My Downloaded Kindle Books
Your Kindle Fire works great as an Amazon shopping device, but you need not be limited only to books you buy through Amazon. If you buy legal copies of books from other sellers, you can usually transfer them to your Kindle, such as single ebooks that you legally purchase and download from Tor or other bookstores that offer non-DRM-protected files.
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File Formats for Kindle Fire
Amazon's Kindle for PC reader saves a copy of your books to your hard drive, once you download them. Note that you have to download them from the cloud; new books aren't downloaded to a device unless (1) you told Amazon to send that book to that device or (2) you downloaded the book from the app on that device. If you want to download a previously purchased book, tap the home icon in the Kindle Store, and then tap 'My Library.' Then, go to 'All' in the top-left corner, and tap the book you want to download. To learn how to download a Kindle book on a PC or Mac computer, scroll down! Hi, after downloading books from my old Kindle to my new Kindle Fire 8, I can't find the downloaded books on the new Kindle. According to the computer, they were downloaded into Fire Internal storage Books. BUT when I go into the Books app on the Kindle, I don't see them. These are not books that are in my Amazon account.
Amazon Kindle natively reads .mobi files. If you have a book in ePub format, you can still read it, but you'll either need to convert the file using a program like Calibre or install a separate reading app like Aldiko on your Fire.
Supported file types for Kindle books include:
- Kindle Format 8: Amazon's version of the EPUB3 standard
- MOBI
- AZW: A copy-protected version of MOBI
- PRC
Beyond books, your Fire supports nonbook documents that you can upload to your account and read as if they were books. Supported files for Kindle Fire personal documents include:
- TXT
- DOC
- DOCX
You can open and read books that are PDFs, but you cannot do so under the Books tab on your Kindle or the Kindle app on your mobile device. PDFs are under Docs, which explains why your Kindle Fire user guide is located in Docs instead of under Books.
Transferring Your Files by Email
You can email your Kindle files as attachments. The files must be in one of the supported formats, and they'll be added to the Docs section of your Kindle. To set this feature up, log into Amazon.com and then go to Manage Your Content and Devices: Personal Document Settings.
My Downloaded Kindle Books List
You'll need to set up the authorized email account and address. Generally, it will be something like 'your_name_here@kindle.com.' Only emails coming from approved email addresses will work.
Transferring Your Files by USB
If you use a micro-USB cable and connect it to your computer, you can transfer files to and from your Kindle as if it were an external hard drive. Place any .mobi files in the Books folder, and place .pdf and other formats in the Documents folder. After you've added your files, you may need to restart the Kindle to get it to recognize your new books.
Transferring Using Dropbox
Use Dropbox to transfer files, using these steps:
Find an ebook file in your Dropbox, then press the triple-dot menu icon to perform additional actions to it. Do not open the ebook file.
Next, tap Export.
Choose Save to Device, then Show SD Card, even if you don't have an SD card. This step gets you to the internal memory as well.
Tap on Internal Storage (your Fire) or Storage Device (your SD card), then tap the Save button.
After this step is complete, restart your Kindle Fire. Your books will appear after the reboot. If your book does not appear, double check that you waited for the book to fully copy to your Kindle's hard drive and double check that you chose the correct folder for the file format.
My parents bought me an Amazon Kindle ebook reader for Christmas. Very cool. They also told me that they bought me a few books on Amazon (we share an account). I’m baffled, though: how do I get those books onto my Kindle?
For the unacquainted, the Amazon Kindle is an e-ink portable reader that allows you to download and bring over a thousand books with you wherever you go. The Kindle syncs to your Amazon account so managing your books, magazines and blogs couldn’t be easier.
First, make sure your Kindle is registered. If you used your Amazon account to buy your Kindle, it ships to you pre-registered. For those who got a Kindle as a gift, first press the Home button, then the Menu button. Go to Settings and select Register. Enter the details as you would enter on Amazon.com to login. Now your Kindle can talk to the cloud.
If your parents used your Amazon account to buy books already, they’re waiting for your download. Go to Amazon.com and click Your Account (on the top right of every page). Sign in and scroll dow to the Digital Content section where you can manage Kindle content, MP3’s from Amazon’s digital music store, and other downloadable items.
Click Manage Your Kindle and you should be looking at your newly registered Kindle
Scroll down to find a section called Your Orders which should include the titles that your parents bought for you. Tell Amazon to deliver your book to your new device upon which time Amazon will serve the file up and wait for your Kindle to ask for the new content.
Picking up your Kindle, press the Home button, followed by the Menu button. Make sure your Kindle’s wireless services are turned on upon which time you will see “3G” in the upper right corner with (hopefully) a few black signal bars. White signal bars mean that the Kindle is still searching for a 3G connection.
Navigate down to Sync & Check for items:
Now press the 5-way controller in to select your option and your books should be available on your Kindle shortly!