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Originally Posted by Heathside Boy
I haven't actually got a Kindle yet. I use my laptop to read e-books. What I would actually like to do is send the PDFs to someone who has got a Kindle. I just wondered whether she would be able to put the PDFs from her computer onto her Kindle and be able to read it on the Kindle.
I have got Calibre, so I could convert the PDFs to Mobi.
Is the general consensus that the Mobi format is the proper format to be used with a Kindle?
Once on your computer, can a Mobi then easily be uploaded onto a Kindle?
HB |
Reading PDF's on a 6" eReader is pretty awful, it involves teeny print or zooming in and out which is a pain. If the PDFs are text, then the best thing would probably be to convert them to MOBI, which is the proper format for a Kindle. As everyone has said, you can convert the files yourself using calibre (although the conversion will not be error free, PDFs don't convert well). Once on a computer a MOBI file can be easily dragged and dropped via USB into the documents folder of a Kindle.
The email option I mentioned is still available, you can email and convert the PDF files via Amazon if you know her Kindle email address and she approves the email address you are sending from on her Personal Document Settings page of her Amazon account. All she'd have to do is connect to wifi and the books you sent would download directly to her Kindle.