When you find an article you want to read then all you have to do is hit the Enter key and navigate the zoom pane that appears to highlight the body of the article (instead of the ads, sidebars, and such). Navigate on your Kindle to Menu –> Experimental –> Web Browser and then punch in the address of a site you want to read articles on. The first method requires no outside effort. You can both browse the web and read web-based articles from your Kindle and, from the comfort of your computer, send articles wirelessly and neatly converted to your Kindle. Reading books on the Kindle is great but there’s no need to limit yourself. You can read all about configuring the media server here. Calibre, the awesome ebook management application we promoted earlier in this guide to help with book conversions, also has a sweet media server built in that will help you link your Kindle (or other ebook reader) to your ebook library wherever you may roam. Never find yourself settled into a lounge chair at your favorite resort only to discover you forgot to copy the books over from your computer to your Kindle. The Kindle’s 4GB storage capacity is more than enough to hold thousands of books but if you’re a dedicated bibliophile you never want to be without your books, right? Access Your Ebook Collection Anywhere in the World
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Check out our guide to finding free books across the web here.
Although the Kindle Store has a large free and discounted books section (if you haven’t checked it out yet and you’re a Kindle owner, you really should) there are many other places to find free books online-and you won’t even have to hoist the Jolly Roger to get them.Ĭatalogs of public works, book giveaways, and more all contribute to the pool of free books available. This tip isn’t Kindle-specific, but it’s worth mentioning here. When we ran it through our collection it shaved the size by 40+% without any noticeable loss in quality. Even if you’re not a Manga fan, Mangle is an awesome application for optimizing your Kindle screensavers. You can check out our guide to using the application here. The match seemed like such a perfect fit that one Manga fan even created a program called Mangle to help Manga (and comic book) fans optimize their collections for reading on the Kindle. Many Manga fans notice, for instance, that the Kindle is roughly the size of a Manga trade paperback and that the grayscale screen is a great match for the grayscale of Manga artwork. Perhaps your problem isn’t that you want to convert one book format to another book format but that you want to read picture-based literature on your Kindle. Formatting Manga for Crisp and Easy Reading on Your Kindle If you’re curious which formats are the best for conversion, they lay it out in their extensive FAQ here. You can easily swap out the ePUB part for MOBI and convert to your heart’s content for your Kindle.
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We’ve shown you before how to convert PDF to ePUB and how to convert Word docs to ePUB using Calibre. PDF files aren’t usually formatted for ebook readers (the margins are huge, the fonts don’t scale, etc.) so even though you can load them on your Kindle you’ll likely want to convert them.įortunately Calibre, a third party and open source ebook manager, is amazingly robust and perfect for managing an ebook library of any size and with practically any device. The Kindle, as of firmware 2.3, also supports PDF files. The Kindle can natively handle the following file types: MOBI, PRC, TXT, and TPZ. If you have ebooks that you have purchased from other sources like PDF, ePUB, LIT, or other formats you likely want to read them on your Kindle.
When you buy books on or from your Kindle they arrive neatly formatted and ready to rock on your Kindle. Format Non-Kindle Store Books for the Kindle If you’d prefer to custom without the work of cropping and scaling your own images make sure to check out some of the online Kindle wallpaper depots like this Kindle wallpaper Tumblr and KindleScreensavers, as well as searching Google for Kindle-friendly images like so. Creating your own screensaver images is easy we detail how in our guide. You can follow our guide to jailbreaking your Kindle here (and keep up on the world of Kindle jailbreaking here for the latest and greatest hacks). On my Kindle, for example, I replaced the default screensaver with a large collection of pinup paintings by American pinup artist Gil Elvgren (pack available here) and on my wife’s Kindle I replaced it with a collection of Wonder Woman art (pack available here). Jailbreaking your Kindle doesn’t give you quite the range of tools and abilities that jailbreaking an iPhone does but it’s still a pretty neat trick to really customize your Kindle to fit your personality. Jailbreak Your Kindle for Custom Screensavers