The two most popular ePub readers for Android are not made available for the Kindle Fire, as Amazon concentrates on its own books but, as with about 3 million free books available these days for reading on the Kindle and which Amazon points us to on their own pages (re Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, etc., all explained at this blog's Free Kindle Books guide), Amazon doesn't limit your ability to download non-Amazon books (despite the myths propagated by those who may just wish it were so). epub files from working like the books they are.Amazon makes it possible but doesn't make it ultra-easy But the major disadvantage of Amazon’s half-step remains: There’s still an annoying digital middleman keeping. There are advantages to KF8 files - they’re designed for the Kindle, and fully-support the e-reader’s specific ways of displaying footnotes, fonts, and typesetting. The Verge reports any ePub file you send to your Kindle using Amazon’s service is actually getting converted to a proprietary KF8 file, which isn’t exactly the same thing as the e-reader “supporting” ePub files in fact, it’s totally different. Send to Kindle - The move isn’t without caveats. It’s been a long time coming, but starting later this year you’ll be able to use Amazon’s Send to Kindle service to get your DRM-free ePubs on your Kindle, meaning the file format will be supported whether you’re using Amazon’s apps to transfer them, or emailing the file directly to your Kindle. Amazon is finally supporting ePub files - the de facto open ebook standard - on Kindles, according to help documentation spotted by Good E-Reader.
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