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I always upload books to the Kindle via wifi. You email the .mobi version to youremail@kindle.com, within a minute you will get a verify email, where you have t

I always upload books to the Kindle via wifi. You email the .mobi version to youremail@kindle.com, within a minute you will get a verify email, where you have to click the link, then the file gets pushed to your kindle. I'm too lazy to deal with wires and stuff.

charleshan 4y ago
I used to do this but I realized how difficult it is to organize your books this way. Calibre → Kindle was a much better workflow in my experience.
innocenat 4y ago
MOBI is so outdated and lack many newer features on Kindle. So much so that Amazon is discontinuing sending mobi via email later this year.
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- beret4breakfast 4y ago
  Wait what? Is that just mobi? Or can other files be used. My USB port broke years ago so I soldered on a qi charger and now just send books over WiFi.
  - innocenat 4y ago
    They support sending EPUB now.
  - stunt 4y ago
    You can still use other formats on your Kindle. That restriction is for publishing new books on Amazon store. If you want to publish a new book on Amazon, you have to use EPUB instead of MOBI. That's the only change afaik.
    - innocenat 4y ago
      No, this applied to Send to Kindle service too. Announced a few days ago. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G5WYD9SAF7PGXRNA https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
- stunt 4y ago
  What are some of those missing new features when you use MOBI?
  - innocenat 4y ago
    1. Can't choose custom fonts 2. Can't configure boldness Maybe a few thing more, but these two are what put me off of using MOBI. (I believe there's a hack for jailbroken kindle to fix this)
- cassepipe 4y ago
  That's too bad, the usb is broken on my old kindle, the experimental browser in it is too old to use to connect to the Calibre server feature and the only option I had left was sending mobi by mail. (It does not read epub) Can you think of any other solution ?
  - goosedragons 4y ago
    You'll be able to email Epub instead. You can already do it now actually if you send it as a ".zip" or ".PNG" but they reject ".Epub" outright. But they recently updated a support article saying send to Kindle will support Epub soon. Amazon converts it using their tools to their format that's right for the device.
    - cassepipe 4y ago
      Wait, do all Kindle models support epub reading ?
      - goosedragons 4y ago
        No none of them do. When you email an Epub file Amazon converts it using KindleGen to whatever your device supports.
        cassepipe 4y ago
        Oh I did not know that thanks
    - GekkePrutser 4y ago
      Yeah the PNG trick works great. So great I don't understand they never made it official before
GekkePrutser 4y ago
You can also email epubs this way. You just have to rename them as .PNG because Amazon doesn't allow epubs. But if you trick it as PNG it forgets about this and converts it just fine. Of course you can also convert with calibre but this method works well too. Edit: oh apparently they support epub officially now. They didn't for a long time and the above workaround was great for years

charleshan 4y ago

I used to do this but I realized how difficult it is to organize your books this way. Calibre → Kindle was a much better workflow in my experience.

innocenat 4y ago

MOBI is so outdated and lack many newer features on Kindle. So much so that Amazon is discontinuing sending mobi via email later this year.

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beret4breakfast 4y ago
Wait what? Is that just mobi? Or can other files be used. My USB port broke years ago so I soldered on a qi charger and now just send books over WiFi.
- innocenat 4y ago
  They support sending EPUB now.
- stunt 4y ago
  You can still use other formats on your Kindle. That restriction is for publishing new books on Amazon store. If you want to publish a new book on Amazon, you have to use EPUB instead of MOBI. That's the only change afaik.
  - innocenat 4y ago
    No, this applied to Send to Kindle service too. Announced a few days ago. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G5WYD9SAF7PGXRNA https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
stunt 4y ago
What are some of those missing new features when you use MOBI?
- innocenat 4y ago
  1. Can't choose custom fonts 2. Can't configure boldness Maybe a few thing more, but these two are what put me off of using MOBI. (I believe there's a hack for jailbroken kindle to fix this)
cassepipe 4y ago
That's too bad, the usb is broken on my old kindle, the experimental browser in it is too old to use to connect to the Calibre server feature and the only option I had left was sending mobi by mail. (It does not read epub) Can you think of any other solution ?
- goosedragons 4y ago
  You'll be able to email Epub instead. You can already do it now actually if you send it as a ".zip" or ".PNG" but they reject ".Epub" outright. But they recently updated a support article saying send to Kindle will support Epub soon. Amazon converts it using their tools to their format that's right for the device.
  - cassepipe 4y ago
    Wait, do all Kindle models support epub reading ?
    - goosedragons 4y ago
      No none of them do. When you email an Epub file Amazon converts it using KindleGen to whatever your device supports.
      - cassepipe 4y ago
        Oh I did not know that thanks
  - GekkePrutser 4y ago
    Yeah the PNG trick works great. So great I don't understand they never made it official before

GekkePrutser 4y ago

You can also email epubs this way. You just have to rename them as .PNG because Amazon doesn't allow epubs. But if you trick it as PNG it forgets about this and converts it just fine. Of course you can also convert with calibre but this method works well too. Edit: oh apparently they support epub officially now. They didn't for a long time and the above workaround was great for years