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.
How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.
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sumi - Jun 03, 2012 1:46:21 pm PDT #20211 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2012 2:03:20 pm PDT #20212 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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 !)
Gris - Jun 03, 2012 2:08:31 pm PDT #20213 of 25501
Hey. New board.
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.
le nubian - Jun 03, 2012 2:13:08 pm PDT #20214 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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?
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2012 2:15:33 pm PDT #20215 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is Calibre mostly used to escape DRM?
Dana - Jun 03, 2012 2:16:54 pm PDT #20216 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I use it mostly to convert EPUB files to MOBI.
le nubian - Jun 03, 2012 2:31:23 pm PDT #20217 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
same here. Thing is Calibre alone can't strip DRM. You have to do something to strip DRM from books and THEN use Calibre.
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2012 2:32:26 pm PDT #20218 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Primarily fanfic? Maybe that's why this guy's use cases and mine were so different. In his world, Calibre was designed to evade DRM and that was its major usage, where I was mostly thinking of people loading fic.
Which I should totally do more of.
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2012 2:33:47 pm PDT #20219 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thing is Calibre alone can't strip DRM
But it's perfectly obvious that it's a step in the pirating process, right?
Well, that's what this guy was trying to convince me of--that it was an unspoken secret that everyone used it for that.
meara - Jun 03, 2012 2:52:31 pm PDT #20220 of 25501
Wellllll, I mostly use Calibre with non-DRMd books. How they GET that way is a different question.
But I've never tried to email anything to my kindle. Either I get it from the Kindle store or the library (and then they come via 3G or for the library, wifi only), or I put it in Calibre, convert if needed, and load while hooked up via cord.