![]() So anyone who sent MOBI files to their Kindle using the Send to Kindle service will eventually need to resend them in a different, compatible format.Īmong those compatible formats, suddenly, is EPUB, so you can now send EPUB files to your Kindle for the first time using your Send to Kindle email address. “Any MOBI files already in your Kindle library will not be affected by this change.”Īccording to Amazon, MOBI is an older file format and it doesn’t support new Kindle features for documents. azw) files to your library,” an Amazon email to Kindle users notes. “Starting August 2022, you’ll no longer be able to send MOBI (.mobi. They have an easy-to-use interface for uploading epub files to the cloud.I wasn’t aware that Amazon was transitioning away from the MOBI format on its Kindle eBook readers, but now it’s making another change too: it will finally allow customers to send EPUB content to their Kindles too. Works great on ios, Kindles, androids, Windows. Even though I have never bought an ebook from the Google Play store, their Play Books app is phenomenal and is the best share-across-devices-and-platforms solution. That's the primary way you share Kindle ebooks across devices.įinally, a personal recommendation. Perhaps you should log in to the Kindle Personal Documents service via computer, go to "Manage your content and devices", for show, select Docs, select the file and click the Actions button and then choose Deliver from the popup. I am unclear what you mean by sharing function. I realize that you probably obtained the ebook file legally. Besides being possibly illegal, it also will be technically hard to do. Your question is seeking to break through the Kindle app's DRM. But for reading third party stuff on your kindle app, you should be using the Send-to-Kindle function to get into the cloud, then go to the website and choose the device you want to deliver it to. It would look beautiful!įrom a practical point of view, I sometimes read purchased ebooks from Amazon on my ipad app. If you're buying from a third party (Smashwords?) you should have gotten an epub version and just emailed it and opened it in ibooks. Ibooks is a best-of-class ebook reading software and certainly the best ebook reading app on ios. The rule of thumb is to try to use whichever ebook reader is native to the device. Most of my ebooks just look horrible on the kindle for ios. (by comparison, It's a breeze to format for Kindle on android or the Kindle devices). As an ebook publisher and formatter, I spend a huge amount of my time trying to make the ebook look less-than-crappy on the Kindle app for ios. The Kindle app for ios is a truly wretched app for rendering ebooks. ![]() Amazon wants to make it impossible for you to have direct access to the ios file system. Maybe (hopefully) Calibre lets you add files to the ipad. You can use itunes to add a file into the IOS app (using the "File Sharing" function in itunes connect the device, select the device -> Summary -> Apps -> (scroll down and select Kindle app and then choose Add file). (They even make it rather hard - though not impossible to send files directly to the device app without using the cloud). Amazon went to significant trouble to make it practically impossible to extract a kindle file out of the Kindle app for ios.
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