9 Answers2025-07-06
Your archived items are also archived on your old device (even if you deleted them from your downloaded books list to make room). Now that you have a device with more storage, you might want to re-download some of these archived books. Make sure you’re viewing your library as ‘All’ or ‘Cloud’ and not just ‘Downloaded’. I discovered that I have a complete history of all my purchases over the last years, and can even re-download books I’ve purchased on sale years ago (I found three such books from 2017 that I had purchased but never read). Transferring to a new device became a fun library excavation.
9 Answers2025-07-05
I’ve explored this exact question. Everand (formerly Scribd) doesn’t natively support direct transfers to Kindle due to DRM protections, but there’s a workaround. You can download Everand books as EPUBs via their offline feature, then use free tools like Calibre to convert them to Kindle-friendly formats like MOBI or AZW3.
Keep in mind this might violate Everand’s terms, so proceed cautiously. For legal alternatives, consider Kindle Unlimited or purchasing books directly from Amazon. Everand’s strength lies in its vast subscription library, while Kindle excels in seamless device integration. If you’re tech-savvy, the conversion route exists, but it’s not officially endorsed.
6 Answers2025-07-04
I use my Kobo as the final destination for my permanent collection of books, such as classics, favorites and reference books. Casual reads that I got through Kindle Unlimited get read on the Kindle app on my phone or on my old Kindle. As a lot of time and hassle would be spent transferring these to my Kobo, they remain in my permanent collection.
3 Answers2025-07-08
After years of trying to make all of my reading more unified, I have come to the realization that I have become a “horses for courses” kind of reader. My Kindle Paperwhite is the perfect device for long-form, text-heavy books that I get from Libby or Amazon. My old iPad Mini is my dedicated “library device” for Hoopla comics, magazines, and audiobooks. Because my iPad is a smaller device, it is perfect for casual browsing of my library’s collection. The physical difference between my Kindle and my iPad serves as a very real mental cue for how I want to use each device. In some ways, the limitation of each platform has helped me to be more creative in how I read.
11 Answers2025-07-25
I have found many people to misunderstand this function because Kindle books are not simple files that one can email to themselves. Kindle books are protected by Digital Rights Management and are meant to be read within Amazon’s eco-system. Therefore, to download books previously purchased, one simply registers a new device to their Amazon account and all of their prior purchases will download. I find it is like having a Netflix account. One does not transfer a movie from one TV to another. Instead, one simply logs into Netflix on the new TV. This also applies to books that have been borrowed from Prime Reading or from Kindle Unlimited. Those books will only download if one currently has an active membership.
11 Answers2025-07-13
Yes, if the cover art is embedded in the book properly in your Calibre library, then yes it should show up when you email the book off to yourself. The ‘Polish’ feature in Calibre does a great job of making sure that all of the book’s metadata, including the cover, gets embedded into the book file for you. When you convert a book or send off a book, all of that book’s metadata travels with it, including the cover. If you see a generic cover when you receive the book, the problem is most likely with the book’s metadata in the source file, not with the process of emailing the book off to yourself. Use the metadata editor in Calibre to fetch the proper cover from the web before sending off the book.
8 Answers2025-11-08
A. Kobo friends and family gift cards, as well as the occasional books on sale in Kobo's store, have apparently seduced some of our Kindle enthusiasts into investigating the superior displays as well as store and content integration of the eReaders. Transfering eBooks to Kindle there are a few steps involved, which, I'll admit, at first glance may look a bit daunting to some. But don't let that scare you off, once you've gone through the simple process of transferring your first book, you'll know how to be a digital librarian eBook worrier in no time. The eBooks are first downloaded from your Kobo Library to your PC. Next, the eBook is opened in Adobe Digital Editions to authenticate it for removal of eBook DRM (Digital Rights Management). That eBook is then added to Calibre and removed of eBook DRM using your DeDRM tools and then the eBook is converted to the appropriate format for your Kindle. Yes, the process of transferring eBooks does involve updating your software from time to time as eBook DRM methods change from time to time.
12 Answers2025-08-13
As someone who always looks at things from an accessibility perspective, my concern is that someone who is vision impaired and reads Amazon-exclusive titles on their Kindle with the specific fonts they prefer could be prohibited from having access to that content because it is tied to a family member’s email account. While the Household feature is a good first step, the process of adding others to a Household is unclear and can be confusing for non-tech-savvy individuals. Amazon should develop an easier, more disability-friendly way to grant access to content to caregivers and dependents in those situations. As it stands now, the all-or-nothing Household model does not appear to have been designed with these types of scenarios in mind. It is designed for and works best for the typical, tech-savvy, two-adult Household. Real life is messier than that.
9 Answers2025-07-29
It’s a complex space, but what’s most fascinating is the fragmentation. There are a number of apps that lend e-books, including Libby, Hoopla, CloudLibrary, and Axis 360. The e-book collections, lending terms, and device support vary widely among them. I remain skeptical that there will be sufficient pressure to standardize or that libraries will ultimately consolidate to a single platform, given the models that are driving them today. In the meantime, we’re all amateur librarians, deciding which apps to use on which devices in a search for a single way to read our books on our preferred screens. It’s a first-world problem, perhaps, but it’s still a problem.
3 Answers2025-08-09
Most of my novels get transferred to my Kindle from my Mac on a weekly basis. The most straightforward way to do this is via USB. You just connect the Kindle to your Mac, open up the Kindle’s ‘Documents’ folder, and dump your novels in there. If a novel is a non-MOBI PDF or some other format, I use Calibre to convert it to MOBI in a flash. Calibre is free and very easy to use – just add your novel, choose your output format, and export it to your Kindle.
Emailing your Kindle is another great way to wirelessly send novels. All of your Kindles are listed on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Click on the email address associated with each Kindle and attach the novel you want to send to it. Type “convert” in the subject line of the email if you are sending a novel that is not already in MOBI or PDF format. There is also a “Send to Kindle” app available for Macs that allows you to drag and drop the novels you want to send to your Kindle and the app will automatically convert them for you.
I use Dropbox too. When I’m reading a book on my iPad and I get a chance to sit at my Mac, I upload the file to my Dropbox account, open the book on my Mac, and share it with my Kindle from the ‘Share’ menu. This method is really cool if you have multiple devices. Make sure the book is in the correct format for your Kindle before you send it though.