The Kindle app gives users the ability to read eBooks on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You may also read your book on your phone, tablet and Kindle e-Reader, and Amazon Whispersync will automatically sync your most recent page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights, so you can pick up right where you left off. To copy a book to your Kindle, just drag the file into the Documents folder, eject the Kindle from your Mac, and unplug the USB cable. The book should automatically appear in the list of books on.
Let me show you the steps as it’s pretty easy once you know where to grab the app. First off, here’s my Finder window with an Amazon Kindle Fire 8 HD plugged in to my MacBook Pro: Lots of files, folders, devices, etc. But no Kindle device. To get that, you’ll need to get a program called Android File Transfer and install it. Pilot: 'We just had something go right over the top of us' Rosamund Pike: I've been Photoshopped for film ads. Potato Head goes gender neutral — sort of. You can easily download and install the latest version of the Kindle for Mac from our download page on Amazon. You can check the Kindle version number by choosing 'Kindle' from the menu of your app and then selecting 'About Kindle.' Please see our troubleshooting pages for Kindle for Mac if you have any other questions.
Brian Hamilton, a reader who reads, is frustrated by what he perceives to be a Kindle limitation. He writes:
I have the Kindle app on my iPad as well as a “real” Kindle e-reader. While the books I purchase from Amazon stay in sync, I sometimes add books to the two devices that I got somewhere other than Amazon (Project Gutenberg, for example). These books don’t stay in sync. Is there any way to make them behave like Amazon’s ebooks?
As some are so fond of saying, “You’re loading it wrong.” It’s like this: Ebooks sold by Amazon are in the Mobi format. These books contain a particular bit of metadata that tells the Kindle reader that page syncing can be carried out with this particular piece of literature. Books that have been converted to Mobi format often lack this metadata. So while you can read them, they won’t sync page information between devices unless you load them in the correct way.
The incorrect way is to “sideload” them—meaning copying them from your computer directly to the device as you would if you mounted your Kindle reader as a USB device or added books to the Kindle app on your iPad via iTunes.
The way that works is to email these books to your Kindle and iOS device. And Amazon provides a tool for doing exactly that in the form of its Send to Kindle application. Just launch the application and drag any Mobi files you wish to sync into its window. The window will change to show the books you intend to mail as well as a list of Kindle devices registered to your account. Select the devices you wish to send your books to and click Send. The application will upload your books and, eventually, they’ll appear on the devices you selected.
Unlike with sideloaded books, these will stay in sync. Read the first couple of chapters of a book on your Kindle Paperwhite, for example, move back to the Home screen, pick up your iPad, launch its Kindle app, select the same book, and you should see a notice asking if you’d like to move to the highest numbered page read on another of your Kindle devices.
Brian Hamilton, a reader who reads, is frustrated by what he perceives to be a Kindle limitation. He writes:
I have the Kindle app on my iPad as well as a “real” Kindle e-reader. While the books I purchase from Amazon stay in sync, I sometimes add books to the two devices that I got somewhere other than Amazon (Project Gutenberg, for example). These books don’t stay in sync. Is there any way to make them behave like Amazon’s ebooks?
As some are so fond of saying, “You’re loading it wrong.” It’s like this: Ebooks sold by Amazon are in the Mobi format. These books contain a particular bit of metadata that tells the Kindle reader that page syncing can be carried out with this particular piece of literature. Books that have been converted to Mobi format often lack this metadata. So while you can read them, they won’t sync page information between devices unless you load them in the correct way.
Kindle App For Macbook Pro
The incorrect way is to “sideload” them—meaning copying them from your computer directly to the device as you would if you mounted your Kindle reader as a USB device or added books to the Kindle app on your iPad via iTunes.
The way that works is to email these books to your Kindle and iOS device. And Amazon provides a tool for doing exactly that in the form of its Send to Kindle application. Just launch the application and drag any Mobi files you wish to sync into its window. The window will change to show the books you intend to mail as well as a list of Kindle devices registered to your account. Select the devices you wish to send your books to and click Send. The application will upload your books and, eventually, they’ll appear on the devices you selected.
Amazon Kindle App For Macbook Pro
Unlike with sideloaded books, these will stay in sync. Read the first couple of chapters of a book on your Kindle Paperwhite, for example, move back to the Home screen, pick up your iPad, launch its Kindle app, select the same book, and you should see a notice asking if you’d like to move to the highest numbered page read on another of your Kindle devices.