Now you know how to email an e-book to your Kindle, the next step is to figure out your e-book's format, which will determine how best to send it. *Deals are selected by our partner, TechBargains TechBargains Choose Your E-Book Format Remember, your Kindle needs to be attached to a Wi-Fi or 3G network for this to work. To use a different email, click Add a new approved e-mail address and enter the address you want to use. If that's the email address you'll be using to send e-books to your Kindle, you're all set. The email attached to your Amazon account should be listed here. Click the down arrow on the right and scroll to Approved Personal Document E-mail List. (It's set to a default address, but you can change it by clicking Edit.)īack up top, click the Preferences tab and scroll down to Personal Document Settings. Until now, you had to manually convert EPUB files into MOBI (or another format) to load them onto your Kindle, and this often brought additional issues as the conversion wasn't always perfect.Īlso, the news is notable for the sheer fact that Amazon avoided supporting the otherwise widely supported EPUB format for nearly 15 years (EPUB is an open standard that originally launched in September 2007).On the next page, you'll see a Device Summary that lists your email address.

This is a big deal for everyone who owns a Kindle and isn't completely reliant on Amazon's library. It's unclear, however, whether Kindles will natively support EPUB files, allowing you to purchase ebooks from Amazon's library in the EPUB format directly. This means you'll be able to send EPUB files to your Kindle via Amazon's handy Send to Kindle system, which essentially lets you upload documents to your Kindle by emailing them to your Kindle email address. 'Beginning in late 2022, Send to Kindle applications will support EPUB (.EPUB) format,' says the document. You know how every other ebook reader under the sun supports EPUB files, but Amazon's Kindle stubbornly refuses to do so? Well, that's changing.Īmazon quietly updated its help documentation (opens in a new tab) (via Goodreader (opens in a new tab)) to state that Kindle devices will start supporting EPUB files.

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