Thread: Troubleshooting Can no longer see Kindle .prc files for downloaded books
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Old 01-10-2017, 03:53 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by ittiandro View Post
How you can you know that the files delivered by Amazon Kindle are AZW, KFx, or PRC or other ? I'm just curious and would be more than happy to find them.

I have been racking my brains for two weeks and flooding the Forums across half world to find out.. To no avail.

I am utterly unable to find these files in my PC or my Android tablet file system, as I used to. . All I get is the book to be opened in the Kindle Reader. No other files are delivered , if they exist, they are nowhere in the system..

In the light of my failure to locate these files, I was coming to think that the only plausible explanation is that the hub of Kindle's books delivery system is out there in something like the Cloud. When we download a book from Kindle, it is not delivered physically to the PC or tablet, but only virtual shells, so to speak ( the book icon you click when you want to open the book), even if the book shows in the "Manage your contents and Devices " section" after signing in to Amazon, .

In fact , I verified this by trying to open a Kindle book in the tablet with the Internet disconnected. It won't open. This indicates that the whole file structure of the books is not in the computer, but in the " Cloud" totatlly controlled by Amazon Kindle system and inaccessible without an Internet connection and the heir permission ( sign-in) .
I don't know if I am discovering ..Columbus' egg, but with what I found out as explained earlier , I am still surprised that people claim to find these AZW or KFX files in the physical compure ob tablet. I'd be more than happy to be proved wrong in my " experimental" verification, because finding these files would help me in my academical project, by making a a more efficient use of the Kindle books I download.
I am sure that people tell the truth when they say that they find these files and I am most likely missing out something. Quite possible. There are a lots of people who know computers better than me..

I 'd be really glad to have commebts on this , How and where do you finfd thes eenigmatic, almost ghost-like files?

Ittiandro
1) Locate the folder "My Kindle Content". If you open up Kindle for PC go to Options then in one of the setting lists it will give you the location of the folder. It should be in Documents.

2) Google how to show file extensions on your pc, implement it so that every file shows its extension, I.e doc for word documents, xls for excel documents etc.

3) Go to the folder "My Kindle Content", your downloaded books will be listed by letters and numbers, for example, BZ00HJK01.azw. To know what book is load it into Calibre.

I've typed this from memory as my pc is off now.

Please note: you must have right clicked each book in Kindle for Pc and 'downloaded' the book onto your pc.
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