Imagine being able to buy most any books in the Kindle store or others without worrying about DRM! To Amazon’s credit, it’s like Kobo and doesn’t make DRM compulsory. Either no DRM or watermarking would be better. Needless to say, it will be helpful to convey your own anti-DRM sentiments to authors, publishers, and literary agents. Or you can just try Send to Kindle once ePub conversion is in place. On Amazon, look for “Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited.”Įnlarged, here’s the file-related information in the Kobo listing for a recent thriller of mine:Īs for existing books you own, you can try calling them up in Calibre or another multi-format app to see if DRM would get in the way. Meanwhile people can check book listings in the Amazon and Kobo stores and elsewhere to see- before buying-if they have DRM. So that bodes well for the anti-DRM movement when users find they can’t suddenly transfer the books to Kindles or other devices without fuss. The longer ebooks are around, the more people have invested in DRM-tainted ebooks (thousands of dollars in some cases). Could the anti-DRM movement take advantage of this customer confusion? Let’s remind ebookers that DRM, not format, may now be the sole obstacle to enjoyment of their previous purchases on many different devices. If you wish to use the new format on your device, convert to azw3 instead of mobi.” But it might work for you.Skimming news reports, some optimists may think they’ll soon be able to send their existing Kobo, Apple, or Nook books to Kindles since those other brands use ePub.īut DRM in many cases will still get in the way-even with Amazon’s Send to Kindle feature being able as of late 2022 to convert ePub to a Kindle format. If you really want to have the best of both worlds (storage in kindle cloud and azw3), you could try to convert to mobi with the mobi output settings in calibre to “both” or “new” which should create a mobi file that can be sent to the cloud and is as good as an azw3, but calibre warns “various kindle devices have trouble displaying the new or both mobi filetypes. I’ve never used azw, but as it’s an older format much like mobi, I think it’ll lose quality too. You can e-mail azw and mobi formats, but in my experience you lose quality when converting epub to mobi, sometimes a lot. But as far as I know, you can’t e-mail azw3 files to a kindle account. The azw3 may not always look completely identical to the epub, but it will be a good imitation.Į-mailing to your kindle account has the advantage that the book is safely stored in your kindle cloud. Works perfectly on my kindles (basic kindle & kindle paperwhite). I add my Dutch e-books, which are sold as epub without DRM, to calibre, convert them to azw3, and sideload (through a USB cable) the azw3 to my kindle with calibre. It’s just less hassle that, way, in my opinion.ĭo you have a preferred method for sending Epub ebooks to your Kindle account? Let us know in the comments! The reason I have never used calibre’s email feature is that I keep a copy of my ebook files in both Kindle and Epub, and I send the Kindle file to my Kindle account whenever I want to upload an ebook to my Kindle account. I have never used that feature, though, so I can’t tell you how well it works. This tool can even email your documents directly to your Kindle account. The ebook library tool calibre is fully capable of converting your ebook to and from Kindle, Epub, and other ebook formats. If that happens then your next best option will be to use calibre to convert the ebook so you can send it to your Kindle account. This means that Amazon will reject more complex Epub files if they are made of too many parts.
#Amazon convert epub to kindle zip file
I’ve tried it, and I found that Amazon will accept the ZIP file only if you have fewer than 25 files in the ZIP file. Yes, that does work – to a limited degree. Send a ZIP Fileįor example, eReader Palace brings our attention to the fact that you can send a ZIP file to your Kindle account. In other words, you can rename the Epub file by giving it a ZIP suffix and then email the ZIP file to your Kindle account. If your answer to that question is no then there are other options. Con: Do you really want to trust your ebook to a site you don’t know?.This site will let you upload an Epub file and provide your email address, after which it will convert the ebook into a Kindle format and send the ebook to your Kindle account. Your first option is to use a website like Send Epub to Kindle.
#Amazon convert epub to kindle free
Amazon offers a free conversion service where you can send documents to your Kindle, but there is a problem: it doesn’t work with Epub files.Įven though there are services you can use to automatically send DRM-free files to your Kindle account from Dropbox and other cloud services, Amazon still won’t let you send an Epub file to your Kindle.įortunately, there are several work-arounds.