Thread: Kindle - - using non-Amazon books

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

Sign up for a free, one month Kindle unlimited, then cancel, then do it again. I have done it twice so far. From Thailand you will need a VPN.

Thanks, I might try that. Thing is that I also like quite old books, in German or French as well, and Kindle doesn't have many. Gutenberg does but access is limited. I recently found an old document about early German colonisation in Samoa, the why, how and to what end but couldn't read it.

Originally Posted by tomcat

...I go to Amazon...I order the books I want...I

Thanks, TC - like you I relish old things (no, my wife is younger than I am) and they're tough to find

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

It's super easy.

Yes, but this is PH, 25 years in IT . . . one would think . . .

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

Let me screenshot some later this evevning.

Thank you

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

Essentially, you use a cord to connect the cable, drop pdf or mobi files into the documents folder.

And when I do that Kindle informs me to stop charging the unit and disconnect the cable.

Originally Posted by Topper

Calibre rocks

I shall definitely try that

Originally Posted by lom

Does the cable fall out if you don't have the cord?

Svensk humor?

Originally Posted by Takeovers

I can relate. I suggest you buy a leather cover. It transformed the reading experience for me. May work for you too.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

It will take any USB 2.0 A-Male to Micro B data cable and when you plug it in to a Windows PC, will appear as a storage device.

I have a Mac . . . and when the cable is plugged in Kindle says it's charging I can't access it

Books are so much easier