Comments on: How to Put Non-Amazon Ebooks On Your Kindle

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:58:08 +0000

Barnes & Noble sells books in the epub format with DRM. The only way you’d be able to read them on a Kindle would be to remove that DRM, which (if you’re in the US) is illegal and also requires a lot of technical hoop-jumping.

By: monica

monica — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:37:14 +0000

Hi I really wanted to buy the kindle 3 with wify and 3gb instead of a nook but found amazon dosn’t have a lot of the books i want.Barns and noble does…will calibre make it possable to read the nook books ?I have a windoows laptop.we are in australia .Not very computer savey.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:29:51 +0000

Depends on your country. In the US the DMCA makes it illegal to do so.

By: joseph

joseph — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:13:47 +0000

is it legal to remove drm?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:55:22 +0000

No, unfortunately you’ll have to find a way to remove the DRM from your epub books if you want to still be able to read them.

By: Taina

Taina — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:50:48 +0000

This is great. Before I become an Amazonian, I bought all my books at B&N. Now I can’t read them…blah. Will this DRM removal method work when switching previously bought books from epub to mobi?

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:43:44 +0000

Stephen,
Thank you for your wonderful, detailed post. It makes so much more sense to me now! I work for a tiny, independent bookstore that has just started selling e-books. I want to be able to help our customers, even though I don’t have an e-book reader. (I’m a Luddite at heart.)
GV,
What is the specific add-on to Firefox that you recommend? None of the ones I found seem to be available for Firefox 4.0. Thanks.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 02:48:36 +0000

This was so helpful! I was really angry that there were books I wanted but weren’t available for purchase in the kindle store. I didn’t know a program such as calibre existed so im really excited, the only problem is when I click on a chapter from the table of contents it takes me to the cover page…

By: GV

GV — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:47:27 +0000

If you are trying to find a way to read epub format books in kindle there is a simple solution. Firefox has an addon that reads epub formatted books. All that one has to do is to open the epub books in firefox and use the vertical reading option, select all and paste it into a notepad, export the notepad to kindle and read it! The format is undisturbed.

By: Lunaslairnyc

Lunaslairnyc — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:30:02 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to post such a thorough response. I will be trying all these steps. I bought my grandmother a kindle assuming I could load some of the multitude of e books I have stored in various formats on my laptop. Seems a bit tedious but at least now what need to be done makes sense. I downloaded “owners manual”,searching through for an hour or two the other day and couldn’t even find what file format it used. U really explained it all so well that even the novice such as myself could understand. You seem good at it…do you do this regularly-are you a teacher of some type…physics perhaps?