I stopped using Amazon a while back, but it was where I got all my books for a long time. I do thriftbooks mostly now, and try to buy directly from publishers when it’s a newer book, but I’m always interested in finding new spots to cop some sweet books.

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    7 months ago

    It can take a few goes to set up for some reason.

    On Android, if you download a PDF and ‘share’ it with your Kindle app, it will open a ‘Send to Kindle’ page.

    Click ‘PDF Options’ then ‘Make layout adjustable’.

    Toggle ‘Add to your library’ ‘On’.

    Then ‘send’.

    Voila, PDF -> ePub/mobi.

    It’s not perfect but its better than squinting at tiny PDF text on a smart phone screen.

    Apparently you can do this from the web, too: https://ebookfriendly.com/new-features-added-to-send-to-kindle-2023/

    • roux [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      Hold up, you can send and convert at the same time? Can you do this from a desktop or is this one of the few things that Android and Kindle can agree on?

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        7 months ago

        Yes, I did it by accident last week lol.

        I think that link above has some instructions for doing it on desktop through your browser.

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          7 months ago

          I didn’t see anything about converting from desktop directly but it’s fine. I have all 3 of the other options working now. I did convert a .pdf to a .epub and send it but it messed up the formatting a ton, like put lines of bullets points below their respective bullets and such. I’d like to figure that out since I sometimes find books only as pdfs and they don’t work very well on my 6" screen lol.