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tamhas · 06-29-2025, 04:47 PM

I am a Calibre user who uses either the Kindle OTA update or Calibre to get books on my Paperwhite. I have a friend, new to Kindle, for whom Calibre seems overkill. I suppose that most of her books will also come OTA, but there are some I would like to share.

I had been thinking that all I needed to do was to instruct her about connecting her Kindle with USB and then copying the KFX from her computer disk to the Kindle, but when I looked at what was actually on my Kindle, I saw a directory for each book with half a dozen files rather than the simple KFX (or earlier version) file. Is this some magic of the Kindle OS or do I need to do something more complicated?

06-29-2025, 04:47 PM	#1
tamhas Zealot Posts: 140 Karma: 1000 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Copying books to Kindle I am a Calibre user who uses either the Kindle OTA update or Calibre to get books on my Paperwhite. I have a friend, new to Kindle, for whom Calibre seems overkill. I suppose that most of her books will also come OTA, but there are some I would like to share. I had been thinking that all I needed to do was to instruct her about connecting her Kindle with USB and then copying the KFX from her computer disk to the Kindle, but when I looked at what was actually on my Kindle, I saw a directory for each book with half a dozen files rather than the simple KFX (or earlier version) file. Is this some magic of the Kindle OS or do I need to do something more complicated?