Please, if I have any of this wrongs, then someone please correct me. Thus the secret, which Amazon don't document for you, seems to be that you have to put the books into the books folder, I guess that is what calibre does.Īnd in conclusion - you can download your azw3 books from your cloud storage & read them on kindle but only if you ensure they go directly into the books folder, or manually move them there after downloading I have them downloaded them but this time, using ES file explorer I move them from my default download folder into the books folder on the kindle Fire. so I delete those & redo step 1, leading to step 1.ģ.

Thus I'm thinking what's the difference, what does calibre do that i did not do manualky. This time: All OK - they show up in 'books' & are readable. I delete those, connect via USB instead, send same 4 books from calibre. the android OS does not know what to do with the format.Ģ. the result is as I recalled from previous testing, I get 4 downloaded files that I can't 'open with' kindle reader because it won't play. I download them to kindle fire tablet, from the library copy that i have in dropbox. So I picked out 4 books that are already in azw3 in my calibre library &ġ. decide I'd have to get stuck in & re-test. so I read lots of threads - got even more confused. #4 cybmole 10-18-2014, 09:39 AMupdate - I realised that I was hopelessly confused on this issue. mobi files, but also that the mobi format does not support all of the epub-like functionality that azw includes, so calibre: epub -> mobi -> kindle or calibre: azw3 -> mobi -> kindle could lose some formatting ? I read that is is relatively easy to sideload. general non-drm epub, withouth downgrading to mobi format de DRMd epub purchase, converted by calibre to AZW3 Or maybe I have to manually lose the '3' - a dummies guide for this would be good, covering how to sideload from PC / from cloud storage. its probably looking for some field or code that identifies is as a genuine book-from-amazon. The obvious route of epub -> azw3 in calibre then send to device, never worked when i tested it.

Maybe it accepts some books, some of the time, but if so, I cannot figure out the criteria, #3 cybmole 10-18-2014, 06:44 AMthe same limitation is there when I move azw via usb, either manually or with calibre, or via dropbox my kindle fire does not accept them as books

Azw3 to mobi