Transfer Kindle books anywhere. Kindle Transfer is designed for those people who need to transfer Kindle books to another Kindle or computer. In this scenario, you can safely back up your Kindle books, or easily share them with other Kindles. If the Kindle app still isn’t working on your Mac, remember that you can always use Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader instead. Samso.tk. The Cloud Reader is the Kindle Web App and allows you to access your Amazon Kindle books from any device with a web browser including your Mac. From Kindle to Calibre to iBooks| Jan Drewniak From Kindle to Calibre to iBooks epubs and mobis and azws oh my! Let's face it, the Kindle For Mac app is horrible. It's not optimized for retina displays, and hasn't been, making it essentially useless on my retina macbook pro. Also, you cannot copy and paste from it. However, like many people, I own a kindle, and so that's what I'm stuck with. IBooks for Mac on the other hand, is a much better reading experience, and it supports copy and paste. Reolink client freezes. So today's mission is to get books from the Kindle for Mac app into iBooks through Calibre. The following workflow is not as automated as I'd like it to be, but it's good enough for now: • We locate the folder that the Kindle For Mac app uses to store downloaded books. • We use Automator to automatically copy those books into another folder.* • We setup Calibre to automatically add the books from the copied folder and convert them to ePubs. • We drag the files from Calibre into iBooks (this is the manual labour). *The reason for step 2 -- copying the books into another folder with automator -- is that Calibre deletes items from the source folder after it automatically adds them to the Calibre library. The reason for this behaviour is outlined. Step 1: Locate the Kindle Data Folder It's here: ~/Library/Containers/com.amazon.Kindle/Data/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content/ You can easily go to this folder by pressing Command+Shift+G in the Finder, then copying and pasting the above path into the textfield and pressing 'Go'. You should see a bunch of.azw and.apnx files. These are your kindle books. Step 2: Setup Automator to Automatically Copy the Kindle Books This is really easy. Some other tutorials use a third-party app for this, but automator is perfect for the job. • Open Automator. • Select ' Folder Action'. • Where it says 'Choose folder', select the folder with the Kindle books. Again, an easy way to go the this folder is Command+Shift+G • Select 'Copy Finder Items' as the folder action. You can set the destination folder to whatever and wherever you want. Mine is called 'Kindle 4 Mac Items' and is located in my Documents folder. Now, whenever you double click on a book in the Kindle for Mac app, the app downloads the book into the Kindle content folder, and Automator automatically copies the book into a different folder. Step 3: Calibre, Taming the Beast First, download. Then clean up the cruddy Calibre interface a bit. Bad Less bad Follow the steps in the gallery below to go from bad to less bad. Step 4: DeDRMing Kindle books with Calibre Now we get down to business. Download the and follow the instructions to get it installed. The plugin will automatically strip DRM from Kindle books when they are added to Calibre. Step 5: Automatically adding books into Calibre First we need to set the preferred output format in Calibre, then we need to set up the automatic adding. To set the preferred output format. From the top menu, we go to: Calibre → Preferences → Behavior And there we select EPUB as the preferred output format. Now for the automatic adding.
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