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Originally Posted by tomsem
If it is in Dropbox, you can open from there using Share option. I think it needs to be (dual format) .mobi. Pick Kindle and Send To Kindle dialog will appear. You do not need to Save to Kindle Library, just have it sent to the device you are using.
Otherwise, if you have USB wire, and iTunes loaded, I think calibre is smart enough to find the Kindle storage folder that will be mounted. But it has probably been 8 years since I did any of this. The calibre documentation should cover this scenario.
Personally, I would use something other than the Kindle app for this side loading stuff. Convert to ePub and there are better options. I don’t have current knowledge of which apps to check out.
For me, Apple Books would suffice. You can just open from DropBox, and if you choose it will store in iCloud and sync between Apple devices. It’s also one of the few reading apps that has full Accessibility support (in particular Speak Screen, if you want TTS like function).
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Thanks, Tom. I don't have iTunes loaded and probably wouldn't install it on anything I own without an overt threat from Apple that involved one of my nostrils and a bottle brush. iTunes was crap ten years ago, and the last decade has not improved it, more
solidified it. I understand they pretty much removed support for it, and good riddance to that coprolite of programming.
I've not used Apple books or iBooks or whatever it's called although on your recommendation I'll give it a whirl and see what happens.
The main thing about using the Kindle app for sideloading is a certain level of convenience when it comes to books I've actually purchased from Amazon. Hitting the 13th book in the
Demon Accords series and automatically being told "This is the 14th, would you like to open it?" is useful. One of the drawbacks to Calibre is that I haven't figured out how to make the metadata automatically load series and series order, so, for example, consider the
Magic of Xanth by Piers Anthony that has at least 30 books in the series. Which one is in what order?
There may be an easier way to do this all the way around, but I'm not sure what it is. I know that the Kindle is, at best, average for organization of eBooks. I've created my own collections (and exploded when Amazon removed the ability to sideload collections onto the Kindle from Calibre. Typing each damn collection name into their crappy little on-screen keyboard for 90 different collections spanning some 1100 books took me almost three weeks. That was why I gave the 10thGen Kindle a two star review.)
I'm going to continue to play with it, including using external drives that work with iPads to sneakernet books onto the various reading devices, but the USB transfer method would be much faster if I only knew how to do it properly.