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E-books and transfer of books - need help please!!
Posted: Fri 10 May 2013 8:42 am
by dippersgirl
I have a UK kindle and my sister has a Kobo bought in Germany. I read on a forum, that one can transfer books from one to another
e-book, the format needs to be changed.
My UK Kindle does not allow me to use Amazon.de. and they have only a limited selection of German books on Amazon.co.uk.
I've also got a book from another website and have done nothing with it so far.
Somebody please tell me what I must do. I have a Laptop and wifi.
Re: E-books and transfer of books - need help please!!
Posted: Fri 10 May 2013 9:21 am
by ozankoymod
If they are in another format you can download calibre e-book manager and this will do it for you!
http://calibre-ebook.com/
(books bought in Kindle store cannot be coppied)
Re: E-books and transfer of books - need help please!!
Posted: Sat 11 May 2013 4:56 pm
by dippersgirl
Thank you so much, I will download it and try it out!!
Re: E-books and transfer of books - need help please!!
Posted: Sun 12 May 2013 11:40 am
by Spud50
You need books for your Kindle to be in MOBİ format. You can convert to this format using the e-calibre software. I have a document which explains how to use the software. I can email it to you if you post your email address. You can transfer the boks from your sisters device into a file on your laptop and then transfer into Calibre and convert to mobi format before loading onto your kindle.
Re: E-books and transfer of books - need help please!!
Posted: Mon 13 May 2013 8:57 am
by Mozgor
I didn't know you could get this until my nephew offered me a copy of the CD he'd bought on EBay. Apparently you can buy CD with thousands of books on them compatible with Kindle. He copied the CD onto a flash drive for me and it works.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksi ... &_from=R40
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Moyra
Re: E-books and transfer of books - need help please!!
Posted: Mon 13 May 2013 9:50 am
by mickhm
There is a lady at Lambrusco Market every Saturday who sells kindle books on CD they are listed by author and cost 5tl each. Excellent value
Re: E-books and transfer of books - need help please!!
Posted: Tue 14 May 2013 9:39 am
by JBA
There are thousands and thousands of ebooks on sites like PirateBay (
http://thepiratebay.org/ ) Isohunt (
http://isohunt.com/ ) Torrenz (
http://www.torrentz.com/ ) etc. I 've found just about every book I've looked for, mostly by well-known authors and especially 'out of print' older books by authors I've only just discovered.
As previously mentioned, MOBI is the preferred format for Kindle but the excellent Caibre software will take care of conversions from other formats if you can't find MOBI.
Re: E-books and transfer of books - need help please!!
Posted: Tue 14 May 2013 3:33 pm
by dippersgirl
Thanks everybody!!!!!!!!! That should sort me!!
Re: E-books and transfer of books - need help please!!
Posted: Tue 14 May 2013 3:34 pm
by dippersgirl
and maybe help others!!
Re: E-books and transfer of books - need help please!!
Posted: Wed 15 May 2013 3:40 pm
by keithh1
Hi spud 50 could you send me a copy of your document
Re: E-books and transfer of books - need help please!!
Posted: Wed 15 May 2013 6:20 pm
by Spud50
İ will need your email address.
Re: E-books and transfer of books - need help please!!
Posted: Wed 15 May 2013 6:34 pm
by keithh1