I bought one of those new fangled Fire tablets while on sale.

Question: I bought it to allow visitors to browse the web, check email, listen to music, watch youtube, read books, whatever while at my home.

It appears I need to 'register' the device using my Prime account.

I want people to be able to use the device but not access the Amazon shopping app (and may be a couple of other apps for which I want to remain private, but at this point primarily the shopping app). I don't want them to see what's in my cart, what I've bought and certainly not buy anything .

Do you guys allow 'public' access to family, friends to these types of devices?

If so, how do it without allowing access to the shopping app?

Do you have to be a Prime member to register the device? (there didn't seem to be a manual that came with the device so I'm searching). If not, set up some sort of dummy account? Or what?

We set up one for my nephew with just an email & Amazon account for him - No CC or other billing info.
It's been a while, but we might have had to put in a CC #, but were able to delete it later.

I think you can set your account up to require the PW every time you purchase or look at order history.

I wouldn't hesitate to let a family/friend use my kindle/phone/laptop, but I don't think I'd let them have free reign with it for a long period of time. Not that I think they would snoop or that I'd care that they saw my purchase history, but rather that they'd do something stupid that I'd have to fix. You want full access to a device, bring your own, I'll give you the wifi password. Otherwise, you're SOL.

If it's a spare/loaner from the beginning, I'd set it up on a separate amazon account & just not use it much. Defeats a lot of the utility for you, but if you're not going to use it much it won't hurt too bad.

I don't own a fire tablet but a quick search found this:

Use Household Profiles to Share Your Fire Tablet

You should be able to set-up a guest profile that doesn't allow access to your administrative stuff.

A guest user account on the device itself, and/or a guest/household Amazon account.

I bought a Fire 8" tablet as an emergency backup.
I saw Amazon had them for $29 on Black Friday.

Highly recommended despite the OK, not great display, performance and battery life. There's an easy fix on YouTube to access the much better Google Play Store instead of Amazon's limited offerings.

One review I saw was the best I've seen and sold me on the Fire -- "It's almost rude not to buy one".

Thanks -- I'm trying out the additional profiles (don't think that's going to work) and Parental Controls (seems promising).

I guess tablets are more personal devices and not really meant to be multi-user devices. I think PC may be sufficient but it's a little cumbersome.

Still, this should be a decent replacement for an old iPod (well, actually iphone 4 that i'm using as iPod) that doesn't work worth crap right now (weird, when new it was fine and zippy. now, it just runs like crap and no idea why. I swear that Apple is doing something malicious here to drive purchase of new models).