Hi Neal and others. I've been following this thread and agree that Kindle books downloaded directly to one's iDevice are not easily transferable to your PC. At least I've not been able to figure out how to do it after pouring over iTunes. There is a workaround that should enable you to download your purchased books to your PC. You can install the Kindle for PC program which you can get here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/pc/download Once that is installed, the next time you purchase a Kindle book using your computer's browser, you should have a drop-down box option to save the purchased book to either your iDevice or your Kindle for PC. On my Windows XP system, when I choose Kindle for PC, the book is saved on my computer in a folder called My Kindle Content under My Documents. I realize this is an extra step and one I wish were unnecessary, but it does provide an option for saving a Kindle book on your computer. Alan Lemly -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neal Ewers Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 1:51 PM To: [email protected] 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 <mailto:[email protected]> 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? 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