

Your Kindle should now show a USB plugin and the words “You can now transfer files from your computer to Kindle.” Step 2) Plug in in your Kindle Fire to your computer with your old USB cord. If not, review previous comments until this step is accomplished. Step 1) Do you have your ebooks downloaded and are they in the Documents/Digital Editions folder? If yes, proceed to Step 2. You can sideload books by emailing them to yourself, transferring them into the books or docs folder via a USB cord, or downloading them from your personal cloud.ĭecem 10:17 Leesa First, you are trying to copy ebooks from your laptop to your Fire. It will also read those DRM’ed ARCs from NetGalley. It will read DRM’ed ePubs including those you have purchased at Harlequin, Kobo, Sony or downloaded from your library. Tap it and it should bring up an install screen like above.īrian has reviewed the Mantano Reader app here. Or hit the name of your Kindle in your menu bar and find the APK you just downloaded. When the item is done downloading, it will either give you a screen like this wherein you will press install: If you are on your Kindle Fire, here are some following links: However, you can email yourself apks or simply search via the web and download the files. My preferred method is to download on my computer and load them into a dropbox folder. Brian wrote up a great explanation of installing APKs here. You can download File Expert and/or ES File Explorer in the Amazon App Store.ĪPKs are the Android application files. You will need a file explorer for your device. Go to Device and then “Allow Installation of Applications from Unknown Sources” to ON: Tap on the “setting” icon in the menu bar at the top: Your Kindle Fire is set up so that it will not allow you to install apps from an “unknown source”. If you plan to use this how to guide, my advice is to load this post on your Kindle Fire and bookmark it until you have installed all your favorite apps. Mantano App is a great app because you can access OPDS catalogs you may have created based on instructions here or read your ePubs purchased nearly anywhere (except BN, you’ll need the Nook App for that) and the epubs you’ve downloaded from your library.

Thus you simply need to install your favorite ePub reading app to be able to read ePubs. It shows up in the content carousel at the top and you can favorite the app as well. The neat thing is that Amazon treats these sideloaded apps just like an app you purchased from the Amazon App Store. While Amazon Kindle Fire runs a forked Android system and is designed so that readers only install what is in its Amazon App Store, you can easily sideload nearly any Android App. Jane Ebooks epub / Kindle Fire 42 Comments

NovemYes, You Can Read ePubs on the Kindle Fire
