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Originally Posted by tazem
I am going to be helping a friend's mother with her Kindle next week and know nothing about them. She has only been able to get books from Amazon, does not know how to move books from the computer, or really much of anything about computers.
I have an Aztak EZReader and a Sony Touch, both of which are very easy to use with Calibre. How is the Kindle? Will I be able to convert to the proper format? Anything special I should know?
I have seen a lot of references here to Python scripts, I am sure this is not something she will be able to do. Is all that really necessary? I would like to be able to just convert books for her and load them onto her reader.
tazem
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The Kindle plays well with Calibre. If you are familiar with using Calibre with your Sony, you would just need to change the output device to Kindle for her. The Kindle can read .mobi, .prc, and .azw formats - all available in Calibre. You can use Calibre on Amazon books to change the meta data (title, author, etc.) if it displays incorrectly on the Kindle. Calibre cannot edit or change the format of books purchased from Amazon unless the DRM is removed.
Both Feedbooks and MobileRead have mobile apps (see the sticky threads below) that can be loaded onto the Kindle - she can "shop" for free books that way - and download them directly to her Kindle.
You only need Python scripts if you are contemplating hacks or removing DRM from purchased books.