Kindle- an idiots guide please.

[B00]

Does anyone know how to download books on to my new sparkly Kindle from anywhere else other than the Amazon site?

The Amazon site is great, but I think ive already snaffled all the free books from there that I want and ive since found other sites which offer different free books, but for the life of me I cant figure out how to get them onto the Kindle.

Can anyone give me a step by step guide (totally idiot proof please) on how i do it?

Thanks

[dotty.]

alot here are only a few quid B00:
http://www.whsmith.co...?cat=\Books\eb_eBooks

[~Wingnut~]

Yes! ...

Pass the kindle to mini B00 and get her to do it for you ;o)

lol only joshing with yer, I haven't the foggiest how to do it, hopefully someone here will and then you can enjoy your kindle you lucky girl :o)

[B00]

sod paying! I want free ones!

I've found a couple of sites where there's shedloads of free ones, and downloaded them to my puter, but im a bit stuck how to get them from my puter to Kindle, and I can't remember where I put the 'destructions'

[B00]

Hey Wingy, good to see you as always xxx

Yeah, she'd probably do it too!

Hope Xmas was good to you and yours hon.

[~Wingnut~]

If you have them on your computer already I wonder if you could click and drag the books to the port your kindle is plugged into?

[~Wingnut~]

Thanx, we had a lovely xmas! Hope you all did too! :o)
xx

[B00]

How do i do that Wingy?

[craft1948]

If you go to where your file is stored, click on it and go to 'File'......'Send To'...it should give you the option of the port your kindle is plugged in to....

[~Wingnut~]

If you go into 'my computer' and find the file where the books have been downloaded to, then open 'my computer' again in a seperate window so that the port that your 'kindle' is showing up on then click and drag the books to your kindle. I've never used a Kindle so it maybe that you click and drag the ebooks to a specific folder on the Kindle.

Before doing this tho I would ask in technology just to check that this won't corrupt your kindle or anything as I'd hate for that to happen cos of something I had suggested to do!! x

[~Wingnut~]

Actually, yeah Crafts way is probably easier lol :o)

[craft1948]

lol wingnut I'm guessing as I haven't got a kindle either :-)

[B00]

ok, will give that a bash later Craft and Wingy. I'd do it now but my Kindle is upstairs and the USB cable thingy is wayyyy over there >>>> and im far too lazy to go get them.

Thanks both :-)

[Jan1957]

I got a Kindle as well Boo but haven't had a chance to have a go yet. Can you let me know the other sites you found the free books on please and I will see if I can find anything in the instructions about how to transfer these over. Ta muchly.

[Prudie]

I've just been told by a techie friend that the books from other sites than Amazon are not always in the right format for Kindle (needs to be Mobi???) but you can download a free programme called Calibre that will convert them so you can put them on your kindle.
I know, that sounds complicated.

[ChuckFickens]

As craft says, just plug it in and use the send to feature to send the books to the kindle.

though as others have said they will need to be in a format the kindle knows, which to my knowledge are...

Mobi
prc
azw (the official kindle format)
PDF
TXT

They don't support the Ebook format, but as long as an Ebook is not DRM protected it can be converted to the AZW format using calibre.

[B00]

will give it a go in a bit guys, thanks all, especially Chuck xxx

Jan, the other site i was looking at is

http://manybooks.net/categories/

[saxy_jag]

Still waiting for mine, but as far as I'm aware there are very few places that offer downloads in Kindle format. The ones from places like Waterstones and W H Smith (and some libraries) are of a different format to Kindle.

[saxy_jag]

This might be of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.o...n_kindle#File_formats

[Jan1957]

Thanks for that Boo. I will also try the suggestions given here and if I find out how to transfer them will let you know. I have had a quick look and as far as I can see you can have them delivered to you by email and then email over to your Kindle. Like you I need an idiots guide at the moment.

[B00]

ive admitted defeat, ive had a fraught 20 minutes trying to suss this thing out, and can't do it :-(

Maybe I should just stick to the Amazon kindle download page- its a one click button and voila, it's downloaded, now that I get!