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Old 10-04-2020, 06:42 PM   #24
rcentros
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Originally Posted by book64 View Post
I am planning to look for a Kindle 2011 or 2012 this week.
Have noted from the other board how to download books to it once I have it.

But want to figure out how to get the kindle started.
Read that you have to download the correct old software from Amazon to my pc.
Then drag it to the kindle to install.
Once its working ok then I try sending books to it. ...
I use Linux and have never installed the Kindle PC software. I use two methods to download the books for Calibre. Mostly I just download the book(s) to the Kindle device (a black Kindle "no touch") and read the book into Calibre via a USB cable.

But, when I don't have the Kindle with me, I just download to Linux computer for USB transfer. In my case I use tell Amazon that this download is for the Kindle "No Touch" because I have newer Kindles and I want to make sure I get the AZW3 format. (If you will only have one Kindle device, this won't be necessary.)

Either way works without any special software (just Calibre and DeDRM utilities — I use pre-5.x Calibre for now). I usually download to the Kindle "no touch" because I — more or less — use that device as my Kindle backup. (I don't have thousands and thousands of books.)
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