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Originally Posted by jswinden
I'm not sure if the pdoc trick with calibre works on the Fire. I never use this method.
However, the Personal Documents cloud syncing method by emailing a mobi to your Kindle so that it can be placed in your Archive and thus treated like a book purchased via Amazon is not yet supported on the Fire. The Fire cannot access archived Personal Documents nor can it sync archived Personal Documents. At present only Kindle E Ink readers can do this. We are still waiting for this feature to be extended to the Fire and the Kindle for Android/iOS apps.
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I'm not sure how what I did differs from what you say above is not possible. I'll just say what I did that worked for me. I have a large library i've been working with Calibre and my iphone 3GS. I just got the Kindle Fire.
I removed [pdoc] and added [ebok] as the tag for my files and then converted to Mobi (either from epub or from existing mobi to reconverted mobi) and I
a) Added my email address to my Amazon account at amazon.com as an accepted/known sender of books
b) emailed a .mobi file to my kindle fire email address.
c) logged back into amazon.com account and found the option to approve or disprove sending of a book by that name to my kindle fire. The time elapsed from emailing the book to the kindle fire account and when this option showed up on the account page seemed to be several hours.
d) At the amazon website, I approved the transfer
e) Within a few moments, the book became available for use in the Documents folder of my kindle fire
So... from experience you CAN email yourself books to the kindle fire.
What I haven't done which I think might be part of the op question is if books you sent to your KF will ALSO be available to other kindles on your account. My guess is you have to email to each individual kindle email address if the book in Q was processed initial on the KF. It sounds like other kindles currently work with cloud syncing so that what is uploaded for one kindle becomes available for others in the cloud. I haven't tried that because I dont have any other kindles.
Just posted this to clarify to anyone reading this thread that the fact that kindle fire doesnt have cloud computing enabled does NOT mean that you cannot email books to your Kindle Fire and have them arrive on the KF.