■ Transfer e-books to or from your Amazon Kindle

Do you know that you can treat your Kindle ebook reader as an external hard disc? Apparently many people don't, so here's a quick course to transfer books to (or from) your Kindle using xplorer².

When you connect your Kindle to your PC or laptop via USB cable, it shows up as an external drive letter like D:\ just like as if you connected some external disc storage. So you can treat it as a normal hard disc to transfer files (books) in and out. It is much easier than connecting android phones because you get a filesystem drive.

Say you have downloaded some Kindle e-book (AZW or MOBI) from project Gutenberg and have them in your PC in Downloads folder. Kindle's book library is in a folder called DOCUMENTS, so browse it in one pane, and browse the source folder in the other xplorer² pane. Select and copy the MOBI files (books) into your Kindle's Documents folder and it will recognize them as new books. Or alternatively copy files from Kindle to your PC as a backup or when migrating to a new Kindle device.

kindle as an external drive

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