Why Won 39;t My Kindle Download Books [UPD]
Julian Mejorado
I believe the only way to do this would be to somehow turn your kindle book into a Personal Book (see - this article for details on how to make Personal Books) and import it that way. This could involve a lot of work, depending on the length of the book in question, to ensure it is properly tagged like native Logos resources are, to get the full search functions enjoyed in Logos.
The advantages of the Logos platform are that you can search your entire library, which is why you are asking your question. Do you mind me asking which books you are interested in? Have you checked VYRSO (the new eBook store from Logos)?
Creating a "full featured" Personal Book does require much time & effort, however, creating a simple eBook is fairly straight forward. Vyrso books would be similar in quality because they have hyperlinks to Scripture but not much else.
Typically, books that are in Logos are academic in nature. Vyrso books, on the other hand, are what you would find at your average "Christian" book store. This includes books such as (ahem) "Amish Romance Novels," to "Christian Living" books and devotionals. Here are some things you should know:
One option for use with Logos 4 is reading kindle book using Amazon's Kindle for Mac along with building a Personal Book for your Notes, which could include text copied from Kindle book with citation (similar to Logos 4 copy and paste with footnote reference). Your personal notes could include comparison and/or contrast with other 2nd Temple literature.
I think there are or have been Kindle books without DRM (such as old PD works that Amazon gives away for free or nominal charge), where Alabama's rationale about breaking the protection mechanism wouldn't apply and one might try how it looks. It is upon you to decide whether the use of a simple, automated DRM-removing converter (e.g. a Calibre plugin) is against the law in your jurisdiction and/or your personal ethos. I find that the various legislations and court-rulings in different countries regarding this kind of thing (private format conversion of a digital resource you paid for) are neither consistent nor exhaustive and may render this into a somewhat grey area for some of us. But you need to decide for yourself.
I started doing steps 1-4 before I even had Logos because I don't like giving Amazon total control over items that I've purchased. There was an instance a while back where Amazon remotely removed a book from users' Kindles without notifying them, and to me that's entirely unacceptable (ironically, the book was George Orwell's 1984). If I buy it, I want to be able to put it on any device I want and I want to be sure I can still access it even if Amazon goes under. The ability to add these books to Logos is just an added bonus.
Calibre is great and I have occasionally used it for ebooks from various source types (such as PDF and epub, which one finds on the web for out-of copyright books), however I always "automatically" converted to RTF to open in word, since this used to be Word's format in the past and we advise to use it for "sanitizing" docx-files anyway. It never even occurred to me to try another format... Any issues with RTF or other reasons you prefer the HTML?
I saw that the Kindle Scribe now permits On-page writing for certain kindle books. I went to the amazon store to look at what sorts of kindle books are available for on-page writing. Looks like most of them are for journaling or puzzle books. I clicked "Try a sample" for Championship Crosswords so I could see what it was like to work the puzzle on the kindle and... I couldn't write on it.
Recently, I've become a proud owner of the Boox Air 2 and it has been a delight. However, I've run into a bit of a hitch. While I'm able to annotate and take notes on books that I access via the Boox "Library", I haven't figured out how to do the same for my Kindle books.
I was wondering if there's a method for transferring my Kindle books to the Boox library, which would then allow me to jot notes directly in the book/document. If anyone has navigated this situation before, I would greatly appreciate your insight and advice.
EDIT: Thank you all for your help. Like I said in one of the replies, I was looking at a select few that turned out to be more expensive than I thought it would be. I then said I was probably just unlucky in picking out the first few books to research, to see if they're worth getting for a Kindle.
The kindle books is not avaible in the app without amazon echo or other device :( is not that simple like how you explain. If you have a solution to have kindle avaible in alexa app withouth device, please let me know
I can confirm that alexa app is not showing kindle books. In fact, I tried alexa.amazon.com to check and if you choose to stream kindle to an app, it will tell you that kindle streaming is not available for this device. Apparently amazon decides that it can make more money selling echos so they no longer let you stream kindle books to the app on your phone. I used to listen to my kindle books in my car from the phone and now I am not able to anymore.
This happens sometimes for me as well for many books while Alexa narrates, so probably not select to it. I wish I could find out what causes this issue, sometimes it occurs frequently in short bursts and sometimes nothing happens at all. IDK. );
10 years ago amazon sold illegitimate copies of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, and subsequently deleted them from users' devices, thereby destroying a lot of work for some. I don't think I bought anything illegitimate, but I'd still like to keep a backup of my kindle books that Amazon has no access to, just in case they decide to kill another one of the books for whatever reason. The only discussions here involve fiddling with the DRM. Do you know of another way, on a mac running Mojave?
There was probably a time when your home was brimming with bookshelves, stuffed to the gills with novels you have already read or yet plan to read. These days, a single Kindle can clear out all that clutter, putting virtually every book you could want to read in the palm of your hands.
Yes there is. Due to the bloated and extremely slow management web page for the kindle I invested a few hours into finding a way of creating my own. So far, there is just a library of functions for listing and deleting titles (books and personal docs), but you can make useful stuff on top of it. You can find a Python version here and a JS version here.
This isn't anything as good as a web service, but, if you're the user (i.e., you're trying to get a list of the titles you own): If you install Kindle for PC then you can let it sync and then look in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Amazon\Kindle\Cache\KindleSyncMetadataCache.xml. It contains the ASIN and some other fields (title, authors) (doesn't have purchase date). Seems to contain only books, though that could just be because I don't have documents sent to my Kindle for PC.
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RS Kindle books have been very useful for us traveling. Our family share an Amazon account so we each can have the Kindle book on our own phone/ipad to read. You download the book and can use it offline, so I often read and reread on the plane. I like the Kindle version more than paper when traveling (or even doing research) because I can just get to the links in the Kindle book easily.
I use only Kindle books where available to minimize weight. I figure I keep 3 to 6 pounds of weight out of my bag by using only e-books. That factor outweighs ? any ease-of-use issues I may have jumping around from page to page. I do use bookmarks and highlights extensively in my Kindle versions to make the things I want to reference easier to find.
I use the RS books on Kindle, and they are fine. You can download them to multiple devices and they require no Data as long as they are fully downloaded. I suppose there might be a tactile difference between Kindle and a book, but for me, it has been no issue. I also will buy a physical book as a companion, not necessary, but I understand having something in hand.
Another vote for ebooks. I can do heavy research on my iPad when in a hotel room and then use my iPhone while walking around. I wish that Rick would give the ebook option if you get a book on one of his tours.
I will normally vote for anything electronic over paper. But in the case of guide books, I would rather carry and look at pages than my kindle. On my most recent trip, I bought used versions on eBay of the Rick Steves guide books that I wanted, so that I wouldn't be disinclined to slice out just the pages that I wanted to bring.
I use a kindle version for our travel books. The only problem I have found is that I can't pass on the books to friends who are going to the places we have visited. I received several travel books for an Asian trip for Christmas. I will probably cut the pages out that I need. It will kill me to do so but to take 4 books plus a kindle on an one suitcase trip will also kill me. Such a dilemma, right?!
I am a huge ebook/e-reader fan -- about two-thirds of my reading is done on ebooks, the rest being on physical books I borrow from the library -- but guidebooks are among the rare kind of books I don't like in ebook form. (The other main genre is cookbooks; I'd rather get food splatters on a $20 cookbook instead of a $500+ iPad or $1000+ laptop!)
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