11-24-2012, 03:13 PM | #1 |
Retired & reading more!
Posts: 2,764
Karma: 1884247
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: North Alabama, USA
Device: Kindle 1, iPad Air 2, iPhone 6S+, Kobo Aura One
|
Question on sideloading paperwhite
Does anyone know if DRM free ebooks can be sideloaded from Dropbox to the Kindle Paperwhite?
Last edited by slayda; 11-24-2012 at 03:15 PM. |
11-24-2012, 03:20 PM | #2 |
<Insert Wit Here>
Posts: 1,017
Karma: 1275899
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Puget Sound
Device: Kindle Oasis, Kobo Forma
|
Yes. They can.
|
Advert | |
|
11-24-2012, 05:32 PM | #3 |
Addict
Posts: 206
Karma: 1683142
Join Date: Nov 2012
Device: Kindle of many shapes, PIPBoy 3000
|
Yep. Good thing, too. I've got a large number of them in my db account to pull around.
|
11-25-2012, 10:44 AM | #4 |
Retired & reading more!
Posts: 2,764
Karma: 1884247
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: North Alabama, USA
Device: Kindle 1, iPad Air 2, iPhone 6S+, Kobo Aura One
|
Next question. I have my own personal cloud using Western Digital's MyBookLive. So could DRM free ebooks also be sideloaded from MyBookLive?
|
11-25-2012, 12:05 PM | #5 |
<Insert Wit Here>
Posts: 1,017
Karma: 1275899
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Puget Sound
Device: Kindle Oasis, Kobo Forma
|
It depends. I haven't used that product.
As long as you can access the files using the browser and its not doing anything goofy, like using flash or something like that, it should work. |
Advert | |
|
11-25-2012, 12:10 PM | #6 |
eBook Enthusiast
Posts: 85,544
Karma: 93383043
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: UK
Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6
|
"Sideloading" is generally used to refer specifically to transferring books via USB. I'm not sure it's really appropriate for downloading from a web site .
|
11-25-2012, 12:34 PM | #7 |
Retired & reading more!
Posts: 2,764
Karma: 1884247
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: North Alabama, USA
Device: Kindle 1, iPad Air 2, iPhone 6S+, Kobo Aura One
|
OK Harry, my apology. So what is the proper word for transferring an ebook from your computer, not via USB, to your ereader?
|
11-25-2012, 02:22 PM | #8 |
eBook Enthusiast
Posts: 85,544
Karma: 93383043
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: UK
Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6
|
But the book isn't on your computer - that's the point . If it's on Dropbox's server and you transfer it to your Kindle using a web browser, it's simply a download from a web site.
|
11-25-2012, 03:36 PM | #9 |
Retired & reading more!
Posts: 2,764
Karma: 1884247
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: North Alabama, USA
Device: Kindle 1, iPad Air 2, iPhone 6S+, Kobo Aura One
|
I guess the cloud has fogged up my mind. However it is on my hard drive with MyBookLive even though I still transfer it across the web. The question still stands as to what the proper term is?
|
11-26-2012, 11:16 AM | #10 |
eBook Enthusiast
Posts: 85,544
Karma: 93383043
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: UK
Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6
|
At the end of the day I guess you can call it whatever you want - it's your Kindle . But personally, if I download it using a browser, I just regard it as a file download, regardless of where it's coming from. I'd reserve the term "sideloading" to mean transferring a file via the USB cable, personally.
|
11-26-2012, 11:46 AM | #11 |
Addict
Posts: 258
Karma: 30680
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Toronto, Canada
Device: Kindle Paperwhite
|
To add another voice as soon as I saw your post I was confused by the terminology. Have to agree with Harry on this one. Sideloading is a USB transfer. Anything else is simply a download. On that note, are you using the Kindles web browser to access Dropbox?
|
11-26-2012, 01:08 PM | #12 | |
Retired & reading more!
Posts: 2,764
Karma: 1884247
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: North Alabama, USA
Device: Kindle 1, iPad Air 2, iPhone 6S+, Kobo Aura One
|
Quote:
I had never looked up the term "sideloading". My concept of downloading is getting something from someone else, e.g. purchased from Amazon, borrowed from library. And looked at sideloading as loading an ebook of my own to my reader, regardless of the method of transferring it. I.e. my concept was that 'loading' something from one of my devices to another of my devices (regardless of the avenue through which it was loaded) was sideloading. Loading something to someone else's device was uploading and from someone else's device was downloading. Since I saw Dropbox simply as a 'way station' in the avenue of loading from my PC to my reader, it seemed more like sideloading. Wikipedia (not always accurate) says,"Sideloading typically refers to media file transfer to a mobile device via USB, Bluetooth or by writing to a memory card for insertion into the mobile device." I would personally have thought that wifi (my own home network) to be similar to Bluetooth. And the Dropbox is 'mine' even though it resides on someone else's computer/drive. I guess it gets kinda of gray there. Comes from talking mostly with yourself. Oh well, like I told my daughter years ago, "Words don;t necessarily mean what you want them to but what most people you're communicating with take them to mean." So I stand corrected before the 'community'. Last edited by slayda; 11-26-2012 at 01:17 PM. |
|
11-26-2012, 01:13 PM | #13 |
Bookaholic
Posts: 14,391
Karma: 54969924
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Minnesota
Device: iPad Mini 4, AuraHD, iPhone XR +
|
It's kind of come to mean adding anything to the device by a method other than through the store it's tied too. At least I see it referenced that way a lot.
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Question about full justification on Paperwhite | snape | Amazon Kindle | 12 | 07-25-2014 10:38 PM |
Question about returning Paperwhite | Ferrian | Amazon Kindle | 2 | 10-24-2012 04:17 PM |
Sideloading on Kindle Paperwhite? | Jane12 | Amazon Kindle | 4 | 10-07-2012 08:17 PM |
2 question on Paperwhite | gers1978 | Amazon Kindle | 37 | 09-10-2012 08:21 AM |
Kindle Fire HD - Sideloading question | Cooling1978 | Kindle Fire | 3 | 09-09-2012 09:03 PM |