Archive for February, 2010
Uploading non-amazon ebooks to Kindle for iPhone app
by admin on Feb.27, 2010, under Uncategorized
Like on the Kindle itself, the iPhone app lets users add bookmarks and adjust the text size of digital books. Since all purchased Kindle books are linked to an Amazon account, titles can be purchased online, on the kindle or in the app and then be pulled into the Kindle iPhone app or your kindle the next time it’s launched. If all your ebooks have been purchased through Amazon then you would have no problem reading your books on your iphone. However the iPhone app has no option to upload books that may have been download outside of Amazon.
Unlike the Kindle which uses files with extensions of .azw the iPhone app uses the mobi format of .prc. Only difference between the two is that .azw files are just .mobi (.prc) files with DRM removed. So in most cases you can just change the file extension on the end as long as you have a DRM free ebook. If your ebook is in another format (.pdf, .pdb, .epub…etc) then you will need to convert it before loading it onto your iPhone.
What you will need
- Jailbroken iPhone or iTouch
- OpenSSH running on iPhone
- SSH client (continue reading…)
