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wvabob · 02-10-2010, 07:52 PM

Hello again, I am having another problem with trying to download from my computer to my kindle.

Assuming you are using Windows, if you go to Start and then Computer, this opens up the window showing your connected drives (e.g. C, D, etc).
In that window, you should see a drive called Kindle (or at least some indication of a new USB drive).
From there, double click on the kindle drive and you'll see some folders - one of which is documents.
Double click on documents and you should see any all all documents you currently have loaded on your kindle (as well as some other similarly named files).
Now, you can drag document(s) from your computer over to that documents folder on the kindle.
When you unplug your kindle from the computer, you'll see the new documents listed on your home page.
(All of this assumes, of course that the document is in a format that the kindle can understand.)

I can do every thing as describer above by Mitch G, but when I click on computer and it brings up "kindle", and I click on that and get the "kindle" window it does not have any "folders" showing or anything that says "documents".... I've tried going to my document files and trying to send that to my kindle drive, but when I try to send that folder to the actual kindle machine, it just duplicates the folder on the kinkle drive... I'm stumped, does anyone know what I may can do?

also should say that I think i'm in the correct download format (mobi )

I called the help number on the amazon site but they were not very interested in helping me because i had not downloaded these books from their web site, so that was not help.

thanks for any suggestions

02-10-2010, 07:52 PM	#7
wvabob Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: kindle	Hello again, I am having another problem with trying to download from my computer to my kindle. Assuming you are using Windows, if you go to Start and then Computer, this opens up the window showing your connected drives (e.g. C, D, etc). In that window, you should see a drive called Kindle (or at least some indication of a new USB drive). From there, double click on the kindle drive and you'll see some folders - one of which is documents. Double click on documents and you should see any all all documents you currently have loaded on your kindle (as well as some other similarly named files). Now, you can drag document(s) from your computer over to that documents folder on the kindle. When you unplug your kindle from the computer, you'll see the new documents listed on your home page. (All of this assumes, of course that the document is in a format that the kindle can understand.) I can do every thing as describer above by Mitch G, but when I click on computer and it brings up "kindle", and I click on that and get the "kindle" window it does not have any "folders" showing or anything that says "documents".... I've tried going to my document files and trying to send that to my kindle drive, but when I try to send that folder to the actual kindle machine, it just duplicates the folder on the kinkle drive... I'm stumped, does anyone know what I may can do? also should say that I think i'm in the correct download format (mobi ) I called the help number on the amazon site but they were not very interested in helping me because i had not downloaded these books from their web site, so that was not help. thanks for any suggestions