![]() ![]() Next, Right-click on the book you want to convert, then choose Download from the menu. With the correct versions of Epubor Ultimate and Kindle installed on the computer, open the Kindle app and sign in with your Amazon account. Kindle app on PC and Mac (Image credit: Future) However, due to copyright, don't plan to share these PDFs with others since it's not legal. Yes, if you plan on using the file for yourself. Whether you should convert your AZW files to PDF is open to debate. Luckily, you can convert these files into PDF format, so they're readable in other locations. Unfortunately, this limitation means you can't open these books anywhere else since they are saved in Amazon's proprietary AZW file format. However, because of Digital Rights Management (DRM), you can only open Kindle eBooks on Amazon Kindle hardware or through official Kindle apps such as ones for iPad. Many kindle books even allow lending, which lets you send it to a friend for 2 weeks and then the file comes back to you when the two weeks expire or they return it."Īs we first noted, "due to copyright, don't plan to share these PDFs with others since it's not legal."Īmazon continues to be the leader in eBooks thanks to its popular Kindle devices and apps. It keeps track of my progress and syncs my library. I can start a book on my phone, then finish it on my desktop. I have kindle on my kindle paper white, cell phone, desktop, laptop, and iPad. I know this first hand because I use this feature all the time. With the free kindle apps and the cloud system there is zero reason why books can’t be synced across multiple devices. Those dinosaur days of kindle 1.0 are over and have been for a decade. ![]() With other PDF documents, you’ll just need to hope that the text is sufficiently big that you can read it on the small Fire screen."There is no ethical reason why someone would need to convert a kindle book to a pdf. In this case, it’s smarter to go ahead and buy the Kindle book version for $7.99. Too small, in fact, to be able to comfortably read, even if you zoom in (because the text doesn’t reflow). However, as you can see, the text is pretty darn small. Our PDF file is “Life_of_Pi_(2001).pdf”, so I’ll simply tap it to read the book: Instead you need to tap on “Docs”, which will reveal all the PDF files you have on the Kindle Fire: Tap on “Books”, however, and you won’t find the new PDF. Now on the Kindle you’ll see the usual set of options and icons: Choose “Eject” by right clicking on the KINDLE and you’ll promptly be told it’s safe for you to remove the device: To do that I double click on the folder, then simply drag the PDF icon onto the folder: Turns out that the folders are just for your convenience, as far as I can tell, so since the PDF I’ll be copying onto the device is a book, I’m going to copy it into the “Books” folder. With that in place, plugging in the Kindle produces the expected Windows prompt:Īs highlighted, you’ll want to just select “Open folder to view files”, which will produce a set of folders that might be quite a bit more than you’re expecting: To get started, I have a PDF version of the book Life of Pi on my Windows 7 desktop and have installed the drivers necessary for the Kindle to show up as a device on my Win7 laptop. Worse, there’s no way to scale or reflow the PDF content to make it read more easily on the screen. ![]() The Amazon Kindle does have the ability to let you read PDF files, with some limitations, but the problem is that it’s a bit hard to figure out because even if you think that the PDF file you’re copying is an ebook, it’s not considered to be a Book for the system. ![]()
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