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Sunday 28 August 2016

Adding books from own library to Kindle

Scenario was that books existed on own PC in .mobi format, but away from home so couldn't connect to PC via USB.

After faffing about with the idea of using a USB stick (no joy), a thought occurred. And worked. This was the process.

  1. Upload the .mobi books from the computer to a folder on Google Drive (this could be done with Chrome Remote Desktop, or from the USB stick itself)
  2. Set up an Amazon Kindle email address (see https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/email - this requires accessing Amazon account to set up the address)
  3. From Google Drive (probably Dropbox works too), email the .mobi files to the Kindle email address
  4. Connect the Kindle to wifi
  5. Books download onto Kindle
Neat!