How To Download Kindle Books To Calibre

Adding a book to your kindle is easy if you ve saved it on your pc.

How to download kindle books to calibre. The ones with a green tick are ones in the calibre library but not in kindle. Connect your kindle to your computer using a usb cable. The dedrm plugin handles books that are downloaded from kindle adobe digital editions and some historical formats. The obok plugin handles books that are downloaded from kobo desktop app. This is how you add a plugin to the calibre program.

Download drm removal plugin. Then click add books to upload them to calibre or just drag them to it. Download calibre version 4 x or earlier. Download calibre and drm removal plugin. Connect kindle to pc that has calibre on it upload the books from the kindle by going to the kindles document folder.

You will be prompted to select which device you ll read this ebook on. It will be detected and you can download ebooks from it. There is an add books on the to right clicking on which will open the explorer from where you can add books to your calibre library. If you don t have any kindle devices please install kindle for pc mac register it with your own amazon account and double click the cover of ebooks to download them to your computer. To add ebooks to calibre simply drag the ebook into the calibre window.

Then register the kindle app with your amazon account and redownload your kindle books again. So you can keep all your books in calibre library and keep selected in your kindle device. A terrific good news for loyal calibre users is last week apprentice alf released a new version of the dedrm tools with added support for kfx format so now you can easily import kfx books to calibre to remove kfx drm in order to create backups and convert them to other formats. Get to a manage my content and devices page on your computer and find the ebook you wish to download. Physically connect your kindle to the computer using calibre.

I download books from amazon to my kindle in the usual way ie wi fi or 3g. Using the action button next to it select and use the option to download and transfer via usb. Open kindle drive find kindle documents folder then just drag books there to calibre. In a second or two calibre will import the ebook and fetch related metadata book details and the cover art. This question pops up because of the drm protection amazon puts on ebooks they sell to add the files you just downloaded to your calibre library just drag and drop them to the calibre s main window sending content from your calibre library to your kindle is much easier.