While I do have a love/hate relationship with Amazon, the ability to purchase kindle books and read them is very handy. I have several older 4th generation Kindles, D01200 models, that I recently had to switch to a new Amazon account. Unfortunately, registering them was painful.
TL;DR – Yes, you CAN still register them to an Amazon account in 2024.
There was a lot of information that could be found when looking online. A lot of it was misinformation, so I wanted to state that it could really be done still, as many sites are quoting Amazon representatives saying you cannot register them anymore.
There are also a ton of sites saying use a OTP, one time password, or to turn off two factor authentication, or to do a myriad of other things that I tried, none of which worked. So I am writing this post to say what did work for me.
- Set up a 2FA app for your Amazon account. I use and recommend Aegis.
- With your new 2FA set up, log into Amazon once in your browser to make sure it is all working properly.
- On your Kindle, go to Settings -> Registration and choose that you already have an account.
- In the prompt, put your email address you use for the account.
- In the password block, type your password with the 2FA code as one word, like this: yourpassword2FAcode
- Click register and enjoy!
I hope to save the next poor soul from having to try 20 different methods for the next 2 hours by just telling them what worked for me.
Linux – keep it simple.