Please can some help me with a simple problem which I cannot solve. I have recently purchased a new Amazon Fire Tablet 16GB. I have used a USB lead to transfer a few folders of photos over to the main storage of my Fire Tablet. However, I am unable to view the photos on my device. There's a standard app on the device called Prime Photos. However, when I select Albums on that, I cannot see my photos. I contact Amazon several times but they want me to use the Cloud, even though I have specifically said I want to view my photos offline and want nothing to do with the Cloud. My photos are definitely on the device but I cannot see them.
Transferring and viewing photos on the old Kindle Fire Tablets was extremely easy. However, this is proving a struggle on my new Fire. There must be a simple solution.
Any help would be appreciated.
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So, I own the NC. It rules as a tablet, but as an e-reader, I love, love, love, love, love my Kindle. It's lighter, viewable in the sunlight better, etc.... Strictly as an e-reader it's better. The problem I have is that I do sometimes read on the NC at night just because the screen is backlit. This doesn't cause any problems when I'm reading Kindle books as they seemlessly sync between both devices with no problems.
The issue I run into is with books that I sideload. I've got a library of books that I obtained from 3rd parties. I can easily sideload them with Calibre on either device with no problems. I can't find a way to sync them though and I'm not sure if there is one. If I read 100 pages on the NC, then I have to figure out what that corresponds to on the Kindle and vice versa. Any ideas? Part of me makes me think this won't work just because the Kindle obviously can't run any apps. I can email documents to my Kindle and get the books to my Kindle that way, but I can't access those documents from the Kindle app on the NC so it's not a solution for me. Any ideas?
I wanted to do the same thing.. followed these instructions & working fine. Won't sync highlights or notes.. only the location.
wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Sync_with_non-Amazon_eBooks
The location is really all I'm looking for. I am definitely going to try this this weekend. I've got over 200 side loaded books so I'm not gonna do this for all of them obviously, but for the ones on my reading list, this is so worth it if it works.
Edit: It looks like this is designed to work between the PC app and the Kindle. Will it also work between the Android Kindle app and the Kindle? What folder do I need to drop my .mobi books in?
It syncs the location both ways fine all devices. You just need to edit the exth type on the mobi file before you sideload it to your kindle/nc.
I don't use calibre to sideload, I just use it to convert epubs to mobi. I import the epub, convert to mobi, then export the mobi. From there, I edit the exth type, and keep that edited mobi in my own directory structure... dragging & dropping the file into my devices. For android devices, there's a kindle directory on the sdcard, and on kindle, drop it in the 'documents' folder.
I imagine you can reimport the mobi file to calibre after you edit it to sideload it that way, but someone else would know better...
Wanted to backup my amazon video downloads from my kindle fire to my pc so that I could download other owned videos without having to redownload the entire video again if I wanted it back on my device. I was looking around the device and tried to find an answer on google and couldn't find anything.
My wife just got a Lumia 920 last week, and she mostly loves it. (She's coming from iOS, so her expectations are pretty high.) She's impressed with the GPS, with the Nokia streaming music service, with how responsive most of the interface is... but she hates the Kindle app.
It gets terrible reviews on the Store. It crashes, loses sync with the server, content just disappears... it's unusable. Is there any alternative here? She's not too big on the official Facebook app either, but at least in that case she can use the web version.
Well, there's plenty of e-reader apps if that's all she needs. Fiction Book Reader is my preferred one (reads both epub and mobi/prc, is quick and very good at remembering location, etc.) but I don't have any other devices I'm trying to keep it synched with. Odd about the troubles with the Kindle app, though; I used it all the time on my WP7 device (sideloading the books, since I'm not a fan of the store's DRM, but this required file system access) and had no significant troubles.
I was wondering if there is anyway to add shortcut to kindle app? not kindle books or newstand so that reading pdf's would be easier (for my grandma).
Right now I can send some books via email and they sow up on main screen but I would like to go into app and select which book to read like on regular android. Maybe there is some app to do that?
EDIT: ok found a way to have books in Books app but they need to be on internal anyway to make it work to read books from SD-CARD? internal has like 5gb space left and ext sd-card 32gb.. even if I send the books to the email they do still somehow get saved on internal sd.
patt2k said:
I was wondering if there is anyway to add shortcut to kindle app? not kindle books or newstand so that reading pdf's would be easier (for my grandma).
Right now I can send some books via email and they sow up on main screen but I would like to go into app and select which book to read like on regular android. Maybe there is some app to do that?
EDIT: ok found a way to have books in Books app but they need to be on internal anyway to make it work to read books from SD-CARD? internal has like 5gb space left and ext sd-card 32gb.. even if I send the books to the email they do still somehow get saved on internal sd.
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Please share how.
I've been putting PDF files on my device every which way I can, but they never show up under books.
They do on my older Kindle Fire HD, but not on the Amazon Fire under Fire OS 5.
The only way I can view them is to go to docs, which gives a fairly cluttered view.
I did email it with "convert" and it aappeared, but the conversion was dreadful and totally destroyed the document.
I also tried to convert to mobi with Calibre. Same poor conversion.
So if you know how to get a PDF into the Books section, please let me know.
Hi, I accidentally deleted photos and videos from a Kindle Fire 7. I read online that using the program Recuva on a laptop and connecting the Fire to it could help me recover them. I connected the Fire tablet, but I'm running into the issue that the Recuva program isn't detecting the tablet. Is there any way to fix this issue?
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Hi, I accidentally deleted photos and videos from a Kindle Fire 7. I read online that using the program Recuva on a laptop and connecting the Fire to it could help me recover them. I connected the Fire tablet, but I'm running into the issue that the Recuva program isn't detecting the tablet. Is there any way to fix this issue?
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You must have to backup your photos and videos using Google Photos, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or SD card.
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You must have to backup your photos and videos using Google Photos, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or SD card.
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But there isn't a way to retrieve the files from the tablet's free space as you normally would on a computer? Specifically using the program Recuva, since the other apps on Google play require rooting my device, which I rather not do. It seems as if it's possible to do it, but I need to find a way to have my tablet recognized as a drive on my computer. Assigned a letter, in other words?