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.
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). I'm baffled, though: how do I get those books onto my Kindle? HOW TO MANAGE CONTENT ON MY KINDLE LIBRARY/DEVICE: A complete step by step guide to manage your kindle library: add books, gift, achieve, delete, lend, share, return books and manage family library. Kindle Books. Note: Kindle Books are currently available for U.S. Libraries only. After you download a Kindle Book from Amazon's website to your computer, you can find the ebook's Amazon file in your computer's 'Downloads' folder. You can transfer this file from your computer to a compatible Kindle ereader via USB. How to Download Books to a Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire is a product similar to the iPad which was released by Amazon in 2011. The Kindle Fire not only allows you to download and read books, but you can also use it to listen to music. 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! Where are books downloaded from Amazon Kindle stored? I download a book from Amazon Kindle app to my Android 4.4.2 phone (Kyocera Hydro Icon), and would like to transfer it to my laptop. Where is it stored in my phone?
File Formats for Kindle Fire
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
![My Downloaded Kindle Books My Downloaded Kindle Books](/uploads/1/2/6/0/126057836/444005041.jpg)
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.
You'll need to set up the authorized email account and address. Generally, it will be something like '[email protected].' 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.
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I am new to Amazon Kindle ebooks. I am using my computer to read Kindle ebooks. I am using Kindle-for-Pc software. I just downloaded an ebook, but I cannot find it anywhere. I need to find it so that I can backup in my flash drive, in case something happens to the computer. I can perfectly read the book from the Kindle-for-Pc program, but I need to find the actual ebook, since it was not free and I don't want to lose it.
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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.
By default, the books are saved in this folder:
Replace
YOURUSERNAME
with your Windows username.Typically, you will have two files per book: a
Ed Cottrell♦Ed Cottrell.apnx
and a .azw
. Backup both of them. You may want to consider an automated backup service to backup these and your other files.![Books Books](/uploads/1/2/6/0/126057836/609673627.jpg)
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I have Windows 10 and also use the PC software. Mine are stored in my 'Documents' folder in subfolder 'My Kindle Content'. That would ordinarily be '%HOMEPATH%DocumentsMy Kindle Content', but I have changed the location of my Documents folder to another drive.
On the Kindle app's toolbar go to 'Tools|Options...' and click on the 'Content' tab. Here you will see the location of your files along with a button giving you the option to change that location.
GollyRojerGollyRojer
I found mine (on Windows 10) in
There's a sub-folder for each downloaded book, containing the .azw and .azw.res files (didn't see a .apnx file).
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RSMilwardRSMilward
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