
If you lose your Kindle, you’ll need to know details such as your Serial Number and purchase date. Register your Kindle on Immobilise – The National Property Register.
In the event of losing your Kindle, you can rest easy knowing it’s unlikely anyone can gain access to your Amazon account.
Set a lock screen password or PIN on your Kindle. If you’re an Amazon Kindle owner and reading this article with your Kindle safely in your possession, I’d urge you to take these steps straight away! It’s therefore in your best interests to take steps to mitigate the potential damage of a lost Kindle as soon as you can! Steps to take before you lose your Kindle! In the case of a Kindle, as well as accessing any books you’ve bought on the Kindle they can order more books through your Amazon account and theoretically use your Amazon account to cause other damage too. Losing any electronic tech is painful, but it’s realising that losing the hardware itself is not the main problem - it’s what someone who finds that hardware can do with the data on that device without your permission. I understand more Kindles are lost while travelling by air than any other way. I suspect I’d made the schoolboy error of placing it into the mesh holder on the seat in front of me on the plane and then forget to pick it up in the hurry to leave the plane upon landing. When I’m travelling my All-new Kindle (2022 release) | The lightest and most compact Kindle, now with a 6″, 300 ppi high-resolution display and double the storage, with ads, Black allows me to take a wide range of books in a single device - no more getting on to a plane or a train and being in the mood for reading a fiction book and finding I’ve only packed a business tome or Visa Versa.ĭuring a recent extended trip away from home, I lost my Amazon Kindle.
I’m a big fan of the Amazon Kindle range of ebook readers.