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Kindle is generally biased to Amazon books. Being an Amazon product itself, the books you can read are mostly limited to those you can buy from this website. You would have to download books in .amz or .mobi formats. This can be a pain, especially if you want to just read free e-books from the web, which are typically saved in the .pdf format, the most universally accepted format for e-books. The best solution is to convert PDF to Kindle formats. Below are 2 easy ways for converting PDF to Kindle format, one is with PDFelement Pro.
Download Kindle books via Kindle for PC/MAC. Please download your kindle books via. How you can convert Kindle to PDF using Kindle Converter. To begin with, download and install Kindle for PC app on your computer. If you are using Mac, choose the mac download option on the download page. After you complete the Kindle Converter installation, you need to import the target Kindle book to the program.
You might not know that Kindle also supports EPUB format, which is more popular. So we recommend you to convert PDF to EPUB with the powerful yet ease PDFelement Pro. This software can edit and customize your PDF file before you send it to your Kindle. It has the most versatile and convenient tools for editing and converting PDF files.
Key Features of This PDF Editor
You can try to make use of pdf4kindle.com in converting your portable document file format into the Kindle-friendly .mobi format. The good news about this site is that it does not have to be downloaded into your computer anymore. You can do everything online and the site is compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. With a good internet connection, you can upload the .pdf file into this site and then convert it to .mobi. To top it all off, the services of the site are for free. Once converted, you can download the .mobi file and then send it to your Kindle device.
Amazon developed a special email address for Kindle users to register before they use their device. Each device has a unique Send to Kindle email address. To get this unique address, simply go to the Amazon site and visit the 'Manage your Devices' section found in the 'Manage your Kindle' page. You would need to add the email account that you would send your books from in the 'Approved Personal Document Email List' so you can send it to your Kindle email address. Once added, you can then attach the file and send it to your Kindle.
If you want to do a file conversion, you would need to place the word 'Convert' in the subject line of your email. Once you do this, Amazon will convert the file you send into .mobi format for Kindle reading. If you do not wish to do a file conversion, simply send the file without regard to the subject line of the email. You can send a wide variety of files and documents to your Kindle using this method, including Microsoft Word (.DOC, .DOCX), .HTML, .RTF, .JPEG, .GIF, .PNG, .BMP, and of course, .PDF, and the Kindle-compatible .MOBI and .AMZ files.
If you already have files in the .AZW formats for Kindle reading, all you need to do is to import those files into your Kindle device. Make sure that you have the file downloaded to your computer first. This can be done by going to the 'Manage Your Content and Devices' page. Click on the device you want to download the content to, and then follow the steps.
Once you have the file downloaded, you can just connect the Kindle device to your computer via USB cable. Make sure that you copy or place the files you want to import in the 'Documents' folder. If you wish to transfer the files you have converted from .pdf files, you can just simply email them or import them if they are already in the .AZW format.
We all know that Kindle is using new KFX format into their eBooks, which causes us more difficult to remove drm and convert kfx formats. Though there is a solution that reverting the Kindle for PC/Mac to an older version, but I would say that it’s not available for Mac Catalina users and Big Sur 11.0 users!
And don’t you think that the reverting is so annoying? Kindle releases newest version of kindle app, why should I downgrade it to an older version (less features, less functions)? What’s worse, with the releasing of Kindle desktop version 1.30, Kindle forces us to update the app all the time!
This blog here I will introduce an exclusive method for you: How to convert Kindle KFX eBooks to EPUB/PDF on Mac Free (with Calibre). This is also an exclusive and effective guide on converting Kindle AZW3 to ePub PDF on Mac in 2020.
(My Environment: Calibre 4.23; DeDRM 6.8; Kindle 1.30; Mac mini M1 Big Sur)
Launch Kindle for Mac app, Kindle >> Preferences >> Deregister.
The deregistering will delete all your downloaded books from Mac. Then, register it again.
Note:
Ensure 100% successfully drm removing, use Kindle for Mac v1.30 or v1.31 please. The latest version v1.32 will cause the drm removing failure.If we could avoid the new kfx format eBooks downloading via Kindle for Mac, we will be able to convert kindle books as before, right? Here comes the solution.
Run the Terminal.app, copy&paste the following code, and enter the password.
If you don’t have password or meet error, then run this command:
As we’ve executed the command, now we just need to re-download kindle books.
Importance:
Don’t double-click to download books; Don’t open the book after the downloading completed.The command we executed in step2 is used to disable the kfx format books downloading. In this step we right-click to download book, and then we will get the old format of Kindle books. But if we double click to download, we will still get the new kfx format books. What’s worse, if we opening the book after the downloading, the latest version of kindle for mac will help us download .kcr format books to replace those books we downloaded.
In other words, if we don’t follow this, all the work we did in Step1 and Step 2 is in vain.
Preparation:
Calibre install; Calibr dedrm plugin 7.2.0 add.More details please read my previous blog on how to add plugins to calibre.
Find your downloaded Kindle books (saved under “My Kindle Content” folder) and import them to Calibre.
See? The added books are shown as AZW3 input format in calibre (it means the newly downloaded books we use command and right-clicking) are azw3 format, not KFX). Select books and click “Convert books”, select ePub or PDF as output, convert.
Job done. It’s not so difficult, right? I converted my kindle files to ePub on my Mac computer(Big Sur), you can also get a free trial of it.
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*1. Someone asks me whether this method works on Win10 computer. Yes we also can avoid the KFX downloading via Kindle for PC app with nearly the same steps, but in Step2 what you should do is running the KFX_begone3 command. Download the KFX_begone3.zip, unzip it and start the kindle.cmd.
*2. I think above method is difficult: Calibre version 4.23 (downgrade); DeDRM plugin; Non-KFX downloading, etc.. Here you can get a free trial of this Kindle Ebook Converter(no plugins required).