Now also for America e-Books: Amazon Kindle
Photos, play, read your own documents, download free books: how to get more out of Amazon’s e-book reader Kindle third
1. Read My Documents
In the standard method can deal only with the Kindle documents with the PDF and TXT file extensions. How well does the PDF representation is in the document differs from one document. In some circumstances it may be useful to allow the convert to PDF from Amazon. TXT files may also contain HTML commands, so you can view it with a trick, any HTML page on the Kindle: you have to file with the extension TXT provided. Difficulties with the Kindle primarily tables. Links to the web are possible – you can use to get a link list as a TXT file to build.
With a little more work there is almost nothing that can not display the Kindle. For many types of documents helps Amazon itself – namely, DOC and DOCX (Microsoft Word), text formats TXT and RTF (Wordpad) and graphics formats JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP. To do this, email the Kindle users files to be converted to his own Kindle address. It is usually name@kindle.com.
The same applies when a PDF is better adapted to the capabilities of the Kindle – in this case Amazon takes the CONVERT keyword in the subject line, otherwise you redirect the file unchanged. To speed up the upload process, you can package the files in a ZIP archive, Amazon then converts the contents of the archive.
The process is fast and convenient because the files via Whispernet go directly to the Kindle. There are, however, apply. Amazon currently charges 25 cents per megabyte or part thereof. This included one from each document individually, even small texts cost you at least 0.25 € per piece. This is because even if you have emailed a zip file: here Amazon takes the file size before zipping as the base.
If these fees are to be avoided, there is an alternative: Instead of emailing name@free.kindle.com. Amazon will convert the files and then sends you an e-mail with a download link, which you can first download the converted material to your computer before you transfer it via USB to the Kindle. A second alternative is to use Calibre to convert the program – which in a sense the “iTunes” will be for the Kindle. It is understood, inter alia, the widespread ePUB (only without copy protection), HTML, ODT (Open Office), PDB (book of older Palm PDAs), PDF, RTF (Wordpad, etc.) and TXT.
2. Free books
If the Kindle Store for the first time in Menu -> Open “Shop in Kindle Store“, the choice seems not so overwhelming. Not every publisher is happy with the alternative to the book of dead trees. But there are thousands of years of human creativity, which is also available in book form. The Gutenberg Project and Google have been working for years with making books for the general public, whose copyrights have expired.
In the Kindle Store this find, for example, when you first navigate to the best sellers and then control the top right of the entry “Kindle Top 100 Free“. I promise you, you will find many favorite books of your childhood, from Jules Verne to Karl May, and to real gems of world literature. And although in America, for immediate delivery.
That is not enough? Here is a list of other book archives. What you find there, however, you must first download to PC and transfer them via USB to your Kindle.
- Gutenberg Project: over 33 000 free eBooks in almost all languages of the world that you can download directly in a suitable format for the Kindle. In the “Categories” you can also find a America-language book shelf.
- Google eBookstore: The results of Google’s scanning action – especially in PDF format. Be careful here to not to select the option for e-readers, but the PDF version. Google wants to offer books for sale here, are not compatible with the Kindle.
- Internet Archive: 2.8 million texts in all languages of the world, which are available free of charge, even in Kindle-appropriate formats. Use the “Advanced Search” you can also filter out books in America – to enter in the custom field “parameter” language “and in the value field next to” America “.
- Open Library: may download over a million titles that can be sent directly to the Kindle or Kindle-compatible file.
- Many books: Over 30 000 books chosen (in part from the Gutenberg Project), which can be played directly on the Kindle format.