[daffy4u]

Okay, I go it to work but it's so incredibly painful that it may not be worth your while.

The only way to get it to work is to put all of the books in the Public Folder and save the direct link for each and every book (not folder but book). You may not want to do this for every book. Maybe just select titles or non-Amazon purchases.

Here is a sample you can try from my Public Folder (it won't be up all day). The book 1633 from David Weber was a freebie from Baen. You have two choices from Dropbox:

The full url:

--link goes bye-bye

or they will generate a tinyurl address which is much easier to type on the Kindle:

--another link bites the dust