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Originally Posted by zillerina

I'm not quite as bad as the subject line suggests, but I am hung up on how to get kindle books from Amazon onto my PC or Kindle without re-downloading them.
If I understand correctly I can download a book to my PC or I can download a book to my Kindle. They are also then in my archives.
Say I download to my PC - I can read it on my PC but cannot transfer it to my Kindle. I have to redownload it to the Kindle device itself.
Similarly, if I have downloaded a book to my Kindle (from Amazon), I would have to redownload it to my PC in order to read it on the PC. Simply transferring it to my PC from my Kindle would not allow me to read it on my PC.

Now Amazon will let me download a book intended to be read on my Kindle to my PC, with the idea that I will then transfer the book to my Kindle via USB. But I cannot access it on the PC if I do this.

Am I correct in all this? It is a super frustrating way of doing things, especially as in my case I get internet very infrequently. So I stockpile books for download.

Corrrect. DRM locks the books to the specific device or app they were downloaded for. You can have the ebooks on both your Kindle and the Kindle for PC program at the same time, but the book files will not be interchangeable.

That is another thing I cannot believe I am doing correctly. When I download archived books it seems I can only do them one at a time. When they are stockpiled as I do (due to limited internet time) this is super frustrating because it takes ages to do this and my internet time is used up before I can get through even half of my downloads. Is there no way to bulk download archived items on to the Kindle?

You can send books to your Kindle as you buy them, or from your Manage Your Kindle library, they won't download until you connect the Kindle to wifi, but then the backlog of books will all download together.

Can I do something with the books I have downloaded to my PC, for example, so that I can transfer them to my Kindle without having to go through all this. I am referring in all instances to books I have got from Amazon.

You could strip the DRM, but you'll have to find instructions for doing that elsewhere since it can't be discussed on this forum.

Or have I simply got this whole download thing all wrong and being really dumb (it happens <g>)

Thanks for any help. Preferably in non-technical terms, it's not my strength.

You have it all straight, DRM is annoying.