#CREATING MOBI BOOKS FREE#
I am just totally lost and frustrated because I have all of these awesome books just sitting there waiting for me to read and I can't get them on my stinking Kindle! I never had a single issue putting them on my Kindle Keyboard. Kindle Create is a free interior formatting tool that works well with most books you want to publish on Amazon, but there are requirements and supported features we want you to know about before you download. I have installed and have been running version 0.9.13 throughout this process. Then I kept reading and saw that this solution was for the older version of Calibre and from what I understand, doesn't work with the newer version. I read the thread back in mid-Sept that Kovid posted about this detection issue and the solution was to enable the beta version in Calibre, which I did using his directions for the plugin tweak. I checked to make sure I have Windows Media Player 11, which I do. So I got the app, but only to find out that this app does not work with the Kindle Fire HD. Because of this, we can only transfer books wirelessly, for which I would need the Calibre Companion app.
#CREATING MOBI BOOKS HOW TO#
So here, for your viewing pleasure, is a video I made of how to set up Scrivener to make your. I read where with Windows XP users, the Kindle Fire HD is not recognized on the computer as a letter drive and I confirmed this is the case. mobi and ePub files (for Kindle and Nook etc.) I recently mentioned how easy it was to use Scrivener to create the ebook files for The Demon You Know, and several folks asked me to go into more detail. I tried emailing books to my kindle email address, but then learned that this doesn't work with the my Kindle type. I have spent the past two days reading up on this problem and have tried every troubleshooting idea that I could find and my husband did as well.to no avail. Calibre is not able to detect my Kindle Fire HD. I am back up and running now, so I went to transfer my Calibre library to it with no luck. I recently got a Kindle Fire HD after my Kindle Keyboard broke. I didn't have this kind of trouble with the origional Kindle Fire.Īm I the only one? Is this just how the Fire HD works? Interestingly these appear to show up on the HD in the root of the "Books" folder with names like B003SX0XY4_EBOK.prc and B004MME2OC_EBOK.prc. Those show up in the doc section on the Fire HD. I have successfully sent the books to the Fire HD using the email address. I've looked in books and docs and I have rebooted the device several times. However, the books don't show up on the Fire HD anywhere. They are in subfolders with the authors name. mobi files are in the "Books" folder on the Fire HD.
#CREATING MOBI BOOKS DRIVERS#
I have enabled the beta drivers and am able to send books to the Fire HD via MTP. SOLUTION: The Kindle Fire HD doesn't seem to support books in subfolders of the "Books" folder on the device. Optionally set target reader to further enhance quality. I'm leaving the description below in case it helps anyone else. An Online MOBI converter that can convert documents and ebooks to the mobi ebook reader format. EDIT: I found the solution to my problem while writing the post.