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Party_Animal
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Apologies if this is in the wrong forum. I just bought a Kindle. I've bought a cd off EBay with lots of books on. Loaded the books onto my PC, plugged in the Kindle, copied some of the books onto the Kindle. They show up on the Kindle file but when I switch on the Kindle they don't appear to be there. Can anyone advise?
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  • penrhyn
    penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
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    The books need to be in Kindle format, are they?

    PS There are loads of free Kindle books on the Amazon site.
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  • Hippychick
    Hippychick Posts: 738 Forumite
    Download calibre (free software) organise your books and convert them to mobi format, send to device using the software.

    They should appear.

    http://calibre-ebook.com/


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  • penrhyn
    penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
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    Beat me to it, cheers!!
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  • Party_Animal
    Party_Animal Posts: 1,657 Forumite
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    penrhyn wrote: »
    The books need to be in Kindle format, are they?

    Theye are supposed to be ready to read, no conversion needed. The seller had 100% feedback and lots of sales.
    Just looked at the files but it doesn't say what type. I've downloaded Calibre. Will try that. Thanks very much
  • S0litaire
    S0litaire Posts: 3,535 Forumite
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    Just a note but have you registered the kindle with Amazon?

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/digital/fiona/manage/ref=ya__73

    If you have wireless set up you can email the book to your kindle and amazon will convert it to a PDF for you.
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  • WhiteChristmas
    WhiteChristmas Posts: 650 Forumite
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    Incidentally, what you bought from eBay was probably either a collection of out-of-copyright stuff which you could have downloaded free of charge from Project Gutenburg, or (if it is current stuff) an illegal collection of DRM-stripped files.

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  • Party_Animal
    Party_Animal Posts: 1,657 Forumite
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    Hippychick wrote: »
    Download calibre (free software) organise your books and convert them to mobi format, send to device using the software.

    They should appear.

    http://calibre-ebook.com/

    Thanks, got this now. Tried dragging and dropping files into Calibre but it won't work. The only way I seem to be able to do it is one by one.
    Thanks
  • Party_Animal
    Party_Animal Posts: 1,657 Forumite
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    S0litaire wrote: »
    Just a note but have you registered the kindle with Amazon?

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/digital/fiona/manage/ref=ya__73

    If you have wireless set up you can email the book to your kindle and amazon will convert it to a PDF for you.
    thanks registered with Amazon but the Virgin router doesn't recognise the Kindle
  • penrhyn
    penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
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    I suspect you mean the Kindle can't see your Virgin router?

    Remember passcodes are usually case sensitive.
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  • Party_Animal
    Party_Animal Posts: 1,657 Forumite
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    Either way round. It isn't asking for a passcode.
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