Kindle has been a big disappointment. Fortunately I can read iBooks on my Apple products (they too are often locked up) and text and PDF and audio books and other formats on any computer. The free Calibre software can read books in Kindle format and even convert them to other formats. Download Kindle for macOS 10.10 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. The Kindle app gives users the ability to read eBooks on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You may also read your book on your phone, tablet and Kindle e-Reader, and Amazon Whispersync will automatically sync your most recent page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights, so you can pick up right wh. Calm’s content can be accessed through an Amazon Kindle or Fire tablet’s mobile browser at Navigate to this page and sign in to your Calm account to access your subscription. The Calm app is not currently available for download from the Amazon app store. At this time, the Calm app is only available. You can drag your ebook files directly into the Device folder and the specific documents folder if one is required for your device OR you can copy and paste the file onto the device by right clicking (or ctrl-clicking if you’re using a mac) on the file and selecting “Copy” or “Copy file”, going into the Kindle’s Documents folder. A new volume, called Kindle, will appear on your Mac. You can open it up and see the files inside. The key folders inside the Kindle volume are audible, documents, and music.
Recently there are many people asked me can I read Kindle books on Mac and how to. It is really a little a waste of time to answer these questions one by one (of course it's also my honor to read them), so today I write this article in details for you about how to read Kindle books on Mac by 3 different ways. For reading Kindle books on PC, there are also three methods to read Kindle books on PC.
Aug 06, 2020 The Kindle Fire is a product similar to the iPad which was released by Amazon in 2011. The Kindle Fire not only allows you to download and read books, but you can also use it to listen to music, browse the web, or watch movies. There are a variety of ways to download books to a Kindle Fire. If you'd to know how to do it, just follow these steps.
Method 1: Read Kindle Books with Kindle for Mac app
You don't need a Kindle device to read Kindle books. Here is a free app from amazon store that you can use on your Mac. Access to Amazon.com to get free Kindle for Mac app. Then download and install it on the Mac.
The Kindle books you bought from Amazon will appear in Kindle for Mac because of its sync function. Choose one and right click it. Then you can choose the option to read from the appeared menu.
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This is the easiest way to read Kindle books on mac. But every coin has two sides. It also makes our eBook reading a little disappointed because we can only read Kindle on Kindle apps but not in iBooks. This is because these books are only bonded with Amazon Kindle store. It's forbidden to transfer downloaded books to Kindle for mac app with iTunes but only Send to Kindle. What's worse, the app can't read ePub books purchased from another eBooks stores.
So Method 2 or Method 3 may become your best choice.
Method 2: Read Kindle Books on Mac with iBooks
EPUB is one of the most common ebook formats (the other one is PDF) and Most e-readers support including Mac computer. Though there are many ePub readers we can use on the mac, but here I strongly recommend you use iBooks app to read ePub books as it is definitely the best reading app on the mac.
1Transfer Kindle Books to Your Mac
With Kindle for Mac, you can see all Kindle books you bought. Right click the book and choose the download option. Then the book will be downloaded to your local folder.
Tips: Click 'Kindle' and Choose 'Preferences'. From the general window, you can see 'Content Folder' and the letters below is the address of your Kindle books stored. Find the books you downloaded in 'My Kindle Content' folder of your mac.
Except for the above way you also can use USB cable to collect your Kindle device with mac and transfer your books.
2Download & Install Epubor Ultimate on Mac
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Most Kindle eBooks are protected with Kindle DRM. Kindle books has their own formats such as AZW3, AZW, Mobi, PRC, but not the common ePub format. Epubor Ultimate is the best DRM Removal + eBook Converter. Epubor Ultimate can also help us edit eBook metadata if we want. Just with this one tool you can also read Kindle books on iPad Pro, and read Kindle books on android.
3Decrypt & Convert Kindle Books
Open Epubor Ultimate, you can drag and drop Kindle books in it. After your Kindle books added, it will automatically remove the DRM from your selected Kindle eBooks. Then just choose the output format as ePub and click 'Convert to ePub' button. Wait for a moment and you can get the fresh ePub books from the pop-up window.
The best point of Epubor Ultimate is it can automatically identify books of devices or apps if you have opened Kindle for Mac app or your Kindle device has collected with your mac. You will see your kindle eBooks are listed in the left area after you get the Epubor Ultimate started. Select the books you want to convert to, then drag them from the left to the right area. You can also click '+Add' to load them.
4Read Converted Books in iBoooks
You can find your converted epub books at the output folder. Then right click, select 'open with iBooks', you will see your eBooks clearly listed in the library.
It also has another way to add books. Open your iBooks app, drag and drop the books you want to add. In the library, you can see them and right click the book to choose read option.
Method 3: Read Kindle Books on Mac with Adobe Digital Editions
1Transfer Kindle Books to Your Mac
This is a necessary step for you to transfer Kindle books to your mac. But how to achieve it. So here is the method.
2Decrypt & Convert Kindle Books to ePub
If we want to read books with Adobe Digital Editions, we must convert their formats to ePub. Learn the details of how to decrypt & convert Kindle books to ePub. After you do that, you can continue the next steps.
3Download & Install Adobe Digital Editions for Mac
You can check official Adobe to download it.
4Add Kindle Books to Adobe Digital Editions
Open Adobe Digital Editions for mac app. Drag and drop the converted books to Adobe Digital Editions. Right click the book and select the read option.
I hope this article has resolved your problems, and wish you have a nice reading on your mac. Or if you have other methods it will be nice of you to leave a comment.
Jonny Greenwood joined Epubor since 2011, loves everything about eBooks and eReaders. He seeks the methods to read eBooks more freely and wants to share all he has got with you.
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iBooks is designed by Apple, and it is a free App for iPhone and iPad. Both a way to read books and a way to buy them, iBooks transforms the simple act of reading into something simply delightful. With this powerful App, you can download or purchase many of your favorite books from the included iBookstore.
As we all know, Amazon Kindle is a great gadget for enjoying Movies, running apps, playing games, listening to music, reading books and more, especially the Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire is a 7-inch tablet that links seamlessly with Amazon's impressive collection of digital music, video, magazine, and book services in one easy-to-use package.
We often encounter this situation - 'How can I read iBooks on my Kindle?' We know the iBooks can open PDF and ePub format for reading. And Kindle friendly format is MOBI, AZW or TXT. So to read iBooks on Kindle, we must convert iBooks to Kindle format. Compared with AZW and text, mobi could be the better choice for Kindle. You are able to convert iBooks EPUB to Kindle with free apps - Calibre. And additionally, MOBI format could be read on other eReaders like Mobipocket.
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Step 1: To import iBooks files to Kindle, you need to transfer these iBooks to Mac computer. Please refer to How to Copy iBook Files from iPad to Mac.
Step 2:Calibre is a free, yet reliable app. Go to calibre.com, according to your OS to choose Calibre for Windows or Calibre for Mac to start downloading. Then install and launch it.
On the main interface, click the 'Add books' button on the very left top to import EPUB books you need to convert. You can add more than one ePub books to start conversion.
Step 3: Choose the right format for Kindle, go to Kindle eBook Format to learn more. Here we recommend you select 'MOBI' as an output format. As shown in the following graph, this free ePub to Kindle converter provides various output formats.
If you don't want to change the output option, just click 'OK' button to return to the main screen. On the top toolbar, head to the third button 'Convert books', then click it to start converting iBook files to Kindle.
OK, after the conversion, you can easily Transfer MOBI Files to Kindle for reading without limitation. On the contrary, if you have got many MOBI eBooks from Amazon book store, it is possible to convert these MOBI books to ePub format for reading with iPad, iPod touch or iPhone. MOBI to ePub for Mac is the right tool to complete this task.
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