Download Kindle Cloud Reader For Mac

Connected this way, its internal storage mounts as an external drive, appearing as 'Kindle' on a Mac's Finder sidebar, and assigned a drive letter when hooked up to a Windows PC.

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Amazon just let us know that their Kindle Cloud Reader is now live, and lets you read any of their over 950,000 Kindle books right in Safari on iPad, Mac, or Windows, or Chrome on Windows, Mac, or Linux, without needing the Kindle app or hardware. Kindle Cloud Reader is compatible with the following browsers. Google Chrome 20 and higher on Linux, MacOS X, and Windows. Mozilla Firefox 10 and higher on Linux, MacOS X, and Windows. I have almost 2000 Kindle books in my Cloud Reader and this makes it SO easy to sort them into different categories. I just don't understand why this isn't available as an ap for the Kindle Fire. Enter your e-mail or mobile number to deliver the Kindle App to your device. Read anytime, anywhere on your phone, tablet, or computer. Go beyond paper with immersive, built-in features. Turn your phone or tablet into a book with the free Kindle apps for iOS, Android, Mac, and PC. To read a book in the Cloud Reader, just tap on its cover art; while tapping in the Kindle app will download the entire book to your device, the Cloud Reader web app will start loading the book.

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In this post you’ll find two ways to back up Kindle books from the cloud to your computer. One requires a Kindle; the other one doesn’t.

Having Kindle books stored in the cloud is very convenient. It allows to sync reading progress between devices registered to the same account. It also is a way to back up the books you don’t currently read.

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Well, sometimes it’s good to back up the books the other way round. In this post, we’ll show how to do it, using:

• the Kindle e-reader,
• the Kindle for Mac/PC application.

Ebookstores have much more control over Kindle users’ accounts than anyone could imagine. This e-reader privacy chart explains this in detail.

In other words, someone else has access to your Kindle library and it’s not 100% up to you what and when will change. It’s how cloud storage works, we either deny it or live with it.

While removing content from user’s account is an exception, you may see changes in books you’ve bought. It happens when a publisher updates the file associated with the book. It could be just a formatting, or it could be a new edition that differs from what you had before.

Before moving to the guides, please keep in mind that ebooks from Amazon are DRM-ed. You won’t be able to read them on any other app or device. Or, to put it differently, you will be able after you get rid of the DRM layer.

Tips shared below will let you bring the books you purchased in Amazon’s Kindle Store to you computer – just in case something wrong happens on the other side.

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Back up Kindle books using Kindle e-reader

This tip works for anyone who owns a Kindle e-reader. It’s a quite useful idea to get access to the ebook library even when you don’t have access to the internet.

Also, it’s good if you want to add to your Kindle – and therefore, Kindle cloud library – the books that you acquired from other sites. We’ve got the extended list of the sites that offer free Kindle ebooks from the public domain.

There are two steps to back up Kindle ebooks via Kindle e-reader:

1. Connect the Kindle to your computer via USB cable.
2. Find the folder containing the books and copy it to disc.

1. Connect the Kindle to your computer with a USB cable

When you connect the Kindle to your computer, either PC or Mac, it will appear as an external drive. Open the drive icon, and locate the folder named “documents”.

Among other files types, the folder contains files in .azw format. It’s a .mobi file, protected with Amazon’s own DRM.

2. Copy the folder to a desired destination

Drag the “documents” folder to a desired place on your disc. You can also copy it to any cloud service you use, like Dropbox or Google Drive.

These cloud services are different from the cloud served by the Amazon. The files there are yours, and no one will change or update them if you don’t allow it.

Things to remember

Please keep in mind that you’ll copy only the files that are stored on the Kindle e-reader, and not the ones archived in the cloud.

To back up all the books from your Kindle library, you’ll first need to download them to the Kindle e-reader, which may take some time.

Back up Kindle books using Kindle desktop app

Using Kindle desktop app is convenient for Kindle users who don’t own an e-reader, and use mobile apps (iOS, Android) to read the ebooks.

It’s also good for Kindle e-reader owners who keep most of their books not on the e-reader but in the cloud.

There are four steps to back up Kindle books via Kindle desktop app:

1. Download the Kindle desktop application (there are versions for PC and Mac).
2. Download the books from the cloud to the app.
3. Locate the folder with Kindle books on your computer.
4. Copy it to disc.

1. Download the Kindle desktop app

The Kindle application lets you not only manage, but also read Kindle books on the computer. It’s available for the following systems:

• Kindle for Windows 7, XP and Vista
• Kindle for Windows 8
• Kindle for Mac

When you go to free Kindle apps page on Amazon and click on the Download button, the version that fits the operating system of your computer will start downloading immediately.

After instaling the app, open it and sign in with your Amazon credentials.

2. Download the books from the cloud

In the app, in the Library view on the left, you’ll see how many books you have in your Kindle cloud library. There are three sections:

• All items – how many books you have in your Kindle account in total,
• Downloaded items – how many books you have on the disc of your PC or Mac computer,
• Archived items – these books are stored in the Kindle cloud, and not downloaded to the computer.

Each book that’s not on your computer has a cloud icon in the bottom right corner.

To download the book (on Mac), either double-click on the book cover or select “Download” from a Ctrl+Click menu.

There is no option to download the Kindle books in bulk. You’ll have to do it title by title, but with the double-click, it’s pretty fast.

Please have in mind that just like with Kindle e-reader, you’ll have to download all the books from the archive to the Kindle app, if you want to back up all of them.

3. Locate the folder with downloaded books

During installation, Kindle desktop app creates a folder where all future downloads will be stored.

Below there are paths to find that folder:

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• Mac ⇢ ~/Library/Containers/com.amazon.Kindle/Data/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content
• Windows 7, XP, Vista ⇢ C: / Users / Your User ID / Documents / My Kindle Content
• Windows 8 ⇢ C: / Users / Your User ID / AppData / Local / Amazon / Kindle / application / content

I tested the directory on the Mac computer. For details on Windows, please read this Kindle forum.

Useful links

Here are a couple of reference links, in case you need more assistance:

• Free Kindle apps – the download page for Kindle application, not only for PC or Mac, but also iOS and Android.
• Kindle for Mac on the App Store – this is a download link for Mac users who prefer to get the Kindle app from the Mac App Store.
• Kindle for PC installation instructions – if you have problems with installing the Kindle app on your PC, had tot his section of Amazon Help Pages.
• Kindle for Mac support – assistance in installing and managing the Kindle for Mac application.

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Home > Guide and Tutorials > How to print Kindle books with ease

Can you print kindle books from kindle on PC or Mac? In general, Kindle App (Kindle For PC) does not provide any print function in its software. That is to say you can neither print e-books from Amazon nor the ebook in your Kindle. Because most of the electronic publishers will forbid users printing these ebooks.

I like to try to make some fresh and tasty food by myself very much. But when I was using the ebook I met a lot of problems. If I buy a paper ebook, such as methods on how to conduct delicious soup production. Then I can try making soup, at the same time it is able for me to turn on the paper pages. It looks quite ordinary. But if it is an ebook, I need to lay my Kindle next to the pan in the kitchen, and then while making food I need to use my fingers aside to touch Kindle? Things like this happen frequently. That's too awful! In order to change these conditions, I need to be able to print some fragments of Kindle ebook, such as recipe menu, or the making method of a single dish. I believe you must have the similar experiences as me which also bring you a lot of trouble. So I will introduce a few kinds of methods to help you achieve printing Kindle ebook.

How to print Kindle books (azw ebooks)?

There are two factors that result in inability for us to print kindle books directly.

1, Kindle for PC/Kindle for Mac does not provide any direct way to print ebooks, which leads to the consequence that we can't print our documents through the simple way.

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2. Kindle DRM limitation. Kindle DRM makes the ebook unable to be read on other electronic readers. It also notices us that kindle drm limits the electronic book conversion. So you can't convert Kindle Azw, MOBI ebook format to EPUB, TXT or other ebook formats.

After we understand what prevents us from printing electronic book, we can begin to solve this problem (print Kindle books).

1. First, remove the DRM protection in ebooks. No matter what ebooks you try to print, this is the necessary step. Please note, only when the ebook's drm has been removed, it can be converted to other formats or read on any electronic equipment.

2. Convert your books to the format that is convenient for you to print. Now the extensively supported formats are ePub and PDF. So you can convert Kindle AZW to ePub or PDF. Then the converted books are easily accepted by other software. Most of the softwares support ePub and PDF reading and printing! (Note: the premise is that drm has been stripped.)

In order to use the fastest and the most simple way to achieve the ebook printing, we recommend you to use one quite practical tool. Epubsoft Ebook Converter! Because it supports multiple Ebook format conversion. And at the same time it supports Adobe DRM, Kindle DRM protected ebooks. So, you need only four steps then you can easily realize the ebook print.

1. Install and run Epubsoft Ebook Converter.
2. Click Add Button to add the ebooks which you want to convert, and then select the output format (usually EPUB,PDF) on the left region.
3. Click on the “Start” button to start converting. The whole operation will be done with minutes.
4. Now you can use some universal softwares to print your ebooks. Like Adobe Reader (PDF Format), Microsoft Office, Calibre ebook management software.

How to print PDF ebooks with Adobe Reader?

If your ebooks are PDF format and not drm protected, you can use Adobe Reader to print your ebooks. It's very easy, look at these steps.

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1. If you have not installed Adobe Reader yet, click here to download Adobe Reader.
2. Run Adobe Reader, and click “File” – “Open” menu to choose your ebook file, and then click the “Print” button on the top window.
3. You can set print details in the new dialog, and finally click 'OK' button to begin to print.

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