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“The fourth/fifth generation Kindles, Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch 3G, and Kindle Paperwhite can display AZW, TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, and PRC files natively. HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP are usable through conversion. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#File_formats]) | “The fourth/fifth generation Kindles, Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch 3G, and Kindle Paperwhite can display AZW, TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, and PRC files natively. HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP are usable through conversion. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#File_formats]) | ||
Safari Books offered three formats for e-book that I wanted to download: PDF, MOBI and ePub. NOTE: Not all e-books are downloadable. | Safari Books offered three formats for e-book that I wanted to download: PDF, MOBI and ePub. NOTE: Not all e-books are downloadable. Of these MOBI seems to be the best option. MOBI and ePub are reflowable and richly formatted whereas PDF is fixed layout. ePub appears unsupported on the Kindle though it sounds like there are conversion programs out there. | ||
I searched for and found the book I wanted to read, clicked “Download”, then selected the .MOBI format. Then I plugged my Kindle into my computer, found the MOBI file I had downloaded and moved the it into the Kindle “Documents” folder. I turned on my Kindle and there was the book on my local device ready to read. | I searched for and found the book I wanted to read, clicked “Download”, then selected the .MOBI format. Then I plugged my Kindle into my computer, found the MOBI file I had downloaded and moved the it into the Kindle “Documents” folder. I turned on my Kindle and there was the book on my local device ready to read. | ||