![]() ![]() ![]() Subscribers get access to an exclusive podcast, members-only stories, and a special community. If you appreciate articles like this one, support us by becoming a Six Colors subscriber. I don’t love it, but I use it, and I’d be sad if I didn’t have it around. Whether you bought something on Kindle that you’d like to have on iBooks or downloaded an epub and wish you could load it on a Kindle, Calibre is the tool for the job. Piracy is bad, people, and authors deserve to get paid-but if I buy a book, I’m going to feel free to load it on any device I wish. I maintain a DRM-free backup of most of my Kindle books, so if I ever want to abandon the platform altogether, the books I bought will come with me to wherever is next. Federico Viticci’s Club MacStories offers long articles in epub format as well.Īlso, if you’re not a fan of DRM on ebooks, you might be interested to know that there’s a plug-in for Calibre that lets you remove the DRM from books and then convert them to other formats. ![]() When I get the voter packet for the Hugo Awards every year, it tends to include some epub versions of nominated novels. I was able to convert those files and upload them to Amazon, and then download them and read them at my leisure. For example, the hardcover of Lois McMaster Bujold’s book Cryoburn comes with a CD full of epub versions of past novels in the series. To open the book in the Finder, right-click on the book in the Library and choose Open Containing Folder.Īt this point, I open Amazon’s Send to Kindle app, which lets me add files to any of my registered Kindles and store them in Amazon’s cloud library for future access. Once that wheel stops spinning, your book has been converted. (From this window, you can also apply changes to the book’s settings-for example, you can force text to be aligned left rather than justified, and the Kindle will honor this choice!)Ĭalibre will begin converting the book, and you’ll see a spinning circle in the bottom-right corner of the window next to the “Jobs” label. Converting is a multi-step process: First select the book in the Calibre library window, then click on the Convert Books item in the app’s toolbar, choose a new output format from the pop-up menu in the top right corner (I choose MOBI), and click OK. You can add a book to the Calibre library by dragging it in. Instead, I use it to convert books into different formats. While Calibre fancies itself a sort of iTunes for ebooks, I don’t use it as a catalog. It’s a program that’s hard to love, because it’s a cross-platform open-source project and it really shows in the interface. So when I get an epub book I’d like to read, I need to convert that book before I can load it on my Kindle.įor this (and many other ebook related tasks), I use the free tool Calibre. Instead, Kindle supports the Mobipocket format and its Kindle-specific AZW successors. I like reading books on my Kindle, but one of the drawbacks of the Kindle platform is that it doesn’t support the epub book format. Note: This story has not been updated for several years. If you’re interested in an e-reader that supports EPUB files, there are several options like the Kobo Libra 2.Calibre: How I put epub books on my Kindle Kind owners can, of course, check out books from a library that works with a third-party app like Libby, which connected them to, naturally, the Amazon store where they gain temporary access to the Kindle-format ebook,ĭon't get too excited about the simple EPUB format access, since the rollout doesn't arrive until later this year. Kindle owners, on the other hand, were essentially locked out from grabbing a free book from Google or directly from a public library. You weren’t beholden to a single store or resource. You can only buy Kindle formatted ebooks on Amazon’s store whereas the competitors offer a greater deal of flexibility.Īn EPUB file worked just as well on a Sony reader or a Barnes & Noble reader. While a step in the right direction for readers, it’s unknown just how far Amazon is willing to go to support EPUB files. It wasn’t the most arduous task, but now that process will be less cumbersome. From there, you send it to your Send to Kindle email address and upload it to the Kindle device. From there, you upload the ebook and convert it into a MOBI file. What you had to do was to download a third-party ebook converter like Calibre or Convertio. Prior to this, it was certainly possible to read EPUB files on the Kindle, but the process was a little convoluted. you will end up with an epub with an acceptable ToC to clean up the ToC you can click edit book -> select table of contents and. select the book and click convert books button. The EPUB format launched back in 2007 and was quickly picked up by e-reader companies like Kobo, Sony, and Barnes & Noble. Now you can click the add books button go to your download folder go all the way in to the tutorial folder and select index.html calibre will create a book in zip format. This format shuffle will put Kindle on the same level as other e-readers. ![]()
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