can't buy anything from the Kindle

DH has his own Amazon account, and we have family library so he can look for books I've bought, but they are shared with him by default (but don't turn up automatically) - I can choose not to share if I want.

It depends on how much overlap there is in your tastes really. Ds likes a lot of what I do, so there was no point in rebuying all my Terry Pratchetts for example, and I'm happy to buy things for him. But as he gets older I can see that he might not want to share his reading requests with me

I have an Amazon Prime account and all the kindles in my family (DS, my parents, my nan) are linked to my account so we can share books easily. In fact everyone in my wider family uses my Prime account for everything, they have their own bank cards stored and addresses on my account. The downloading of books is usually done by me, and whoever wants the book transfers the money to my bank account or adds a gift card to Amazon to cover the cost.

Same as CMOT above. At 16 can she have her own account, or link her own account to your account so if she wants to buy anything she usees her own card (assuming she has one).

@CMOTDibbler
So the family library is linked to everyone's Amazon accounts, or are there separate Kindle accounts?

In a family library you can have 2 adults and up to 4 children. The adults have totally separate accounts and you just let whoever read your books

Quick question. So at the moment if I go to a kindle book on amazon web page I've already got it says " You purchased this on xx date" which is great if you want to know where you're up to in a long series..

If I had a household account and shared with my husband would he see the same message? I'd been sticking to just buying with one account so we don't buy the same book twice.

You would see on that page the green read now button and 'you borrowed this item' underneath, so you know its available to you. In 'manage your content' it is marked 'shared with you'

Thanks CMOTDibbler that sounds like it will work for us