If you put them anywhere else, they won't be seen. The KindleĬan only see e-books if you put them inside its 'documents' folder. Look for the book on their Kindle, the e-book isn't there. When they look at their Kindle in Windows, the file is there. When people contact us because they have trouble getting a UniversalisĮ-book onto the Kindle, the commonest reason is that they have copied theĮ-book file onto the Kindle somewhere other than the 'documents' folder. Will no longer see a device called "Kindle". Your Kindle will go back to being a Kindle again, and your Windows computer Select "Eject" from the pop-up menu, and two things will happen: The easiest thing is to go to the "Kindle" name and right-click Remove Hardware" and "Eject", which can be rather confusing! On our Windows systems, the command is called both "Safely Information to the Kindle, and it will change the Kindle back from beingĪ USB drive to being a real, live e-book reader.ĭifferent versions of Windows have different names for the command you This will make Windows write every bit of necessary Once you have successfully copied the file, you can delete the original from your desktop. Up with your file in the Kindle's 'documents' folder, something like this: However you decide to copy the e-book file, the result will be the same. All it needs to be able to do is to copy it to your Kindle. Your computer doesn't need to understand this e-book file. Your computer may not even understand this type of file, in which case you'll get an error message if you double-click. Double-clicking tells Windows to open a file on your computer, and this is not what you want to do here. No harm will come if you do it, but it won't be useful either. Click on the file iconĪnd press Ctrl+C to copy it to the Clipboard, then click inside the 'documents'įolder and press Ctrl+V to paste the file from the Clipboard onto the Kindle.ĭo not double-click on the e-book file. If you prefer, you can copy and paste instead. The simplest is to drag the file icon straight from your desktop into the 'documents' Windows has lots of ways of copying files. Now all you need to do is to take the e-book file which you have just createdĪnd put on your desktop, and copy it into the Kindle's 'documents' folder. (your Kindle will probably have a lot more files listed than ours does). ![]() ![]() Or double-clicking, whichever your version of Windows requires) and view The important folder is the one called 'documents'. Open up the "Kindle" drive (you may need to click or double-click)Īnd you'll see some folders, something like this: (we've added the blue highlight to make it clear what you should be looking You will see your Kindle appear in your list of disk drives in "My What happens next depends on your version of Windows, but at some point Using the USB cable that came with your Kindle, plug your Kindle into a Press the "Save to Desktop" button, and the e-book file will be saved on your desktop. You won't have to type it but you may want to be able to recognize it if you have a crowded desktop. If something went wrong with Universalis's direct method of transferring an e-book to the Kindle, using "Save to Kindle", you can transfer the file yourself, by hand.įirst, note the name of the file: the Universalis window displays it to you. Instead of using a USB connection, you can also transfer
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