Once that wheel stops spinning, your book has been converted. (From this window, you can also apply changes to the book’s settings-for example, you can force text to be aligned left rather than justified, and the Kindle will honor this choice!)Ĭalibre will begin converting the book, and you’ll see a spinning circle in the bottom-right corner of the window next to the “Jobs” label. Converting is a multi-step process: First select the book in the Calibre library window, then click on the Convert Books item in the app’s toolbar, choose a new output format from the pop-up menu in the top right corner (I choose MOBI), and click OK. You can add a book to the Calibre library by dragging it in. Instead, I use it to convert books into different formats. While Calibre fancies itself a sort of iTunes for ebooks, I don’t use it as a catalog. It’s a program that’s hard to love, because it’s a cross-platform open-source project and it really shows in the interface. So when I get an epub book I’d like to read, I need to convert that book before I can load it on my Kindle.įor this (and many other ebook related tasks), I use the free tool Calibre.

Instead, Kindle supports the Mobipocket format and its Kindle-specific AZW successors. I like reading books on my Kindle, but one of the drawbacks of the Kindle platform is that it doesn’t support the epub book format.

Note: This story has not been updated for several years. Calibre: How I put epub books on my Kindle

Open epub on kindle