[Gary_M_Mugford]

Hi all,

New android tablet owner, having purchased a Toshiba Thrive. I have some PDF's and some MOBI's of converted CHM files that I would like on the Thrive that I have no interest in getting onto my Kindle3.

Although I have stayed away from running Kindle for the PC, I did install it to understand the sideloading process. Simple enough, copy the file to the folder, start up K4PC and there the book is. Duplicating that on the Thrive has been a failure.

I have placed copies of the books in the kindle folder, the kindle ebooks folder, the root eBooks folder and just about any other place I can think of. Starting the Kindle for Android app (assumed to be the latest version) never results in finding the books. Neither PDF nor MOBI. There is no import function beyond collections (which I don't use).

On the other hand, Kobo seems to have no problems, although I had to convert the CHM's to EPUB rather than MOBI. That app allows me to search the external media and import the books. Sure, it ends up in the arcane folder system Kobo uses, but the books get to where I would like them. I 'could' stick with the Kobo app, it works as advertised. But I'd prefer Kindle on a consistency basis.

Anybody with any experience? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help, GM