

The real benefits of Calibre is its library management/organizer tools, its metadata editor, its ‘Get Books’ web searcher, and especially, its conversion feature which allows you to convert from virtually any format to virtually any format - and, if you are so inclined, there are plugins that take care of the DRM issues. But it is NOT Calibre - it just comes with the package. Calibre is NOT an eReader - altho as one of its many functions and capabilities does provide an excellent eReader - one that can read virtually any of the many eBook formats without requiring conversion - and it is stand-alone, i.e., it is a separately executable program that you set as the default opener for eBooks of all types (EPUB, MOBI, PRC, LIT, AZW, HTML, FRZ, LPF, PDB, PDF, and probably many others). However, I agree that you are not doing justice to one of the really great ‘free’ open source programs ever - Calibre. (Transcript lightly edited for readability.)Īnother way is to install the ‘Nook for Adroid’ App on the Kindle Fire - works great. You can perform that conversion yourself using Calibre. In fact, the format I use to upload a Kindle book to be Put a DRM layer on top of that, but fundamentally, it’s the underlying format MOBI format is actually the native format used by the Amazon Kindle. You can use Calibre to load up your epub book and then save it in. It will do conversions of one format to another. It’s actually a desktop ebook reader, but So the practical answer to your question is The problem is the Kindle won’t be able to read it. Well, the answer to the literal question that you asked is yes.

Answercast #77, I look at ways to send a book that is in epub format to a
