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Susan H · 01-13-2019, 05:20 AM

I just bought a kindle 8hd and it wasn't recognised by calibre. To solve this, I connected my kindle to the computer, opened calibre, highlighted the books I wanted to put onto my kindle, then I swiped down from the top of the kindle which opened a menu up, I selected from this small menu the option Tap for other usb options which opened another menu from which I selected the option to transfer files, this opened the send to device option in calibre and after selecting to alter from epub to mobi my books were put onto my kindle. I suspect I will have to do this every time, the menu doesn't seem to keep it's option but automatically reverts back to slow charging.
Hope this helps, I use windows 10 , I don't know if this would work for any other platforms

01-13-2019, 05:20 AM	#7
Susan H Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2019 Device: kindle fire 8hd	I just bought a kindle 8hd and it wasn't recognised by calibre. To solve this, I connected my kindle to the computer, opened calibre, highlighted the books I wanted to put onto my kindle, then I swiped down from the top of the kindle which opened a menu up, I selected from this small menu the option Tap for other usb options which opened another menu from which I selected the option to transfer files, this opened the send to device option in calibre and after selecting to alter from epub to mobi my books were put onto my kindle. I suspect I will have to do this every time, the menu doesn't seem to keep it's option but automatically reverts back to slow charging. Hope this helps, I use windows 10 , I don't know if this would work for any other platforms Last edited by Susan H; 01-13-2019 at 06:03 AM.