![]() EmailThe 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. Tap on 'Your Devices,' then choose the relevant Kindle from the gallery below. Next to 'Email,' you'll find the Kindle's email address. Now click 'Settings' and scroll all the way down to the 'approved personal document e-mail list.' Click 'add a new approved e-mail address,' and add the email address you intend to send your books from. 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. Mobi Format Good news: If your books are in the Mobi format, they're already readable by the Kindle. Another way you can transfer your books to another Kindle is to go to your Amazon. Transfer books from one Kindle to another. Kindle app to my Kindle ebook. My parents bought me an Amazon Kindle ebook reader for Christmas. They also told me that they bought me a few books on Amazon (we share an account). Feb 17, 2013 When you buy an ebook from Amazon, it's yours, right? Technically speaking, Amazon is merely licensing the book to you. And the company can, seemingly on a. A tutorial that shows how to download books to your Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. How to Download Books to Kindle Fire. Visit the Amazon Kindle eBook store. ![]() ![]() Attach the.mobi file to an email, send it to your Kindle's email address (with any subject, and no body in the email), and it should appear on your Kindle shortly. 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. ![]() ![]() 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 OK; 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 both Windows and Mac PCs. When you set up the software, it asks you for your model of ebook reader, and suggests sending the books by email. Unfortunately, Calibre's own email system was all screwed up when I tried it. You'll just have to send them manually. Once you set up Calibre, click on 'Add books,' and pick out the 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 the 'output format' is '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 as above. So Where Do I Get Free Ebooks? Calibre actually has a good 'get books' metasearch function, but you need to know exactly what you're looking for; it's not for browsing. If you belong to a U.S. Public library, try downloading the Overdrive Media Console. Available for both Windows and Mac PCs, it hooks into public library catalogs and lets you download Kindle books through Amazon. You can find your library's Overdrive Web site at, and the Overdrive. If you want classics, a great place to start is. Project Gutenberg, which has been around basically as long as the Internet, has nearly 50,000 copyright-free ebooks. Has even more downloadable books; it also has a lending system that doesn't work with Kindles. For historical and academic texts, check out. Has about 2,500 more recent free books available, and they're even mostly in Mobi format. Mixes classics and self-published titles, with around 30,000 in its library. You'll find more classics and self-published works. There's also, but frankly, the stuff up there looks really awful. (Not dishonest or anything, just bad books.) If you like science fiction, the publisher also has a set of free ebooks. Some bookstores use copy protection that doesn't work with Kindles. Unfortunately, that's the case for Google Books, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble. Also, remember, text files and Word documents can be emailed to your Kindle, too! Just send them to your Kindle's email address and enjoy. PCMag.com's lead mobile analyst, Sascha Segan, has reviewed hundreds of smartphones, tablets and other gadgets in more than 9 years with PCMag. He's the head of our Fastest Mobile Networks project, one of the hosts of the daily PCMag Live Web show and speaks frequently in mass media on cell-phone-related issues. His commentary has appeared on ABC, the BBC, the CBC, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, and in newspapers from San Antonio, Texas to Edmonton, Alberta. Segan is also a multiple award-winning travel writer, having contributed to the Frommer's series of travel guides and Web sites for more than a decade. Other than his home town of New York, his favorite. Learn the navigation controls. The Kindle's navigation controls are the 5-way controller, the two next page buttons, the home button, the menu button, and the home button, and the keyboard. • The 5-way controller picks an item or an action when depressed (pressed down). You can highlight onscreen up and down or side to side based on which buttons you're pressing. • There are two next page buttons, one on either side to allow for different styles of holding the Kindle, but they both take you to the next page in whatever you're reading. • The previous page button takes to the page you were just on. • The home button, located above the next page button on the right side, takes you back to your library, also known as the content that is stored both in your Kindle and on Amazon. • The menu button is used to shows the application and navigation choices of whatever screen you're looking. It's located above the 5-way controller. • The back button is located below the 5-way controller and is used to retrace your steps. So, for instance, if you follow a link in a book, pressing back will take you back to the page in the book you were reading. • Your keyboard is used to enter search terms, notes or URLs. You will also find the symbol key, which shows a menu of different punctuation, and the text key, which manipulates text size and the number of words per page for easier reading. Turn the Whispernet button on. This will allow you to connect with Amazon and will be how you purchase and download items. You'll also need it to register your Kindle so that you can move items onto the device. The button is located in the back next to the On button. • Some Amazon Kindles come without a physical button to turn Whispernet on, but you can easily access the 'power' for turning Whispernet on from directly on the device. • Press the Menu button from the Home screen. • Press the 5-way controller up once, until the cursor stops on 'Turn Wireless On' or 'Turn Wireless Off' and press enter. Register your Kindle. You have to register your Kindle to purchase and download items, so that is one of the first things you will want to do. You'll need to make sure that you have access to and have turned on Whispernet. • Go to the Menu button and, using the 5-way controller, select Settings. Still using the 5-way controller select the Register option under Settings. Enter your Amazon username and password (your email address and password for your Amazon account, if you have an account). • If you don't already have an Amazon account, you'll need to create one on the website before you can register your Kindle. Navigate the to home screen. The home screen is basically your Kindle bookshelf. It shows all of your purchases that are synced with your Kindle account. You can even store items on iCloud and access them using your kindle, as long as you have access to Whispernet. • The home screen shows the following things: show options (what you want shown on the home screen), sort options (how you want your items sorted), title and author of your items, progress indicator (how far you are through an item), archived items (these are the things that are stored on Amazon, but aren't downloaded onto the Kindle). Purchase and download items. Amazon has lots of options, like newspapers, books, magazines, audiobooks. As long as you have Whispernet coverage, the items that you purchase can be immediately downloaded onto your Kindle. • Press the Menu button when you are at your Home screen, then press Enter. When you arrive at the drop-down menu of options, it will default to Shopping in the Kindle Store. • Perform a search for your specific item. There are also different lists for items, like bestseller books, popular newspapers, and the like. You can peruse these titles if you aren't looking for something specific. • You will have to use 1-click for purchasing Kindle ebooks and other Kindle items, but there are ways to change your settings to make sure that you're using the correct credit or debit card account. You have to go into your online Amazon account. Go to Manage Your Kindle and then to Kindle Payment Settings. Use a gift certificate. Even though you have to use the 1-click purchasing function for the Kindle, you can still make sure that you use gift certificates if you have them. It's simply a matter of updating your Kindle payment settings and then you can use the gift certificate up until it's finished. • Go to your account page on the Amazon website. Go to the payment section and clock 'Apply a Gift Certificate/Card to Your Account.' Put in your gift certificate number and click 'Apply to your Account.'
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