If you didn’t know, Amazon gives you a Kindle email id. Once Kindle is mounted as an external storage device, just copy paste the converted book. Just connect your Kindle to your computer via USB. There are several ways you can transfer the MOBI or AZW3 file to Kindle. Step 2: Transfer converted eBook to Kindle

Once you do that, go to the place where you had defined Calibre library (default location is Home/Calibre Library). Here, I imported a bunch of eBooks in Calibre: Import the PDF file (In the menu, use Add Books option). Ubuntu and other Ubuntu based Linux distributions such as Linux Mint, elementary OS etc can use the command below to install it: sudo apt-get install calibre We’ll see how to use it to convert PDF to MOBI and AZW3 format.Ĭalibre is available in the official repositories of all Linux distributions.

We have already seen how to create an eBook in Linux with Calibre. Calibre is an open source, cross-platform application for managing eBooks. We will be using the best tool to manage eBooks, Calibre. Let’s see how to convert PDF to Kindle ready format. You can still read it on Kindle, but it won’t be the same experience, same beautiful typeset, properly spaced and the ability to select words and highlight them. I mean, if you have PDF that was scanned from an old book, there is no way it can be displayed in native Kindle way.You can still read it on Kindle, but it won’t be the same experience, same beautiful typeset, properly spaced and the ability to select words and highlight them. The display also depends upon the way PDF was ‘coded’ in the first place. This way, the books will be displayed in native Kindle format and they won’t look out of place. However, it is advisable to convert the PDF to MOBI or other format preferred by Kindle. If you have a PDF book, you can still read it on Kindle. Transferring non-Kindle books to Kindle is fairly easy.Ī few things to keep in mind here. You can always buy books from Amazon but you might also have your own collection of books that you might want to read on your Kindle.įor example, if you downloaded free Linux books and you want to read it on Kindle, you can easily do that. I’ll discuss them in detail so that it can help you better. Few things you might already be doing, few things you might not. In this article, I am simply sharing my experiences to using Kindle to its full potential, with Linux.

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