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?

Is Calibre mostly used to escape DRM?

I use it mostly to convert EPUB files to MOBI.

same here. Thing is Calibre alone can't strip DRM. You have to do something to strip DRM from books and THEN use Calibre.

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.

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.

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.

ita,

not necessarily. I use calibre for legit purposes. In fact, a few years back when I had to do some dodgy shit for ebooks I had purchased outside of amazon, but wanted to put it on the kindle (personal use, not sharing with anyone, not doing any bullshit), I'm not sure I even used calibre as part of that process.

Well, the easiest thing (as it turns out) is to go to the Amazon website and download an app called "Send to Kindle". Have done that and sent the book to my Kindle.

Why couldn't the customer service people - even the experts - tell me that?