Once you're setup and ready to go, the process is quite simple.įirst, you'll want to add your books to Calibre. Quality Check will allow you to easily find and update metadata for your installed books, such as finding Amazon ASIN numbers and Goodreads ID's. Follow the instructions to install the plugin then restart Calibre.

You can do this by navigating to Preferences -> Get plug-ins to enhance Calibre and searching for 'Quality Check' in the User Plug-ins window. The first thing you'll want to do is launch Calibre and install a plugin called Quality Check. The ebook you want to transfer over to your device, in.

You'll need a few things before we get started. Thanks to a super helpful post on Reddit, I found a useful method you can use to easily sideload books while also making sure they integrate properly with Goodreads.įor the sake of posterity here's the process you need to follow, with images. This can be quite a pain in the arse at times, particularly if you want the integration with Goodreads to work. The news is not only good for users, but also for independent authors and publishers who seek to offer their titles through electronic reading devices and who sometimes had to choose which format to bet on.I buy a lot of ebooks from Games Workshop's independent publishing arm, Black Library and frequently find myself needing to load these ebooks onto my kindle. While this means there won't be full support for EPUB files, it's good news, as we'll finally be able to import books purchased on other platforms to the Kindle. However, the process is not transparent: through the 'Send to Kindle' function, the user will be able to send and open epub files on their device, however, these will be automatically converted to a format called AZW3, which is nothing else than EPUB, but with some technical features of Amazon. Amazon updated the documentation on the Kindle support page and finally lists epub as one of the supported formats for the device. The Kindle uses its own format (called AZW) and the MOBI format, and although files can be transferred in EPUB format, it is necessary to do a manual process using a package like Caliber.īut things are about to change.

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