Get this: in April I "won" a Librarything Early Reviewers edition of an ebook. I couldn't figure out how to upload it to my Kindle Fire because you get everything wirelessly and it didn't come with it's own usb cord.

So I did what I do with other non-mobi docs: I emailed it to my kindle and with "convert" in the subject line and that worked.

Well, this month I got another ebook. Tried the same thing and guess what? No go.

Amazon has very frustratingly changed their policy and you cannot have email them mobi docs so that you can get them on your Kindle Fire.

I just spent a frustrating time on Amazon customer service where the CS person kept on typing a list of file types the the Kindle will accept rather than telling me anything.

And then I lost the internet and phoned in and they offered me a $10.00 coupon.

Still irritated.

Want to read my book!

I found the usb cord for the old black and white kindle.

Now, if I can find that kindle, charge it up, I can dl the book to that and then sync my new kindle and I can read it on the new kindle.

you cannot email mobi docs to your kindle?

really?

You can't!

It's stupid.

And when I was asked if customer service helped me wih my problem, I said no and told them it was stupid that you can't email mobi files to your kindle.

I've found my old kindle so I'm charging it up.

Does the Kindle Fire not use the same type of cord as the regular kindle? It should be the same, a micro-USB cord.

I really really loathe the walled garden of the Kindle. Argh.

No, I tried my old kindle's cord and it won't fit.

The usb cord the kindle fire comes with is just a power cord - not a usb with adapter for electric outlets.

I really really loathe the walled garden of the Kindle

Someone was telling me that Amazon didn't do that anymore, and that the Nook and the Kindle were about equal in terms of sideloading--he even gave the Kindle the edge in ease of use, because you could email all the popular formats as well as drag and drop using the cable.

Since I don't have a Kindle I didn't pursue it, but his experience didn't sound like your guyses (whoa, that looks really horrific written out. Bad ita ! Bad, bad ita !)

That doesn't seem to match with what I'm reading. What generation was your original kindle? As far as I can tell, most of the previous e-Ink kindles had micro-USB cords, which the Kindle Fire is also supposed to have. You can transfer books over to the kindle directly, or use something like Calibre, following these directions: [link] (you wouldn't need to do the first few conversion steps, since your document is already a MOBI file).

You might also be able to just e-mail the document to yourself as an e-mail attachment, and download it the same way you would download any attachment to your fire. I don't know if that would work or not, but it might. Basically, there's no need to convert MOBI files to Kindle fires, because they basically already are Kindle fires. So you might be able to simply open it.

right. On my ipad, I actually go to dropbox, get the mobi file and then I can "open it" in the kindle app. If you put the file in dropbox or box, can you use your fire to go to the file (like in a web browser) and then open it?