It's January 2021, in the UK with the Covid-19 lock down !
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I have had some fun with the Christmas present that I bought for myself.
A small and inexpensive Kindle eBook reader. Now, I am not a big reader of anything. I much prefer the radio and for over ten years I have listened to hours of radio each day, not live radio but as Podcasts.
Podcasts are good for me as I can listen on the go, inside, outside, active or resting. Now, stuck indoors safely away from Coronavirus it could be the time to start reading more.
I wondered what the Kindle experience could do for me? The first eBook I read was:-
"Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours"
by Sir Arthur Whitten Brown.
First published in 1920
Wow wee ! I am reading a book that is over 100 years old. Written by one of the men who became the first to fly the Atlantic. A great experience.
The Book's Journey
I imagine Brown writing in pen then pasting the 21 photographs to the paper manuscript and that manuscript taken to a typesetter. The book was then printed and sold in America.
Some years later a volunteer converted the paper book to text and images on a computer. My guess is, this involved optically scanning the book and proof reading the text plus adjusting the scanned images.
The results of this process was an eBook in three formats; Mobi, ePub and ASCII text.
The eBook was then released on 15 October 2014 by Project Guttenburg.
Book number 47129
That is not the end however. I had to download the Mobi file (that's the only one my Kindle will read) and then add it to my Kindle.
Adding a Book to the Kindle.
Go to the Amazon online book store choose a book, pay the money, wait a bit and there it is, on your Kindle.
Yes but that is
so conventional. I wanted to see how I could perhaps, one day write my own material.
There are two ways you can add new books to your Kindle other than buying them online.
- Email the Mobi file to the Kindle
- Connect the Kindle to your computer with the USB cable provided.
For the moment I will leave the cable method alone as the email method works well.
If you have an Amazon account, please search for
Amazon Manage Your Content and Devices
then in Preferences find
Personal Document Settings
There you can set your Kindle email address example:- your_name_????@kindle.com
The address has to be secure so add a code word where I have used ????
You will only receive documents from the email addresses that you have added to your
Approved Personal Document Email List in the Manage Your Content and Devices page.
Please check that your email address is there.
To send a book to your Kindle:-
- Open your email client
- Compose a message
- Add your kindle address in the To: box
- Leave the Subject: box empty
- Attach the Mobi file
- Send the message
Within a short time (less than a minute) you will get an email from Amazon asking you to verify your request to send a eBook to your Kindle.
You must respond to this within 48 hours. Just click on the word [Verify] in the email. You can then delete the email.
Now open your Kindle and enjoy.
Some of my eBooks :-
Just a bit of fun for me, finding out the best way to write eBooks.
Kindle is not the only eBook reader and Mobi is not the only eBook file type. One of the other types is ePub.
In the first column of the table below are links to a brief description of the e-book (or it may be the web page from whence the idea came). I have listed two file types. Please choose whichever is the correct type for your device or App.
To download these files, right click the filename in either the Mobi or ePub column and "Save Link As ..."
NB: Notice where the file is saved to on your device.
Windows 10 eBook Readers
Kindle for PC
Sumatra pdf reader Reads PDF, ePub and MOBI files.
Calibre A reader that can convert files from one format to many others.
Or online with :-
- The Amazon Cloud Reader
- The Chrome browser has an extension called EPUB Reader. This will Read ePub files directly in the browser.
Android eBook Readers
- Al Reader is a text reading App Al Reader
that lets you read almost any document.
- Reads:- txt, epub, html, doc, docx and Mobi.
- You can even read text included in a compressed file.
Dolphin Easy Reader
The ePub reader that talks to you. For the visually impaired community.
iOS eBook Readers
- iBooks is part of the iPad already, iBooks will read ePub files.
- KyBook 3 an eBook Reader kybook-reader.com
- This App reads :- ePub, .PDF, Mobi, azw3 and .MP3
- Auto scrolling and Text-to-speech technology to voice any e-book EPUB / FB2 / MOBI
- Customizable font, text size, page margins ...
A nice feature, when you tap a link on a web page that refers to a eBook file Ky Book will open and download the book to your iPad.
My books have a large font which is too big for this App. Please learn how to set the font size (24 point).
Within a book, Tap the group of dots, 2 in on the top right of the screen.
Then Preferences - Font size.
This page was updated on 17 April 2024
by Terry Rawkins