12-26-2010, 07:49 PM
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Junior Member
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hello and need help
I recently purchased the kindle, and was going through a few websites that have FREE ebooks. I was able to download in a epub format to my computer, and then emailed as an attachment to my kindle email. BTW kindle allows you to have a email account yourname@kindle.com
Now I need to know what I need to do to be able to download the book to kindle. Please reply... Not so computer savvy newbie ereader 
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12-26-2010, 07:52 PM
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Grand Sorcerer
 
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Hi indomom and welcome to MobileRead. Don't know the answer to your question. If someone doesn't come along soon with an answer, try posting your question in the Kindle forum
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12-26-2010, 08:33 PM
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You simply need to go to the Home screen, open the Menu, and select "Sync & Check for Items" answering "yes" if asked to turn on wireless. If you are using a WiFi only K3 you will, of course, have a nearby WiFi access point to connect to. I suggest that you take a look at Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/). Its a library manager and format converter that can do the ePub (along with a whole pantheon of other formats) to MOBI conversion allowing you to move the file to your Kindle over USB or it can email it to your Kindle. There's a forum dedicated to it here on MR. Free ebooks often need some massaging and Calibre can make easy work of most of it. Last edited by dwig; 12-26-2010 at 08:40 PM. |
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12-26-2010, 08:40 PM
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It's about the umbrella
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Welcome to MR (MobileRead), indomom.  I didn't think kindle could read the epub format? Are these the only ebooks that you are unable to use? |
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12-26-2010, 10:13 PM
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PORTAL
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Hello and welcome to MR!
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12-27-2010, 01:31 AM
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It's Dr. Penguin now!
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Welcome! I think you need to convert the books to .mobi so they can be read by the kindle. Calibre should help you out with that!
Definitely check in on the kindle forum! |
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12-27-2010, 01:45 AM
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neilmarr
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Good to have your company, Indomom. Happy Kindling and best wishes. Neil
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12-27-2010, 04:03 PM
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Addict
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Welcome to the MR boards, Indomom, you should be able to covert using MobiPocket.
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12-27-2010, 04:23 PM
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Home for the moment
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Hi, Indomom, welcome to MR from the Netherlands. i would try Calibre; it's such an easy and good program.
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12-30-2010, 05:31 AM
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Chocolate Grasshopper ...
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