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Okay now we are getting somewhere. Let's talk for a moment about sideloading.
I'm a little confused about the semantics of the term. I was under the impression that sideloading meant manually placing data onto the device using a wired connection, or by using external storage such as an SD card or USB Flash Drive.
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As someone who once wasted(?) an entire computer science class period debating the proper use of the terms upload vs download on remote controlled peer systems, let's cut it short by saying a wired connection is not required.
In this context, I use the term to mean adding content which was not obtained though the reader's intended content-getting mechanism. i.e., the Amazon store or the Amazon Personal Document service.
Doesn't matter if that content is brought in over a usb wire from a pc, or if it was brought over from another folder on the same tablet.
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Let me see if I understand it. Dropbox is just one of several ways for people to obtain my MOBI file. Is that what you are saying? But no matter how someone obtains my file, they'll still have to sideload it manually,
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Yes.
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by hooking their device up to their PC? Or via SC Card/USB?
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No. Once they get it on the tablet, the sideloading process just involves moving to the right place so the Kindle app can see it, and then possibly the need to restart the app so the new content will be detected.
According to the info in that thread I linked, the Dropbox app can drop it into the correct location directly. If the file is gotten some other way, some other file handling tool would be needed to move it to the right location.
And this is all about Kindle for Android. If your potential readers are using an eink kindle, or Kindle for PC, the process is different, and simpler. Most eink Kindles and Kindle for PC can often download and open mobi files directly.
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I'm not 100% if that's what you mean. I can't just put something in Dropbox and someone can view the file in Kindle simply by accessing that file in Dropbox?
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See above. If I'm using an eink Kindle or Kindle for PC, and you send me an accessible Drobbox file link, or any web link to a mobi file, I can probably just download it and read it.
In Kindle for Android, I'd have to make sure it gets to a particular folder on the device, and then I may need to restart the Kindle app. That's sideloading in my book.