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stumped · 11-03-2018, 07:36 AM

the kindle browser is a basic browser but should be good enough to see either a calibre content server ( which requires calibre to be running on a PC with that activated ), or to see dropbox or similar

to use a cloud solution like dropbox, you ( well I ) copy the entire calibre library folder to a dropbox folder, using a one way mirror(sync) operation, and repeat that as needed.
the advantage of dropbox is that it is always there, just point the kindle browser at dropbox.com and login, the disadvantage is that is it only as up to date as your last copy/sync
to point the browser at kindle content server, you get the address of that from within calibre. e.g. on my LAN it is 192.168.0.82
I can't say for sure that either or both methods will work with a kindle, it is not something I have tested.
the fallback, if those do not work, is either USB, or amazon's send to kindle method where you email your books to amazon cloud. I assume that if you have books from amazon you have an amazon account to send them to. the "send to kindle" cloud is ( nowadays) separate from any amazon drive, it is just a destination for whitelisted email addresses to send books via email for a kindle device. see amazon help pages.

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stumped Wizard Posts: 3,305 Karma: 10259306 Join Date: May 2016 Device: kobo forma, Kobo Libra, Huawei media Tab, fire HD10, PW3 HDX8.9,	the kindle browser is a basic browser but should be good enough to see either a calibre content server ( which requires calibre to be running on a PC with that activated ), or to see dropbox or similar to use a cloud solution like dropbox, you ( well I ) copy the entire calibre library folder to a dropbox folder, using a one way mirror(sync) operation, and repeat that as needed. the advantage of dropbox is that it is always there, just point the kindle browser at dropbox.com and login, the disadvantage is that is it only as up to date as your last copy/sync to point the browser at kindle content server, you get the address of that from within calibre. e.g. on my LAN it is 192.168.0.82 I can't say for sure that either or both methods will work with a kindle, it is not something I have tested. the fallback, if those do not work, is either USB, or amazon's send to kindle method where you email your books to amazon cloud. I assume that if you have books from amazon you have an amazon account to send them to. the "send to kindle" cloud is ( nowadays) separate from any amazon drive, it is just a destination for whitelisted email addresses to send books via email for a kindle device. see amazon help pages. Last edited by stumped; 11-03-2018 at 07:40 AM.