Content Connecting to a Kindle Reader?

gael33 · 08-03-2023, 10:26 AM

My late wife has ebooks on her Kindle Fire which I would like to transfer onto my Kindle reader... How do I do that? The reason for doing the transfer is that I want to give my granddaughter my late wife's Kindle but before I do I want to remove the books that I would like.

thanks, gael.

Sirtel · 08-03-2023, 10:42 AM

Can't pull them off directly from the Fire, they'd be unreadable. Did your wife have an eink Kindle as well? Did you share her Amazon account? If not, do you have access to your wife's account?

Quoth · 08-03-2023, 11:13 AM

A Fire was only called a Kindle Fire for short while. It's Amazon's version of an Android tablet and simply has an app like the Android Kindle App pre-installed. An old one is practically junk and you can't copy the Kindle ebooks off to anything else.

An eink Kindle on an account allows downloading to PC (Linux, Mac, Windows) from that account and then there are ways to read the ebooks, or you can deregister your kindle (if a real eink one) and register to your Wife's account and download.

Other possibilities exist. But a Kindle Fire isn't a Kindle and you can't reuse the kindle files off it on anything else.

gael33 · 08-04-2023, 05:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Can't pull them off directly from the Fire, they'd be unreadable. Did your wife have an eink Kindle as well? Did you share her Amazon account? If not, do you have access to your wife's account?

I really don't know about the different types of Kindle, all I know is that when it starts it says Kindle Fire. It's quite an old model and so I guess it's the model that is incompatible with the newer Kindles'.
Thanks for your reply as it is very helpful.

gael.

gael33 · 08-04-2023, 06:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quoth

A Fire was only called a Kindle Fire for short while. It's Amazon's version of an Android tablet and simply has an app like the Android Kindle App pre-installed. An old one is practically junk and you can't copy the Kindle ebooks off to anything else.

An eink Kindle on an account allows downloading to PC (Linux, Mac, Windows) from that account and then there are ways to read the ebooks, or you can deregister your kindle (if a real eink one) and register to your Wife's account and download.

Other possibilities exist. But a Kindle Fire isn't a Kindle and you can't reuse the kindle files off it on anything else.

Thanks for the information. I stopped her account after she died, so that route isn't available. Both her Kindle and mine are quite old and so I guess that compatibility issues would be a problem.
Thanks again for your help.

gael.

Quoth · 08-04-2023, 08:05 AM

Even two new kindles the same model can't read each others ebooks bought from Amazon due to DRM. Even on same account. You have to separately download or connect.

Sirtel · 08-04-2023, 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gael33

Thanks for the information. I stopped her account after she died, so that route isn't available. Both her Kindle and mine are quite old and so I guess that compatibility issues would be a problem.
Thanks again for your help.

gael.

If the account is closed and your wife only had the Fire, there's no way to get the books off it. It's not about compatibility, it's about DRM.

Deskisamess · 08-04-2023, 10:02 AM

It's not a compatibility issue, it's an account issue. Kindle books belong to the account with which they were purchased. You'd need access to that account, and a Kindle or Kindle app registered to that account in order to be able to download them.

jhowell · 08-04-2023, 01:23 PM

Some publishers choose to make their books available without DRM. It should be possible to recover any of those books from a Fire tablet.

I suggest installing calibre and connecting the tablet and see whether any books can be imported from it.

08-03-2023, 10:26 AM	#1
gael33 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2023 Device: Amazon Kindle Fire	Connecting to a Kindle Reader? My late wife has ebooks on her Kindle Fire which I would like to transfer onto my Kindle reader... How do I do that? The reason for doing the transfer is that I want to give my granddaughter my late wife's Kindle but before I do I want to remove the books that I would like. thanks, gael.

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08-03-2023, 10:42 AM	#2
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,147 Karma: 224760044 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	Can't pull them off directly from the Fire, they'd be unreadable. Did your wife have an eink Kindle as well? Did you share her Amazon account? If not, do you have access to your wife's account?

08-03-2023, 11:13 AM	#3
Quoth the rook, bossing Never. Posts: 11,166 Karma: 85874891 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper11	A Fire was only called a Kindle Fire for short while. It's Amazon's version of an Android tablet and simply has an app like the Android Kindle App pre-installed. An old one is practically junk and you can't copy the Kindle ebooks off to anything else. An eink Kindle on an account allows downloading to PC (Linux, Mac, Windows) from that account and then there are ways to read the ebooks, or you can deregister your kindle (if a real eink one) and register to your Wife's account and download. Other possibilities exist. But a Kindle Fire isn't a Kindle and you can't reuse the kindle files off it on anything else.

08-04-2023, 08:05 AM	#6
Quoth the rook, bossing Never. Posts: 11,166 Karma: 85874891 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper11	Even two new kindles the same model can't read each others ebooks bought from Amazon due to DRM. Even on same account. You have to separately download or connect.

08-04-2023, 10:02 AM	#8
Deskisamess Wizard Posts: 2,609 Karma: 42697471 Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Ohio Device: iPhone 7+, iPad mini, 2021 iPad Pro 12.9",Paperwhite 6.8"	It's not a compatibility issue, it's an account issue. Kindle books belong to the account with which they were purchased. You'd need access to that account, and a Kindle or Kindle app registered to that account in order to be able to download them.

08-04-2023, 01:23 PM	#9
jhowell Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,498 Karma: 84420419 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Tampa Bay, Florida Device: Kindles	Some publishers choose to make their books available without DRM. It should be possible to recover any of those books from a Fire tablet. I suggest installing calibre and connecting the tablet and see whether any books can be imported from it.

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