Kindle Skills - Manual Download

On the Road Again...Traveling with your Kindle is one of the easiest things to do. You have room on your little machine for enough books to keep someone occupied for a lifetime (or two, or three). So load it up with your favorites and new books you would love to read before you leave.

If you are on an extended trip, you may need to take your laptop with you as an additional resource. It can come in handy if you have a nice Internet connection at the hotel, or wherever you happen to be, but your Kindle can't connect for one reason or another. Connect to Amazon with your laptop, shop till you drop in the Kindle store, but instead of sending the purchases to your Kindle, click the little drop down and choose Transfer via Computer.

You will see a new window appear, and you will need to specify which device you plan to transfer the download to (because each book is specially coded for each Kindle it is being used on?).

You will see a .prc file appear on your Desktop (or wherever you have your downloads sent to). Hook up your Kindle and copy this file to the Documents folder on it. When you disconnect the Kindle from your computer and turn it on again, your book will be right there. Ready to read and enjoy!

Safely Remove Reminder: Remember... don't just jerk that USB cable to free your Kindle from the computer or Mac. Do the safely remove thing. 

PC users: Click the Start button, then click Computer and look for your Kindle. Right click on the Kindle drive and choose Eject. 

Mac users: To safely remove your Kindle from your Mac, drag the icon to the trash. You will see the pointer change to an eject button when you have it over the trash bin... drop it and the icon will disappear, indicating you can safely disconnect the USB cable.

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