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Old 09-01-2012, 04:32 AM   #23
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The OP said his mother isn't going to buy books (from mainly English-language shops, anyway) and listed the file formats of the books (that they presumably already have or will have access to).

So I'm thinking sideloading will be needed anyway, although the Kindle would have the benefit of either the OP or their mother being able to use Amazon's "Send to Kindle" program. With that, all their mother would need to do is to keep the device wifi/3G connection on and the OP could send the files to their Kindle remotely via Send to Kindle from their own computer (although for a 3G device, that's not free, I think).

The downside of Kindle is not handling some of those file formats; I'm not sure if FB2 is supported even as one of the formats you can use for emailing the files to the Kindle with the "convert" option; a program such as Calibre (free) should be able to convert FB2 files (and doc, htm etc files) to mobi though. Again, this is something the OP would probably need to learn and do for their mother, but if they can send the files via Send to Kindle, handling all file-related stuff like that might be an option.
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