First way for a Kindle device: Download the books onto your computer. It will generally end up in your downloads folder. Using your USB cable, plug your Kindle into your computer.
Your Kindle will show on your computer menu like a flash drive. When you disconnect your Kindle, the book will appear in your Kindle library. First way for a Kindle app on an Android phone: Download the books onto your computer. Your phone will show on your computer menu like a flash drive. When you disconnect your phone, the book will appear in your Kindle library. Find the ebook in your downloads files on your phone. Copy it. Paste your ebook file there. It should show up now on your Kindle app.
Need more help with this? Here is a tutorial that may help. Scroll down from the personal document settings, and you will see a list of approved emails. Add the address that you will use to email the file to your Kindle. Then go to your computer or phone, attach the file and email it to your kindle.
It will appear on your Kindle or Kindle app exactly as if you purchased it from Amazon. The process is essentially the same in Google Drive; in iCloud Drive, Copy to Kindle appears in the top row of the first Share sheet, eliminating the need for the Open In step. I suspect that Amazon limits the file size to 50 MB for historical reasons related to the low-throughput Whispernet network that the early Kindles used.
My understanding is that when the Send to Kindle app or email service transfers the actual file to a particular Kindle, it sends only the format that makes sense for that device. In the meantime, you can work around the restriction with a USB connection or an Internet file sharing service. Not to mention on other platforms like Windows and Android. I have a humble first generation Kindle Paperwhite so I don't use it for formatted content like the Take Control books.
Usually, Calibre generates roughly the same size mobi as ePub. Just convert ePub to mobi inside Calibre will do. User Name Remember Me?
Password Notices Tip Got Facebook? How to tell between the formats? I know the answer is here somewhere but I can't figure out how to find it. All ebooks have the extension. Could someone give me the name of a free text editor, so I can use it to check out the files? Thanks in advance. Originally Posted by BeccaAnn. Unfortunately, this didn't work. The samples didn't have tpz0 at the start, only symbols some in Chinese , so I bought the book.
Checked them through notepad and they were topaz files. Now I have three books that I can't read except through my PC. Does anyone think I can return them and get a refund? Not enough. Download the app , book gets downloaded from it right to your kindle library. For some years have moved. After updating the Kindle seem to have lost the association, double click brings up dialog box asking for manual selection but the Kindle no longer appears in the list of programs.
Have uninstalled and re-installed without affect so am presently unable to access my large library of. Is it possible this is caused by the Kindle software having become an app buried in the Users tree?
OKAY — in case anyone picks this up I finally solved the problem. One needs a third party utility which will edit the list of associated file types. Then it is simply a case of adding the. Windows will then pick up Kindle and as before a double click on a mobi file will a open Kindle and b add the book to the list in the Kindle library.
Should work. You can set up the association between. This puts the file on the Kindle itself but unfortunately it does not get synced to the cloud account and is not available on another device.
Other than downloading it again on my computer and emailing it to my Kindle email, is there a way round this? This depends on your email provider, but generally you may not be able to.
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Search Ask Leo! Leo, I bought one of your books and I see that I can download the book in. Only one question: after I download it how do I get the book from my computer to my Kindle? Do this Subscribe to Confident Computing! I'll see you there! You may also like: I Run Anti-virus Software. It's frustrating, because you'd think it would be. I'll walk through one common solution. Two of them will make you hope you backed up recently.
While the Read more. Thank you Tomas Reply. There are ereaders other than Kindle, you know. Talk to us about Nook and Nook color, please Reply. Excellent help! You may need to mail it to your kindle address to add it to your Kindle collection.
Thank you for the Android tablet advice. After two wasted hours I can finally start my book! Why do my emailed books go to Documents instead of Books? Gramma Judy B Reply. On my Fire the files I send show up in Docs as well.
In most cases re-downloading solves the problem Reply. How I can get my Mobipocket books prc files into my android note DLS Reply. Did you try emailing them to your account as Leo suggests? Thanks Reply. Thanks back! Thank you so much! I found several different forums but this is the only advice that worked!!!! JM Reply. Megan Reply. Cordially, john Reply.
Dear Leo, I am so, so grateful for your explanation on how to transfer a mobi book to my Kindle Paperwhite using the Kindle E-mail address No matter what I tried I had been unable to move the downloaded book to my device.
I followed your instructions to the T and it worked perfectly. Does kf8 mobi support the audio content? Did you install it yourself? What Windows version? Hope this makes sense and helps some Reply. Thanks again, Carl Reply. You might need to reinstall the Kindle app on your PC.
I have several 4 mobi books I want to email to my Kindle Fire. May i email all in 4 in one email or must I send 4 separate emails? John Atlanta Reply.
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