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Can you use a Kindle without an Amazon account?
I just got a new paperwhite, and am reading my own books on it without registering. It nags you to register, but if you open Calibre, and then connect via USB, you can put books on, and it all works ...
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Is there a way to share my Amazon eBook collection with other family members?
You can lend Kindle books to others through the Kindle store:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_rel_topic?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200549320
"A Kindle book can only be loaned one ...
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Can you use a Kindle without an Amazon account?
Never register your kindle when you buy. Turn off wifi by putting into wifi mode. Then just use your kindle as a sort of usb stick with screen. Drag and drop pdf and mobi files (use the great free ...
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Can you use a Kindle without an Amazon account?
I can't speak definitively about this, but my understanding is that you need a kindle account to register the device as new.
The reason is that amazon.com wants to make sure you are able to spend ...
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Can Amazon know about the books I upload to my Kindle device?
While it is possible, it is improbable as long as you ensure all data capabilities of the device are always off. If they are ever turned on, there would be nothing stopping Amazon from snooping what's ...
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Can I use Kindle to read research papers?
Hello and welcome to forum.
I am also mainly using kindle to read research papers. PDF files with two columns are running smoothly and fast on kindle (from the performance point of view). The problem ...
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How Does Amazon Kindle Renting work on *buntu/Linux Systems?
Perhaps renting works differently from buying/lending/borrowing ebooks, but all you do is to download the Kindle reading app on your device. Then, the rented item will magically appear after you ...
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Can one use two Amazon accounts on one Kindle?
I asked the same question to an Amazon customer service. The answer I got was NO. I did recommended them to design a way to allow users to link their multiple accounts in whatever countries.
What I'...
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Do I need an Amazon account to use a Kindle?
You don't need a credit Card to register your amazon account.
With amazon account, it is much easier to send your personal books to your kindle:
send books an an attachment to your personal amazon ...
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Can Amazon know about the books I upload to my Kindle device?
Yes. A Kindle is an Amazon device, loaded with Amazon software, with communications capabilities. It absolutely is possible for the Kindle to phone home to Amazon and let it know what you have loaded.
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What commands can be given in the Kindle's search box?
The commands ~ds and ;411 worked for my kindle paperwhite 3. The ;411 command even measures the temperature of the display! To re-enable screensaver for ~ds command, you must reboot the kindle ...
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How are Kindle standard pages calculated?
This can be really hard to estimate without narrowing your question down a bit.
But I just measured a text-heavy book to determine:
Mobile Phone App
852 characters 26 lines
On a small e-ink ...
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How are Kindle standard pages calculated?
There is a plugin for Calibre called Count Pages.
It can estimate page and word counts for a given ebook, using various algorithms, and one of them is an APNX estimation based on Amazon Kindle.
You ...
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Can't download ebook from Amazon to my PC
After several hours of frustration and searching in internet (seriously, after like 3 hours), suddenly I remember the console. Hit F12 to open Chrome console and what a surprise: an error:
Mixed ...
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What commands can be given in the Kindle's search box?
";dm" gets you the device logs, checked on kindle paperwhite 1, very useful
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Are Tor Ebooks DRM Free?
I have purchased several Tor books on Google Play that are DRM-free and they work perfectly. Before buying, look for the "This content is DRM free" label in the book details. Then, after purchase, ...
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Cannot highlight text on my Kindle Paperwhite using a sample ebook
I think that's by design. Samples are basically marketing material and Amazon doesn't want to provide full functionality of a Kindle eBook with them, in hopes to give users another plus factor to buy ...
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Can I use Kindle to read research papers?
Actually you can have a try on this service I made recently. It will optimize the layout into a kindle readable format using k2pdfopt, with additional two column paper format support.
Link: http://...
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Can you use a Kindle without an Amazon account?
Yes, you can use a Kindle (at least Kindles that are several years old) without an Amazon account. I got a secondhand Kindle that is probably ~4-5 years old. I connected to wifi to deregister the ...
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Can one use two Amazon accounts on one Kindle?
My answer shouldn't be treated as definitive, but I did google around a bit.
One youtuber claims that he can access books from two accounts by logging off the device with his original account, ...
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Can eBooks deleted from Kindle Cloud be 'repurchased' for free?
It's probably rather late for this answer, but Amazon customer service reps do have the ability to get back books you've accidentally deleted.
In my case, I was deleting old personal docs, got ...
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How to download & transfer from Kindle or Amazon.com to PC
The documented way is to use the Kindle PC app and download the book inside that. The file will end up on your PC and only readable in the Kindle. The current versions download the book as a .kfx file ...
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When an Amazon account contains more than 1023 purchased Kindle books, how do you access the books beyond the 1023rd book?
This sounds like a limitation of the software, so you probably won't be able to get around it from the device.
First, I recommend reporting this as a bug to Amazon. Don't expect them to fix it right ...
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how to view the download queue for a Kindle
[Note: I know this thread is old, but I found it via a web search and have an answer for people in the future who find it that way as well.]
There does not appear to be a built-in app, menu item, or ...
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collection shows as empty and refuses to populate -- not syncing properly
I think I see the problem (or one problem at least).
I have a massive set of collections on the kindle app for android. (Like 50 collections holding 2000 or more ebooks).
But when I install the ...
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If you purchased this item from Amazon, delete the item and download it from the Cloud
Most likely you downloaded a partial file or it was corrupted somehow. Just delete it from your device and try again. (Alternatively, remove it by going to Manage Your Content and Devices.
Don't ...
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If you purchased this item from Amazon, delete the item and download it from the Cloud
I had the same problem. I contacted Amazon to solve it. The problem was a software update. Apparently, my kindle did not update vis wifi, so I updated it via manually via their website.
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Can't find books I have bought
Go to Manage your content and devices and verify that these ebooks are listed. If you have uploaded content instead of purchasing them, I may have to change the dropdown from Books to Docs.
Piece ...
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Typical time needed to transfer books to Kindle 10th Paperwhite via email
I have had anything that resembles a commercial book be silently rejected, while clearly non-commercial documents (personal documents, scraped web serial novels) go through successfully (in about ...
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