Kindle - any owners who can help me with questions about it?

[Giuanniello]

I have a friend who lives abroad, he's apparently not doing too well (neither here by the way...) and I know he likes to read, I thought of getting an Amazon Kindle, have it shipped to me, fill it with some books and then ship it to him, no big deal here.

What if then he wants to add books on his own and without a computer? So far I know he owns an iPhone but no computer, if I get the WiFi version or 4G whatever would he be able to add books?

Is there any other option besides the Kindle which is not too expensive?

Grazie

 

[imdropbear]

Good news, you can set up a Kindle so that you just have to email the ebook (in one of the supported formats) to a @kindle.com-address and it automatically gets added to the book's library.

You don't even need to ship it to you in the first place. Just set up an Amazon account, configure it and all he has to do is to log in with the credentials.

Other options? There are other ebook readers besides the Kindle but I personally never used one of them. I only ever had the Kindle Paperwhite (base model didn't have light back then) and never had the urge to upgrade or look into other options because it does its job perfectly fine.

 

[Giuanniello]

Wow, that's great! So I can ship it straight to him and then upload books to the mailbox associated with the Kindle and once he is in WiFi zone he'll find the books in the device, is that correct?

I have a few books I want to share with him, mostly I try and use ePubs which I read on my ancient iPad2, I understand I will have to convert them to make them usable on a Kindle, Calibre should do that, correct?

One last question, which are the Kindle's accepted ebook formats?

By the way, found a still boxed used one in my neighbourhood (well, neighbourhood is a big word, it's 17NM away with ocean in between but for the like of 70 euros could make it), Kindle Paperwhite in base edition, that should do it.

Grazie, this community always works it out 🙏🏼

 

[imdropbear]

Correct. Set the account up (you need to specify email addresses that are allowed to send files to the device for security reasons), give him the credentials, mail books to the email address and it should automatically download them if everything is set up correctly.

And yes, calibre can convert EPUBs. You can even send them to the email address directly from within calibre. Kindle supports a variety of formats but it doesn’t really matter since you can always convert them to Amazon’s MOBI. You usually don’t even need calibre: When you send a file to the device specific @kindle.com address you can write „convert“ into the title and they’ll automatically convert it (doesn’t work for EPUB though, that’s when you really need calibre).