On my pc, it stores what I assume are my books in documents, in a folder called my kindle content. Keep in mind that these files are epub files with Amazon's digital rights management applied. So, I guess even the titles are encrypted. But this folder is about 36 meg on my computer, and I think I had 6 or 8 books, I don't remember the exact number right now. I assume these are my books.
As I wrote in an earlier message, all these books were in the cloud when I installed the iPhone app, some of them I had bought a couple years ago. I don't know how long they stay there. Being that I don't know of a way to transfer what I assume are my backed up books from the pc to the phone, I guess I would have to use the pc app to read them if they no longer were in the cloud the next time I want to read them. Perhaps, write or call Amazon and find out how long they will stay in the cloud, and let us know what they say. Arnold Schmidt ----- Original Message ----- From: Neal Ewers To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 10:59 PM Subject: RE: How do I keep a permanent copy of the books I download to the iPhone Well, Yes, I have the PC Kindle reader and it is very nice and accessible. But the book it accesses is not in any place I can find on my computer. I simply purchased it and it is on the cloud and on my device. I don't know if the book on my computer is really on the cloud or if it is on the computer. If it's on the computer, it is hidden. I have done a total computer search for all possible Kindle book file endings and it does not appear. So, making a backup copy of it is impossible. But, back to the computer version of the app. It is very nice and it syncs up with where you left off when reading on the device. Neal Neal From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arnold Schmidt Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 7:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How do I keep a permanent copy of the books I download to the iPhone You can save books on your pc, and read them, if you install the accessible kindle for pc app. Be sure to install the accessible for pc app, as opposed to the regular one. You will know it is the correct one if it it is some 200 meg, as compared to maybe 20 meg for the regular app. Arnold Schmidt ----- Original Message ----- From: Neal Ewers To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 2:51 PM Subject: RE: How do I keep a permanent copy of the books I download to the iPhone Alan, thanks for the tip about iBooks. That strengthens my theory that the inability to do this with the Kindle app is exactly what either Amazon, Apple, or both wanted to do. How silly. You purchase a book and it is totally tied to some cloud some place and cannot be put on your computer. I'm not sure the issue here, in that the books are assigned a code given your sine in credentials thus you can't share them. And that's not why I want to have access to them anyway. I may contact Amazon and ask why this is done. Yes, the Kindle device itself will allow certain books to be read aloud, but I don't believe you can do this with all books. I don't believe the iPhone App has that limitation, but I am not positive about that. I am reading Harry Potter, and I'm guessing that would not be a book that one can read with speech on the actual Kindle. I should check that out. Neal From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Paganelli Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How do I keep a permanent copy of the books I download to the iPhone Neal, the iBooks app for iPhone lets you do that. I have the app and it's totally accessible. It creates a folder within iTunes, iTunes Media, books. Any books you buy or download from the apple store go into that folder. You can do what you will with your books. And, if you download other books from other sorceress like txt format etc, you can drop those too into that folder. When you then sync your phone with iTunes, those books you dropped into the books folder get synced to your iPhone. Note: iBooks does not read .EPUB (Kindle) book format books. However, the Kindle book reader does read most all popular formats. I've downloaded the free Kindle app and it doesn't seem to let you keep your books on your computer unless I'm missing something. It looks to me like Amazon was just giving in to the demand for accessibility of Kindle books by iPhone users. The actual Kindle hardware is accessible. It has been so for some time. I bought my daughter who loves to read a Kindle several years ago for Christmas. One day she called me up on the phone and said, hey dad, listen to this and I heard the book being read by a screen reader. They have improved quite a bit on that and all kindles today have a text to speech reading option. The Kindle is a good book reading device and very limited as a computer. HTH ----- Original Message ----- From: Neal Ewers To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 8:48 AM Subject: How do I keep a permanent copy of the books I download to the iPhone Hi, If I download a book directly to my iPhone, is there any way I can keep it permanently. If I delete if from the phone, it will likely delete it from iTunes assuming I have synced it. Am I better off downloading books directly to my computer where I can place the ones I have read in a particular folder? Or, are there other ways to make sure I have a permanent copy of the book? Example, is there a place in iTunes where the book is stored such that I could make a copy of it? Thanks much. Neal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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