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Hello everyone.
A few weeks ago I posted a reply on a Forum in which someone was asking about how to convert Kindle files to other formats. My initial reply has gotten so much feedback, in the form of private messages, that I have decided to post my ideas, around the topic, in a more visible and easy to find place.
Before we get started I need to make two disclaimers.
First of all I want to be a little careful, since part of what you have to do is strip the DRM from the books, which is something that the Apple Vis admins might not like us talking about in too much detail. With this in mind, I am going to say the same thing I said in my reply; if you would like more info on this subject you can private message me and we can talk about it that way.
The other disclaimer is that the process I am about to outline consist of several steps, and therefore is mildly complicated.
You might ask what the point of converting Kindle books is, if the process is somewhat involved; Let me explain. I am in my last semester of college and I have accessed a fair portion of my books by buying them on kindle and then reading them on my mac. I personally believe that if we, as blind people, can pay to access our books, like everyone els does, then we should. I do enjoy services like bard and book share, but I have moved to Kindle for most of my text books, because I have not appreciated getting books for free while watching my classmates spend thousands of dollars on their required texts.
There is, however, one major draw back to moving to Kindle for text books. Thanks to Kindle’s amazingly inaccessible desktop app, there is no way of reading Kindle books, on your mac, without stripping away their DRM. I wish this was not the case, and the moment Kindle comes out with an accessible mac app my DRM removing days will be over. As it currently stands though, I am not about to pull out my phone during class and use it to read along when we are covering material in the text book. The need to read on my mac is what made it necessary to figure out the process I am about to explain. If you too want to read Kindle books outside of the IOS app I hope you find my thoughts useful.
Step 1. First things first, setting up the mac kindle app.
This is actually pretty strait forward, but its finicky because the app is totally inaccessible. All the app really wants is for you to enter your amazon email address and password, so it can sink with your account.
Upon first opening the app the keyboard focus should land in the email address field, so simply type your address in. After doing this, hit tab, which should take you to the password field. When you type in your password, hit enter, and you should be ready to go. Remember that when doing this you will get no feedback what so ever. If you don’t think it has worked right you might try closing the app and starting over.
After your logged into your account there is not really anything els you have to do with the app, although I do believe it needs to be open for the next step.
Step 2. downloading books to the app.
As far as I can tell, your books won’t download to the app automatically, but this is not a big deal, sense you can send them to the app through the Amazon web site. Navigate to the site with your browser of choice and click on the link that says your amazon dot com. Instead of the word “your” it should say your username, so in my case it says, Tree’s amazon dot com.
After clicking on this link click on the link that says “manage your content and devices”. This is the page you want for sending the desired books to your mac kindle app. The interface of this page is not ideal and a little hard to figure out, so if you have trouble with it I can try and walk you through the exact process. In a nutshell what you want to do is,
select a book,
select the deliver option.
Choose where you want the book to be delivered, your mac.
Of course if the mac app was accessible you could do this step without going to the amazon web site, but its not. so thats that.
Step 3 locating the books in the finder.
I explain this step in order to be thorough, but the DRM remover tool, that I use, does not require you to find the kindle books in the finder . As stated above, to find out more about this tool simply send me a private message.
The location of the books has changed from time to time, so if the info I am about to give does not seem right simply do some google searching and you can find the answer.
First you need to show the library folder, which might be hidden by default. There are several ways to do this, but I like to just hit shift command g, to go to a folder, and then type in ~/library, and hit enter.
After you get to the library you should be able to find the amazon books in the following location. the finder Library/Containers/com. amazon.Kindle/Data/Librar y/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content.
Step 4, ripping DRM
As I already explained I am not sure if I should really go into this step. I will just say that if you google ripping DRM from kindle books, the main thing you are going to read about is an app called Caliber. This app is very inaccessible, and it is pretty much impossible to use it, trust me I have tried. There are alternative options out there though.
I hoped this has made sense and can help people; remember you can private message me if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Can I read Kindle books on multiple devices? For instance, I bought an book on Amazon, can my family read my kindle books with another android or ios device too? Can I share my kindle with friends?
If you also wonder to know whether we can read kindle books on other devices, this post may be just what you are searching for.
And as reading kindle books on one kindle device is very easy, with your own amazon account is ok, so here I will not prefer how to read kindle books on kindle. I will intruduce you 2 ways to read kindle books on multiple devices. Select appropriate resolution please.
Method 1: Install free kindle reading app
This way is suitable for you if you want to read kindle books on other tablets or smart phones. Such as, read kindle books on iPad, iPod, iPhone, Nexus 7, Nook tablet, Kobo Arc, etc.
And this is also a feasible solution to read kindle books on pc / mac, make sure you can read kindle books on computer.
Step1: Go to Amazon's official site, and select the free kindle reading apps for your device.
Step 2: Register your Kindle app with amazon account.
Step 3: Buy and download books you like. After books downloaded, you can read them on your devices.
Method 2: Make your Kindle books convertable
If you want to read kindle books on other eReaders, such as Kobo glo, Sony eReader, Nook Simple Touch, etc, for you can't install apps on e-ink readers, so we must make our books convertable and transferable to Kindle.
And, even if your device is tablet or smart phone, instead of method 1 I will also strongly recommend you try this way. Because after you make your books convertable, you can:
- -There is no limitation to Kindle, we still can open our Kindle books without Kindle app.
- -We can choose another good apps to read kindle files, such as iBooks on iPad, Play Books on android.
- -We don't have to tie our Kindle books to amazon account any more.
- -No matter where the books were purchased from, they can enjoy the same reading app on our devices, they become brothers and sisters at this large family.
- -And more...
Here are steps for you about how to make kindle books convertable. At first let me tell you the reason why we have to convert kindle books.
- Kindle books are with DRM protection
- Kindle books are with Kindle format, not common epub or pdf
The DRM problem is one of the obstacles that prevent us reading kindle books on any other devices. And , as you know, non-Kindle devices, such as Kobo, Nook, iPad, and so on, their common ebook formats are EPUB and PDF. So we need a tool to help us strip drm from kindle and convert kindle to pdf or epub. You can search the Internet to find a good tool, here I write my suggestion Epubor Ultimate.
1Get Ultimate Converter on PC
2Sync Kindle books to computer via Kindle for PC/Mac
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Sync books from your Kindle library to your computer with Kindle for PC/Mac
How To Read Kindle Books On Mac
3Remove drm from Kindle books with Ultimate Converter
Open your Kindle app to sync your purchased and downloaded books. Then run the tool ultimate. You will see your kindle ebooks are listed out below the kindle icon. Select books you want to read on other devices, then drag them to the right area.
Then after books added, you will see a change as a magic. All the drm are decrypted fast.
4Convert kindle books to other devices
Set the common epub or pdf as your output format please. So choose the right format and then click on 'Convert to XXX' button to start the conversion. When the conversion has been finished, you will see 'Succeeded' at the end of the book title.
4Transfer kindle books to multiple devices
Click on'Folder' icon at the bottom right, you will get all the converted books from the pop-up window. The left is to transfer them to your devices with USB cable, choose a reading app you like, open to read.
As your books have been convertable, you can transfer them to any tablet, eReaders, computers, share them with anybody.
Nothing is more exciting than this, yes?
Further reading
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More detailed guide about reading kindle books on more devices. Prefer to this list below.
Kindle Books On Amazon
| Read Kindle Book on Multiple Devices | |
|---|---|
| read kindle on other kindle | read kindle books on iPad Pro |
| read kindle books on android | read kindle books on Nexus 7 |
| read kindle books on nook | read kindle books on mac |
| read kindle books on blackberry | read kindle books on win8 |
Can You Read Kindle Books On Macbook Pro
Ada Wang works for Epubor and writes articles for a collection of blogs such as ebookconverter.blogspot.com.