![]() ![]() RetroRead (BLTC Press) offers free conversion of any free ePub Google Book to Amazon Kindle format for delivery to your Kindle or to your computer via your normal email address. RETROREAD'S AUTOMATED GOOGLE BOOK CONVERSIONS I've added, below, a section about a new service that will convert a Google Book for you (using the method below) and send it to your Kindle if you want (Amazon charges 15 cents per megabyte of a file if 3G Whispernet delivery is used to send the file) OR will send it instead to the email address you use for correspondence with Amazon (no cost involved). How to download any of the 30,000 Project Gutenberg books to your Kindle, direct. Google describes the book conversion process Read foreign-language Google-books in English online So, yes, those million+ free Google books are fully useable on the Kindle - it just needs this added step, but it's also great to be able to customize so much of the layout if you want. Oh, Calibre gives you the option to optimize your converted file for the Kindle 2 or the Kindle DX. I did one and moved it to the Kindle DX and it looks great. If there is no Table of Contents you can 'force' Calibre to create one.Īt the top are choices to "Edit meta information: as well as "Convert E-books." Follow the instructions, and then press the 'OK' button and the conversion will take a few minutes. ![]() The ability to change the "meta information" is nice - so you can have names and authors as you like them. Hovering over anything will usually bring a help tip.Īccepting defaults is fine. On the LEFT will be your choices for set-up when you're converting a document. If the words on the PDF are too small though, then get the ePub file. If you have a Kindle DXG, you might prefer to just get the PDF. Then do a search for what you want.Īt the top right, once you choose a book, you'll see "Download" which will be a pull-down menu showing a choice of PDF or ePub. To find a free book (they are all mixed with $$$-books), click on "Full Preview" as those tend to be the free ones. To get a free Google book (most written before 1923 but there are some nice older magazines there as well), go to Google's " Best of the Free" page and select one. If you don't already have this free software, created and maintained by Kovid Goyal, download Calibre here. This blog article focuses only on converting the ePub file-format to a Kindle-readable one. Many use it already for organized computer records of their Kindle files or for retrieving combinations of newspaper feeds for their Kindles (not as easily navigated as the paid subscrptions). There are currently at least three popular free tools that can convert ePub files to Kindle-compatible MOBI files: (1) mobigen.exe (not intuitive) (2) Mobipocket Reader 6.2 (loses some of the styling) and (3) Calibre, which has a nice interface, is easy to use, works with pc's and Macs, and gets the best results. Some newspapers have reported that the million+ free Google files are not usable on the Kindle. We just need to convert them to MOBI files. This will also allow the Kindle features of highlighting, note-adding, font-size adjustments, and will be included in search results when the full Kindle is searched for key words. These ePub files are easier to work with than the PDF ones because they involve text-reflow instead of keeping a page exactly as originally laid out and therefore with words too tiny on small screens.Īlso, Google has done, in that ePub file, the text-reflow for us, which should bring more reliable to-MOBI conversions for books with complex layouts. (Many don't know that the Kindle 2, 3, and DX Kindles can read PDFs direct - but this isn't ideal on the 6" screens.) 27, 2009 - Yesterday Google offered over a million free e-books in EPUB format as well as in PDF format. Original Posting on How to Convert free Google ePub books to Kindle formatĪug. ![]() The below blog article below is now outdated and has too many off-topic sections due to chronological updates about Google Books, not particularly germane to the topic. SEE THE UPDATED VERSION OF THIS OLDER POST, WITH AN ADDED SOLUTION AND CLEARER PRESENTATION AT THIS LINK: (bit.ly/epub-to-kindle ) This explains how to get and use Calibre to easily convert any free ePub Google file to Kindle format OR use a conversion site to have it done for you if the book is in the public domain. ![]()
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