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What Formats Can Read Kindle Books On Ipad Support?

Anyone reading Kindle books on their iPad using different apps like the Kindle app or Libby? What works best for your library and sideloaded files?

2025-08-02 08:17:01

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Zanele Cube

I read my Kindle books on my iPad using the free Kindle app from the App Store. The app supports all of the standard Kindle book file types, including AZW and MOBI as well as PDFs which can be emailled to your Kindle “address” (ie username@kindle.com). It’s all pretty easy to set up and use, and I found that the app made a great little standalone library that I could keep separate from the rest of my e-books. Recently for example I read “Heated Tales: A compilation of steamy stories” and I was able to keep that collection of rather titillating titles separate from the main body of my library.

2026-07-22

Donovan

For reading Kindle books on the iPad, I’ve explored all the many options for doing so. Most importantly, Amazon’s Kindle reading app reads Kindle books (AZW, AZW3, KFX) with all their features like X-Ray and whipsynced-book-updating. EPUB books by others, including those purchased from the Apple Store, can be emailed to your Kindle email address and then will be automatically converted to AZW and added to your iPad Kindle app. PDFs are also supported but are static and so don’t re-size for iPad screen size for very long books.

Reading comics or graphic novels on the iPad is also great when reading them in CBZ or CBR format. Though for these types of books I prefer to use an app like Panels. For academic reading the Kindle app’s annotation tools are great with PDFs, but for most of my other non-fiction eBook reading I prefer to read them in EPUB format, as reflowable text is just so much easier to read. In addition to being able to see your reading progress and leave reviews for other books on Goodreads, within the Kindle app you can also see reviews for and track the progress of other people reading the same book as you. (Just a couple of drawbacks: books with DRM that are not published by Amazon cannot be read within the Kindle app unless you’ve gone to some trouble to work around the restrictions using something like Calibre.)

2025-08-03

Felix

I read Kindle books on my iPad too. They support loads of different file formats, so I can read Amazon Kindle books (in AZW and AZW3 format) with all their features intact, like the ability to look up words in the dictionary, and sync your books across all your devices. I also sideload lots of EPUB novels (just drag and drop them into the Kindle app on iTunes, or send them to my Kindle email address). I also read PDFs on my iPad too, but they don’t resize the text for you, so I tend to stick with EPUB for novels.

I use Chunky or Panels apps to read manga on my iPad as they support CBZ/CBR formats much better than Kindle app does. The iPad screen is excellent at displaying high quality color comics. For fan translated or indie released manga I find Kindle app’s support for MOBI to be quite handy although it is currently deprecated. The only problem with Kindle app for reading eBooks is that they are protected with DRM and thus you cannot open eBooks that were purchased from Kobo or Nook stores unless you first strip their DRM which is very painful.

2025-08-04

Naomi

Kindle Apps are incredibly versatile. For iOS devices Kindle supports reading of books in EPUB, MOBI and PDF format. While Amazon’s proprietary book formats AZW and AZW3 for the Kindle eReaders do not work on iOS, they are the best choice as they preserve formatting, highlights and notes. I often even ‘sideload’ EPUBs using the feature ‘Send to Kindle’ which converts them to a Kindle compatible format in the background. PDFs are also readable in the Kindle App but they do not reflow text like EPUB files do. For manga and other illustrated books the iPad screen is perfect and even for these types of books Kindle supports reading of formats like CBZ and CBR when using third party apps like Chunky for example. Also all highlights, underlined texts and notes etc. will be synchronized across all of your devices. This means that even if you switch from reading a book on your iPad to reading it on your iPhone for example, you will always continue reading right where you left off.

2025-08-07

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