Transfer ALL Purchased Books to Kindle?

HeatherA · 03-25-2014, 02:08 PM

Is there a way to transfer ALL of my purchased Kindle books to my Kindle without having to do it one at a time? MYK is a pain and I'm hoping there's an easy way to do this as I have over 600 to transfer.

eschwartz · 03-25-2014, 03:20 PM

On MYK you would have to do one at a time, but from your Kindle you can just tap each book in your Cloud view, and add each one to be downloaded. One tap per book, it's quite easy.

The new MYK that was up for a while had an option to check books and do bulk actions on them, but they took it down -- presumably at some point they will re-update MYK to the new finalized version...

You could also keep your Amazon books in calibre (DeDRMed), which makes them easy to transfer.

pidgeon92 · 03-25-2014, 03:23 PM

I don't think anyone has ever come up with a solution to this. I think the reason that Amazon doesn't allow it is because indexing that many books at one time can cause issues with the Kindle. I'd never do it, personally, it can take days to index that many books, and it will kill the battery life until the indexing is complete, making the Kindle practically unusable during that time.

Myself, I keep all of my ebooks in Calibre, and they are all DRM free. This makes it easy for me to add as many books to my Kindle as I wish. I still only do a few at a time, batching a dozen or so at a time doesn't cause as many problems as moving hundreds of ebooks at once.

HeatherA · 03-25-2014, 03:28 PM

So my ultimate goal is to get them all into my Calibre library... but don't they have to be on a Kindle first? Is there a way to get them all into Calibre without using a device as the middle man?

HarryT · 03-25-2014, 03:33 PM

Easiest way is to use Kindle for PC. Download to K4PC, and copy from there to Calibre. You are presumably acquainted with our good friend Alf?

HeatherA · 03-25-2014, 03:35 PM

I have Kindle for Mac, so once I download to there I can import into Calibre? That's good to know. I was assuming I'd need to use an outside device. I just learned of Alf the other day... have his blog up in another tab for future reading.

HarryT · 03-25-2014, 03:50 PM

Yes, Kindle for Mac works just as well for this.

03-25-2014, 02:08 PM	#1
HeatherA Enthusiast Posts: 25 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2013 Device: Kindle Keyboard/Kindle PPW	Transfer ALL Purchased Books to Kindle? Is there a way to transfer ALL of my purchased Kindle books to my Kindle without having to do it one at a time? MYK is a pain and I'm hoping there's an easy way to do this as I have over 600 to transfer.

03-25-2014, 03:35 PM	#6
HeatherA Enthusiast Posts: 25 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2013 Device: Kindle Keyboard/Kindle PPW	I have Kindle for Mac, so once I download to there I can import into Calibre? That's good to know. I was assuming I'd need to use an outside device. I just learned of Alf the other day... have his blog up in another tab for future reading. Last edited by HeatherA; 03-25-2014 at 03:37 PM.

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03-25-2014, 03:20 PM	#2
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	On MYK you would have to do one at a time, but from your Kindle you can just tap each book in your Cloud view, and add each one to be downloaded. One tap per book, it's quite easy. The new MYK that was up for a while had an option to check books and do bulk actions on them, but they took it down -- presumably at some point they will re-update MYK to the new finalized version... You could also keep your Amazon books in calibre (DeDRMed), which makes them easy to transfer.

03-25-2014, 03:23 PM	#3
pidgeon92 Wizard Posts: 3,144 Karma: 8426142 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Chicago, IL Device: Kindle PW2, Kindle Voyage, Kindle DXG, Boox M90, Kobo Aura HD	I don't think anyone has ever come up with a solution to this. I think the reason that Amazon doesn't allow it is because indexing that many books at one time can cause issues with the Kindle. I'd never do it, personally, it can take days to index that many books, and it will kill the battery life until the indexing is complete, making the Kindle practically unusable during that time. Myself, I keep all of my ebooks in Calibre, and they are all DRM free. This makes it easy for me to add as many books to my Kindle as I wish. I still only do a few at a time, batching a dozen or so at a time doesn't cause as many problems as moving hundreds of ebooks at once.

03-25-2014, 03:28 PM	#4
HeatherA Enthusiast Posts: 25 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2013 Device: Kindle Keyboard/Kindle PPW	So my ultimate goal is to get them all into my Calibre library... but don't they have to be on a Kindle first? Is there a way to get them all into Calibre without using a device as the middle man?

03-25-2014, 03:33 PM	#5
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Easiest way is to use Kindle for PC. Download to K4PC, and copy from there to Calibre. You are presumably acquainted with our good friend Alf?

03-25-2014, 03:50 PM	#7
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Yes, Kindle for Mac works just as well for this.

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