epub books on the fire..im a newb

[josh thomas]

Hi, so I'm trying to figure out, if its possible, to download epubs to read on my fire. I love the thing but man is it getting pricey as I read about 200 pages a day. I'm not to great with technology and to be honest this is the first forums group I have ever belonged to. Anybody out there that can help me our would be great.

[sirmaru]

Amazon has hundreds of thousands of free books and, if you join Amazon Prime, you can borrow up to one book per month from their lending libary which otherwise would have charges.

[josh thomas]

Thanks, I do that now but my friend googles at epub bud and the books that I just spent over $100 dollars on in the last six weeks and he got every single one for free. My problem is I just don't know what I am doing.lol. I do read a lot of free and cheap stuff too and have discovered some fantastic stuff in doing so. I was just surprised at the titles he is getting for free and would love to be able to accomplish that as well...oh, is it legal?

[CRussel]

No, it almost certainly is NOT legal. It sounds like your friend is download bootleg copies of copyrighted books from illegal sharing sites.

No one here will help you do that. We support the authors we read and we believe in their right to get paid for their work.

[salsaguy]

You can also check out Kindle and epub books from you local county public library using their online login with your library card.
The Fire does not read epub natively so you need to install a reader that reads epubs

[josh thomas]

Yeah, I don't want to steal the books I just wasn't aware if there was some stupefy of sharing site that was legal. Up until a month ago I was a paper guy only so I'm new to the ebook world but loving it.

[josh thomas]

Sounded illegal to me too.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by josh thomas

Hi, so I'm trying to figure out, if its possible, to download epubs to read on my fire. I love the thing but man is it getting pricey as I read about 200 pages a day. I'm not to great with technology and to be honest this is the first forums group I have ever belonged to. Anybody out there that can help me our would be great.

Hi Josh, Welcome to MobileRead!

You can get tons of books for free. Legally. One way to is watch the deals forum here books are always being given away by Amazon, B&N, Sony and other places.

Another way is through your local Library. Libraries now let you checkout ebooks. There's also out of state libraries that for a yearly fee will let you check out ebooks. I belong to 3 of them and get my expensive books that way to read.

Now for how to read anything on the Fire. For epubs you can install a epub reader app. There is Mantano, Aldiko and Nook are the most popular.

There are all kinds of places to buy cheap books. Like Fictionwise when they have coupons going or Smashwords, Baen. Most of these are DRM free. Amazon and B&N are another places and then there is Kobo who also has coupons.

Ebooks don't have to be expensive. My advice is read the expensive books from your library using Mantano, Kindle or Aldiko. Buy the smaller books through the different online stores spending on the best price.

Now what I do is get the Big 6 books from my library. The big six being the publishers who have fixed pricing unless the book is on sale by them. I buy mostly from the small guys or those who self publish these are call Indies.

You can read any format on the Fire. It works just like any other tablet.

As for your friend he probably gets his books from the darknet. We frown upon that here.

[kellyh]

I currently use a Sony reader which uses epub documents. I am looking at the Fire and obviously have a ton of books that I have already purchased in epub or pdf and then converted to epub. I use calibre to convert books. Can I use that to covert them to a format usable by the Fire?

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by kellyh

I currently use a Sony reader which uses epub documents. I am looking at the Fire and obviously have a ton of books that I have already purchased in epub or pdf and then converted to epub. I use calibre to convert books. Can I use that to covert them to a format usable by the Fire?

Yes. If you want to use the Kindle Reader that comes with the Fire, convert your ePubs to MOBI. The alternative is to add an ePub Reading app to the Fire as discussed above.

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by kellyh

I currently use a Sony reader which uses epub documents. I am looking at the Fire and obviously have a ton of books that I have already purchased in epub or pdf and then converted to epub. I use calibre to convert books. Can I use that to covert them to a format usable by the Fire?

I am a Sony & Kindle user. There are many options for apps which will read EPUB's (including ones that have DRM) that you can sideload to the Fire. Of the apps that others have mentioned, I use Aldiko. Also the Sony and Kobo bookstores have Android apps that you can sideload, which makes it very convenient to access your past purchases. Lastly, I also use calibre to convert non-DRM'ed ebooks from EPUB to MOBI. In summary you have many options. The hard part is deciding which alternative reading app that you like best. Hope that helps!

[Blossom]

Mantano is the best epub reader. As SCION once said it's near perfect. It reads ADE epubs and Nook epubs. It's the only one I have installed now
I know I can just load library books onto it through ADE. It has collections that the Kindle reader lacks and so many more features.

Mantano is working on a sync feature too just like the Kindle has.

[sirmaru]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Mantano is the best epub reader. As SCION once said it's near perfect. It reads ADE epubs and Nook epubs. It's the only one I have installed now
I know I can just load library books onto it through ADE. It has collections that the Kindle reader lacks and so many more features.

Mantano is working on a sync feature too just like the Kindle has.

My Public Library just has one place a book into the cart, click on the Kindle version, transfers one to Amazon and click on renting it as a Library book.

Overdrive or other software is not required. It loads directly into any Kindle device. However, one only has 21 days to read it.

The problem with library ebooks is that most of the historical and biographical ebooks I like to read are not available at my library since they are probably too controversial. The few which are available have waiting lists of up to 5 other people. They only have 1 or 2 copies available for eRental.

Thus, I pay for most of my ebooks other than the very few I rent from the Amazon Library for Prime customers.

I also have a Sony eReader for the very rare ebooks which Amazon may not carry. There is no need to convert from Sony to Amazon format or back if one owns both types of eReaders.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by sirmaru

My Public Library just has one place a book into the cart, click on the Kindle version, transfers one to Amazon and click on renting it as a Library book.

Overdrive or other software is not required. It loads directly into any Kindle device. However, one only has 21 days to read it.

The problem with library ebooks is that most of the historical and biographical ebooks I like to read are not available at my library since they are probably too controversial. The few which are available have waiting lists of up to 5 other people. They only have 1 or 2 copies available for eRental.

Thus, I pay for most of my ebooks other than the very few I rent from the Amazon Library for Prime customers.

I also have a Sony eReader for the very rare ebooks which Amazon may not carry. There is no need to convert from Sony to Amazon format or back if one owns both types of eReaders.

I do sometimes checkout Kindle books if that is the only format available beside PDF but I prefer ADE library books because I can organize them better and know how many days are left and I can return them early with a click in ADE.

I have no need to to have a epub eInk reader as I can read my epubs on my Fire with Mantano. Though I wouldn't turn a T1 down if someone was to give me one.

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I do sometimes checkout Kindle books if that is the only format available beside PDF but I prefer ADE library books because I can organize them better and know how many days are left and I can return them early with a click in ADE.

I have no need to to have a epub eInk reader as I can read my epubs on my Fire with Mantano. Though I wouldn't turn a T1 down if someone was to give me one.

That's a good idea, Blossom. In my case, the majority of my library is EPUBs to use with my Sony eink readers. I like to use the Fire for night-time reading. A sideloaded app like Aldiko or Mantano gives me the flexibility to quickly read those EPUBs on my Fire without needing to deal with conversions to Mobi. Also I like some of the extra features of these alternative apps compared to the standard Kindle reading app. It's great to have so many options!