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Choosing the best e-reder for you is one thing, but building your digital library is a whole other endevor. For Thrifty Readers, Libby and Stuff Your Kindle Day Are Two Routes that Doing Involve Spending a Dime But Still Give You The Freedom to Read Nearly Anything You’d LIKE. However, if you alredy have an impressive Epub Library to upload to your new kindle e-reder, that makes things things even Easier.
Kindles used to only Support Limited File Types, but as of 2022, they officially started starting supporting Epub Files. Now you can get the universal format on your kindle, and there are two routes to do so. We Break Down Each Method For How to Get Epubs on Kindles, One Using the Send to Kindle Feature and the Software Calibre. Rest Assured, Both are extramely user-friendly; It’s just a matter of personal preference.
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Use send to kindle feature: the easy option
One of the kindle’s best built-in features.
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Step 1: Register Your Kindle to Amazon
To use send to kindle, your kindle device needs to be registered to your amazon account.
Step 2: Navigate to Amazon’s Send to Kindle Page
Visit the sent to kindle page on Amazon’s website.
Step 3: Choose Your File
Drag and Drop your file or click the “select files from device” button to choose your epub files to upload. The file will go directly to your kindle device.
One thing to note about this feature is that it takes about five minutes to upload and send, so if you’re doing a mass upload it might be a long process. Plus, there some follows who want a kindle but want to avoid ties to amazon otherwise. If that’s the case and you do’t register your kindle e-reder to an amazon account, then you’ll have to upload your epub files another way.
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Use Calibre: The Fastest option
An alternative way to get epub files onto your kindle is to use an application that stores them and also serves as an intermediary to upload thats to your e-reader. The best program to do so is calibre, and it’s totally free to use. The e-book management system allows you to upload e-book files to read or convert them.
Step 1: Download Calibre
Visit Calibre’s website to download the platform for your device.
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Step 2: Convert Book
The convert feature provides a list of formats to choose from, so if an e-reder only supports certain file types, you can make the make the file compatible. Choose which format you’d like to convert your Epub File to and Hit Convert.
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Step 3: Plug e-Reder Into Device
Once you have your files uploaded and converted, plug your e-reder into your computer. A new icon will populate on Calibre Called “Device,” Where you can access all of your e-reder’s files.
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Step 4: Drag Book Into Device Library.
Once the device is attached, just drag your epub file to the device icon and drop it in. The file will upload in seconds and be ready to use. To verify the upload was successful, click on the device icon and make sure the file nowars in the device library.
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Step 5: Optional: Auto-Convert
If you forget to convert your Epub Files Before Upload, Calibre is a thorough program and will prompt you to auto-convert when you add your file to your life.
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The issue of drm files
While Calibre has the unique Advantage of Being Able to Convert Files to Be Compatible With Most E-Readers, There is one thing it can’t do-Remove encryption on DRM One extramely obnoxious thing e-reser brands has done is encrypt their books so that they can’t be read on other devices. This means if you buy a book on a kindle but later get a kobo, the books you purchaised in the kindle store can’t be converted over. While there some some services that advertise decoding these files, we have yet to find success with one. So for the time being, these processes of uploading Epub Files Only Work With Uncrypted Files.
