In the United States, and other English-speaking countries dominate the Amazon e-book market as a whole, and their Kindle has almost become synonymous with e-book reader (e-reader).
The point of the Kindle is that it is cheap and extremely easy to use, but it has one drawback: By default, it is locked to Amazon’s own web store. Since there are no Swedish books becomes quite meaningless to most Swedes.
The reason is that all Swedish eBooks using the standard ePub format, and this goes Unable to read in a Kindle.
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Amazon’s idea is of course to lock their customers so they just buy books here, but fortunately there are ways to go around this: the free program Calibre. It converts Swedish epub books into a format that the Kindle can read. Do you have a modern Kindle lets you send over the books over the Internet and you have an older model, you can use cable.
method works with books that you download the free service Laddaner.nu and those you buy in stores Adlibris Mondo and Bokus Ditto. Do you shop at Bokon is superfluous, because here is a similar conversion built into the system.
In contrast, the conversion works not for e-books that you borrow from the library . Here is a copy protection that does not work on the Kindle.
As you can see in our guide to the right is a little tricky conversion, but it does, after all, the Kindle more interesting For us Swedes – in anticipation of the Amazon comes here seriously.
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Step by step:
first Download Calibre … Surfing laddaner.nu/program/calibre , click on the Download directly and save the file to your Desktop. Double click on it, accept the terms of use and select InstallShield to install. When installation is complete, quit with Finish .
second And … set. This opens a configuration wizard where you can choose the language ( Swedish ) and the storage location for e-books. Leave it unchanged by clicking the Next and select the e-book readers. If your Kindle model is not listed, select Generic .
third Enter your e-mail. If you chose the Kindle in step 2, you can now enter your email address. The converted book is mailed automatically to your Kindle, and you avoid the hassle of transferring. Did you select the Generic or any other model, skip this step.
4th Convert. For to convert, click the Add Books . Look up the book, select Open and select it. Press Convert Books and change the Designed mobi top right. If you do not want to make any changes, confirm with OK and go to step 6.
5th Edit. I most cases there is information such as title, cover art and author name in the e-book. If this is missing, you can complete it in the metadata . The advanced user can also choose other menu options on the left to trim the e-book.
6th For over. If you entered email address in step 3 sent the book to the Kindle. Otherwise, click on the Path Click to open . Right-click the mobi file, select Copy and connect the Kindle to your computer using a USB cord. Open the Kindle and the Documents . Right click and select Paste .
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difficulty: Simple.
Program: Calibre.
Time: 10 minutes.
What you need:
- connected computer running Windows XP or later.
- E-book in ePub format.
- Amazon Kindle.
This will teach you :
- How to install Calibre.
- To convert a Swedish book to Kindle.
- The secret of e-book formats.
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