Password? for Kindle

[Bette]

I am concerned about kids downloading titles while the Kindle is checked out. According to Amazon, there is no way to lock out the account from students downloading new titles. This is really going to put the kibosh on our purchase of Kindles. Anybody know of a way to prevent this?
Thanks

[Joyce Dustin Demientieff]

I was actually checking on ebay and saw that the cheapest used Kindle 2 is going for $109. I teach in Japan and my spring 2009 kindle cannot download wirelessly here in Japan (it does in the States), but the newer ones download internationally. I have to buy books on my PC and then transfer via USB. I was actually thinking that soon it would be a good deal for me to buy five more used kindles so that I would have a total of 6 on my account and just experiment with them this year loaning them out in the classroom and kids can't download on my account and I don't have to bother calling tech support. Shortly idiot vendors on ebay are going to figure out that they can't sell an old kindle for above $139 (price of the new one) and the prices should plummet.

[Will DeLamater]

Great observation--agreed! All other readers are going to drop in price, and for schools a Sony really does most of what is needed as well as anything else. An e-ink screen, the single largest component cost in all these devices, is the same thing regardless of manufacturer...

[Rita Ann Thompson]

Question for everyone....  I just spoke with Amazon and they told me that you should not de-register the Kindle since the books cannot be read if you do so.  They recommended to me that I should simply remove the credit card after I purchase anything.  This way, without the credit card number, nobody can purchase anything for the Kindle.  I have not heard this in any other discussions.  Is this the case? 

 

My district if fighting me in letting me purchase them for 2 worries.  One is the ability to access unfiltered content and two is if they have the ability to purchase items without approval.  I was hoping that the above scenario would help with not allowing them to purchase things.  And, from this discussion, I was hoping that having them disconnect the Whispernet would allow them not to look at things on the Internet.   Is this correct?  Any other suggestions?  Thanks!

 

[Shannon Shrum]

After many discussions with Amazon about this, our solution has been to go into our Amazon account onlilne and remove our credit card information from the account while the Kindles are checking out to the students.  At semester break, all the Kindles are returned to us and removed from circulation, so that we may add the credit card information and order more titles.  The credit card information is removed from the Amazon account when the Kindles are returned to circulation. If there is not an active credit card on file with the Amazon account the only titles the students can obtain are the free ones.

[Louis W. Ziegler]

Nook and Nookcolor have password protection, you can't buy a book if you don't know the password