There are also versions available for osx, linux, and every version of windows since xp sp3. Mailing ebooks enables, for example, sending personal documents to the amazon kindle family of ereaders and tablet computers. Select a book or multiple books and then rightclick the selected ebooks. Highlighted passages made while reading the kindle anywhere can be transferred, without the need for emailing and downloading, by simply cutting and pasting on the pc. The software is crossplatform which means, its available for windows, macos, and linux. Drag and drop the kindle azw book to add to calibre and remove drm from kindle azw books. Once your kindle is recognized by calibre, youll see a new on device column next to the book title column. Connect your kindle to your computer using a usb cable. The calibre support youre talking about is kindle driver. The bug in amazons software is that when you put a mobi file on a kindle. Calibre stylised calibre is a crossplatform opensource suite of ebook software. In addition to that, you can easily sync it with other devices.
You can create digital libraries, manage your existing device, modify the metadata and much more. Epub, calibre will be able to help you change it into something kindle friendly. But if youve previously added books to calibre that with drm, youd better import them again. Calibre is free to download, and the latest version for windows is 1. Kindle producing azw files that no program can read browsed through this forum for answers. The program will scan its contents and create a file with metadata this will allow you to control what ebooks from your library are on the device.
Note that this only detects kfx books and allows you to delete them calibre cannot read or convert kfx format, even for books that are sold without drm. Fix failure to get published date from audible book pages. If your kindle books are downloaded via kindle desktop app, import your downloaded kindle books to calibre, then the drm will be removed automatically. Latest kindle for pc no longer uses calibrecompatible azw. Kindle producing azw files that no program can read. How to sync nonamazon ebooks across multiple kindles and apps. Calibre is an opensource software that lets you manage your ebook reader. I transferred some books to my kindle using calibre and they did not show up. Calibre is a program to manage your ebook collection. Its a program thats hard to love, because its a crossplatform open. It has a cornucopia of features including library management, ebook conversion, syncing with devices, news download, ebook viewing etc. If you plan manage your entire ebook library using calibre, we recommend you use a dropbox or icloud drive folder to store your calibre library.