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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

Once you have the above requirements transferring your ebooks is as simple as just copying them onto the iPhone.

• First find the IP address of your iPhone or iTouch.  I recommend installing SBSettings on your iPod Touch, it is available at BigBoss sources. SBsettings does not come with an icon, you need to swipe your finger at the top of your iPod Touch screen. You will be presented with the following screen.

You also can find your IP address by going to Settings>Wi-Fi and then clicking the arrow next to your Wi-fi network that you are connected to.

• Now open your SSH client on your computer and connect to your iPhone.  I am using WinSCP

Hostname:  IP address you found earlier (192.168.1.3 in the example)

Username: root

Password: alpine

• You should now be in /private/var/root directory of your iPhone.  We need to switch to /private/var/mobile/applications.  You should be in a directory with a bunch of folders with long names of random characters and numbers.

• Now we have to find which directory contains the Kindle app.  Browse through each directory until you find the one that has a folder named kindle.app

• Inside that folder browse to /../documents/ebooks/.  This will be the directory where you need to copy all of your .prc files.
• Once copied over restart the Kindle app on your iPhone.  The app will create the .mbp files seen in the screen shot.

Note:  When you are connected to your iPhone through SSH make sure that the phone dosent enter standby mode or your connection will fail.

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