![]() At the top center is a box with the title "Internet Archive's Google Books" and the number of items currently available for that set, currently 903,273. You'll see, on their main Google Books page, lots of interesting features. THE INTERNET ARCHIVE's Free Google Books - downloadable in multiple formats (direct to Kindle too). Play with the software a bit.ĪLMOST ONE MILLION FREE GOOGLE BOOKS ARE ALREADY IN KINDLE FORMATĪnd ready for download, thanks to an amazing resource: So, yes, despite news stories and story commenters who still post that the free Google books are not accessible on the Kindle, they are, with this one added step, but it's also great to be able to customize so much of the layout if you want. I did one and moved it to the Kindle DX and it looks great.Īlso, Calibre gives you the option to optimize your converted file for a specific Kindle model. But there's no need to do any of that.Īt the top are choices to "Edit meta information: as well as "Convert E-books." Follow the instructions, and then press the 'OK' button and the conversion will take a few minutes. If there is no Table of Contents you can 'force' Calibre to create one. The ability to change the "meta information" is nice - so you can have names and authors as you like them. Hovering over anything will usually bring a help tip.Īccepting defaults is fine. On the LEFT will be your choices for set-up when you're converting a document. IF you download an ePub file, then it's time for If the words on the PDF are too small or if you want to use the Kindle features mentioned, then get the ePub file. If you have a Kindle DXG, you might prefer to just get the PDF. GETTING THE FREE GOOGLE BOOK IN EPUB at Google's " Best of the Free" page. ![]() If you don't already have this free software, created and maintained by Kovid Goyal, download Calibre here. This blog article focuses on converting the ePub file-format to a Kindle-readable one (Mobi or Prc). Many use it already for organizing computer records of their Kindle books or for retrieving combinations of newspaper feeds for their Kindles (not as easily navigated as the paid subscrptions). There are currently at least three popular free tools that can convert ePub files to Kindle-compatible MOBI files: (1) mobigen.exe (not intuitive) (2) Mobipocket Reader 6.2 (loses some of the styling) and (3) Calibre, which has a nice interface, is easy to use, works with pc's and Macs, and gets the best results. The ePub file converted to Kindle Mobi format will also allow the Kindle features of highlighting, note-adding, font-size adjustments and a better book-Search process, and the converted book will be included in search results when the full Kindle is searched for key words. The added ePub versions of the free Google books are better to work with than PDFs because they involve text-reflow capabilities instead of a focus on keeping a page exactly as originally laid out, giving us words too tiny on small screens.Īlso, with the ePub books, Google has done that text-reflow for us, which should bring more reliable ePub-to-MOBI conversions for e-books with complex layouts. (Many don't know that the Kindle 2, 3 ("Keyboard"), DX and of course coming Touch models can read PDFs direct - but this isn't ideal on the 6" screens.) Google offers over a million free e-books in EPUB format as well as in PDF format. HOWEVER, almost a million of these free Google books are already in Kindle format and ready for simple downloads, thanks to Internet Archive, which will be covered right after the "Convert ePub to Kindle" section. ![]() You can also use the site to have it done for you for free but only for the free Google books. ![]() You can use Calibre to easily convert any free ePub file to Kindle format. USING CALIBRE TO CONVERT EPUB TO KINDLE ("MOBI" or "PRC") FORMAT If you'd like to see how easy it is to convert a free ePub book, go to Google's " Best of the Free" page and select one. Google now combines its free Google books with the ones they sell in the the newish Google Book Store. The conversion is actually easy to do, and although we can now easily get free Kindle-versions of these Google books, it's good to know how to do this for any ePub book that doesn't have a form of digital-rights-protection or management (DRM) placed on it. (The earlier blog article was updated often for Google-book changes and lost its basic focus.) I'm updating an older post on converting free ePub books from Google to work on the Kindle. EPUB TO KINDLE - Example: Free Google Books
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