Oct 2, 2018 - After downloading a.mobi file, there are three ways to add it to your Kindle library. We recommend first trying to use Amazon's Send to Kindle. Dec 17, 2018 - The Amazon Kindle is a great ebook reader, but it's tightly tied to Amazon's ecosystem. Using a bit of free software, you can take ebooks in the EPUB, Mobi, and PDF formats and zap them over to your Kindle lickety-split. Good news: If your books are in the Mobi format, they're.
PCMag reviews products, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. The Amazon Kindle is a great, but it's tightly tied to Amazon's ecosystem. If you have a Fire tablet or a smartphone, you can download other e-reading apps to beef up your library, but with the E Ink Kindles (including the new waterproof ) you're pretty much tied to getting your content directly from Amazon. Well, sort of. Using a bit of free software, you can take ebooks in the EPUB, Mobi, and PDF formats and zap them over to your Kindle lickety-split. Here's how to do it.
The easiest way to put books on your Kindle is to do it via email. To get your Kindle's email address, go to using your PC's web browser. Up top, click the Devices tab.
In the list below, find the relevant Kindle device and click the three dots on the left. In the pop-up window, you'll see an @kindle.com email address.
(It's set to a default address, but you can change it by clicking Edit.) Back up top, click the Preferences tab and scroll down to Personal Document Settings. Click the down arrow on the right and scroll to 'Approved Personal Document E-mail List.' The email attached to your Amazon account should be listed here. If that's the email address you'll be using to send e-books to your Kindle, you're all set. To use a different email, click 'Add a new approved e-mail address' and enter the address you want to use. Remember, your Kindle needs to be attached to a Wi-Fi or 3G network for this to work.
It doesn't have to be your home network, of course; you can go to a coffee shop or a public library, for instance. Choose Your E-Book Format. Now you know how to email an e-book to your Kindle, the next step is to figure out your e-book's format, which will determine how best to send it. Mobi Format Good news: If your books are in the Mobi format, they're already readable by the Kindle. Attach the file to an email, send it to your Kindle's email address (with any subject, and nothing in the body of the email), and it should appear on your Kindle shortly.
You can also drag and drop the file onto your Kindle if you attach the device to your PC with a USB cable. PDF Format Amazon can automatically convert PDFs into the Kindle format, but you get two formatting choices. If you want your Kindle to display every page in the PDF as if it were a graphic, just email the.pdf file to your Kindle's address without a subject line. That will maintain the formatting and graphics, but the font size may be too small to read. If you're okay with this kind of formatting, you can also drag and drop the file onto your Kindle if you attach the device to your PC with a USB cable. Your other option is to attach the PDF file to an email, and make the subject line 'Convert' —just that word.
Send it to your Kindle email address and your PDF will be converted into a Mobi file, where you can control the font size and formatting. The graphics will still be in there as well, but you'll lose the layout of the original PDF. EPUB Format EPUB is a common ebook format around the web, but the Kindle can't read it natively.
That's okay; you can convert.epub files to Mobi files for the Kindle to read. The key is a free piece of software called. Calibre can reformat almost any kind of ebook for almost any ebook reader, although cracking the copy protection on books purchased from Amazon or certain other stores is forbidden. Calibre is available for Windows and Macs.
When you set up the software, it asks you for your model of ebook reader, and a pop-up suggests sending the books by email. Fill in the email address for your Kindle and the authorized email address that you've set to send documents to your Kindle with. Once you set up Calibre, click on Add Books and pick out any free ebook files you've downloaded. They'll appear in the Calibre library. Now click on an entry in your Calibre library and choose Convert Books from the top bar. In the upper right-hand corner, make sure to set the Output Format to Mobi.
Click OK, and wait until the Jobs number at the lower-right of the main screen goes from 1 down to 0. Now select the title again and click Save to Disk. Pick the folder you want to save it in. It'll create a subfolder with the name of the author.
In Explorer or Finder, drill into that folder until you find the juicy Mobi file within, which you can email to your Kindle or drag and drop onto it using a USB cable. So Where Do I Get Free Ebooks?
There are lots of places to get. Calibre actually has a good metasearch function and you can click Get Books to search by title or author. It's not the friendliest for browsing though, so it's best if you know exactly what you're looking for. If you belong to a US public library, try downloading. Available for Windows and macOS, it hooks into public library catalogs and lets you download Kindle books through Amazon.
You can and OverDrive for every type of device. If you want classics, a great place to start is. Project Gutenberg, which has been around basically as long as the internet, has nearly 60,000 copyright-free ebooks. has even more downloadable books.
The classics are available to download as PDFs, which you can then email to your Kindle using the PDF method above. For historical and academic texts, check out. mixes classics and self-published titles, with over 50,000 in its library.
You'll find more classics and self-published works at. There's also, though most of the books don't seem worth reading.
If you like science fiction, the publisher also has a set of free ebooks.
145 Shares For over three years now, Amazon has offered Kindle users free cloud storage for their ebooks. This Kindle Cloud supports many of the same reading features that you get with ebooks bought from Amazon, including highlights, notes, bookmarks, dictionary lookup, and syncing your reading position across all of Amazon's Kindle apps and ereaders. It's pretty useful, and here's how you can set it up. First things first: Do you want to do this the easy way or the hard way?
The hard way is much more useful and works from any email account, but the easy way works just as well and is less hassle. I'll show you the easy way, and then the hard way. You tell me which is better.
The Easy Way The easy way to send ebooks and documents to your Kindle Cloud is to install an app called. There's a version for, and, and once it is installed and configured it is dead simply to use. For the PC app, simply select the file you wish to send (in Windows explorer, for example), right click on it, and choose the Send2Kindle option. This should also show up as a print option when viewing a file in MSWord, Adobe Reader, etc.
And do you know the best part about Send2Kindle? When you run the app, it will create a window. Any compatible file which you drag to that window and release will be sent to your Kindle Cloud.
For more details on this app, visit the on Amazon.com. Or you can launch the app and click on the help button. That's the easy way; here's the hard way.
The Hard Way Setup To start, open the Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon.com: Log in to your account, and switch to the settings tab: Scroll down the page until you see the section labeled 'Approved Personal Document E-mail List'. This is the section where you will need to list all of the email addresses which you will be using to send content to the Kindle Cloud. It looks like this: Amazon wants you to tell them all the email addresses which are authorized to send content to your account.
I bet they want to limit spam, so think of the email addresses which you plan to use to send content to the Kindle Cloud and add them one at a time. One you've done that, scroll up that manage your Kindle page and find the section titled 'Send-to-Kindle E-Mail Settings'. It looks like this: This is where you'll find the specific email addresses for each of the Kindle apps and hardware.
Did you know that you can send a document or ebook to a specific app or Kindle? That's why they each have their own email address. Edit: And as a reader reminded me, not all apps have a unique email address. The Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle Windows 8 app, and the Kindle for PC app do not. The Cloud Reader and Windows 8 app also do not support reading your personal ebooks.
Thanks, Timothy! If you're like me, you'll have a number of devices and apps on your account. Make a note of which ones you use the most, and add the email addresses to the address book in your email account. That's It You've now finished all of the steps to get ready to send ebooks to the Kindle Cloud.
In contrast to the setup process, sending the ebooks is very simple. All you have to do is choose one of the email addresses you just added to your address book and send an email to it with the ebook attached. Addendum Here are the documents you can send (the files have to be under 50MB in size):. Microsoft Word (.DOC,.DOCX).
HTML (.HTML,.HTM). RTF (.RTF).
JPEG (.JPEG,.JPG). Kindle Format (.MOBI,.AZW). GIF (.GIF). PNG (.PNG). BMP (.BMP). PDF (.PDF) The PDF files will be sent without alteration, but all the rest will be converted to Kindle format.
Also, the Kindle format ebooks will be mangled when you email them, so don't be surprised if your pretty ebooks come out looking ugly. It Could Cost You Before you send any files, let me warn you that Amazon sometimes charges delivery fees. If you have a 3G-equipped Kindle, Amazon will charge $.15 per megabyte. Also, if you are sending content to your smartphone or tablet over a 3G or 4G data connection, your service provider might charge you for delivery. Luckily Amazon offers the option of limiting to only delivering to Kindles over Wifi. You can find it on the Manage Your Kindle page under the settings tab (Whispernet Delivery Options).
You can also set a limit on how much you're willing to pay for the delivery cost. Don't Forget to Enable the Archive Option One of the features I like the most is that way that Amazon will add your ebooks to your Kindle account. It's useful, but it also has to be enabled. You can do that on the settings tab of the Manage your Kindle page.
Just as an FYI, not all Kindle apps have email addresses nor can you send documents to them from MYC&D. Kindle for PC and Cloud Reader are two exceptions. The size limitation can be a factor. The file(s) are limited to 50 MB but you may send up to 25 e-books at a timeas long as it is not more than 50 MB total.
If you want your docs to be synced, make sure the archiving option is chosen. There is a checkbox on the PC app and an optional setting for default archiving (located immediately after the list of device email addresses on MYC&D). I don’t believe any of the computer apps have it. The reason suddenly occurred to me.
Personal documents have always been tied with device/app email addresses. What if someone gets around the restriction and manages to send malware to the computer app?
As soon as you turn on the app, the malware silently downloads, and your computer is compromised. Amazon eliminated the possibility by never enabling email addresses for those apps. However, there is a real danger in malware being sent other non-eink devices. There’s been a number of people who’ve been locked out of their devices with ransomware (Probably from Pr0n websites or other questionable places). However, the malware could even come from an approved source. That’s a good reason to be careful what addresses are on the approved list.
Hello Nate, I would like to buy a kindle for my best friend Anna in Moscow, Russia. I have bought her actual books and not only was it hard to get it shipped to Russia, it was very expensive. I had to buy the one book from amazon.es because the US amazon wouldn’t ship it and I just ordered a book on the US amazon and had to have it delivered to me first. Then it cost me 29 dollars to resend it to her, not to mention how long it takes to get to her and also hoping it will eventually get there.
So I would like to surprise her with a kindle but from what I read, she can’t buy books off amazon.com. Would you know if it would be possible for me to purchase the books and then email them to her? I don’t want her to have to pay any extra money to download the books that I will have already paid for. I saw the address so she could maybe download the books by wifi but would this work?
Would there be an issue with her using her own email as it wont be the one registered to her? It seems so confusing but I would really like to send her one. Any info you could give me would be very much appreciated. Take care, Margaret. Margaret: DRM will be a problem, you can mail Kindle ebooks without DRM to Russia, but the DRM which are on a lot of bought ebooks will prevent them working. There are a few ways to get around it: you could strip DRM, your friend could try to buy ebooks at Amazon.Com – works for me with a German IP and German credit-card and Amazon.Com knowing I life in Germany, I cannot buy all offered ebooks at Amazon.com, but most.
Maybe she needs a VPN to get around Russian blocks, but that would help anyway. Stripping DRM will probably be the easiest way if you want to buy the books, but that may be illegal, depending on where you live, sending them to another person to read is certainly illegal. Or if she has net-access with the Kindle, but no way to buy at Amazon.Com, you could register the Kindle to your Account, so she can buy but you pay for it (requires a certain amount of trust in her not to abuse it). Nate,the fact is that internet access in Europe is expensivejust the way it iscountries are different. My intention is to have students put everything they will need on their Kindles before they leave the U.S. Obviously the material for one class would be far less than the capacity of a kindleI’ve got a few books max and some readings while even a cheap kindle could hold far more books than most people will read in a lifetimecertainly a hell of a lot more than a few college classes.
What I want to know has nothing to do with any of that. I want to know if kindle files can be downloaded from a non-kindle websitesuch as any university maintains for online classes.
The primary reasons I want to do this are 1)kindles are cheapone I have in mind is now selling for $60, 2)kindles are light (especially compared to textbooks), 3) internet access is expensive in Europe.