How Kindle Recognizes Files

Monday, November 19th, 2007

There has been a lot of talk about Amazon’s new wireless reading device and what file types it can or cannot read.

The Amazon documentation explains how Kindle recognizes files:

Kindle will only recognize and display files on your Kindle Home screen if the file type is natively supported and located in the appropriate folder on your Kindle or optional SD memory card. Also, items purchased from the Kindle store will only be recognized by a Kindle if it is registered to the Amazon.com account used to make the purchase. See Adjusting Your Kindle Settings for information on registering your Kindle.

Here are the file types and locations that Kindle will recognize automatically:

Folder Recognized File Types

documents Kindle (.azw), text (.txt), Mobi (.mobi*, .prc*)

music MP3 music format (.mp3)

Audible Audible.com (.aa)

* Files containing digital rights management software will not be readable.

If you look carefully, you’ll note that it reads Mobi files. What are Mobi files?

Mobipocket is an ebook format (What is an eBook ?) designed to provide you the best reading experience on any PDA or smartphone: Windows Mobile, Palm, Symbian (Nokia series 60, series 80, series 90 , UIQ 2, UIQ 3), Blackberry, Pocket-PC and of course Windows PC are the most common platforms we already support. Find more informations at the Mobipocket eBook Reader presentation page…

Find the titles you want:
Mobipocket is the largest online ebookstore with more than 50 000 ebooks available for sell. Just make your selection: browse the categories to find yours, find an author or just get a novel, a dictionary, or Medical ebooks, or even eLearning ebooks…

Read ebooks:
Download the Mobipocket desktop Reader for your PC, install it, run it and connect your mobile device. It will automatically install the Mobipocket Reader on it! Then simply do “send to my device” on the ebooks you like in order to read them on your prefered platform.
You don’t have a PC ? This is not a problem, just install manually the Mobipocket Reader on your PDA and put manually the ebooks you download from the Mobipocket website.

Create ebooks:
Download the Mobipocket Creator on your PC, and create personal content to take along with you.

Publish ebooks:
Please visit the Welcome page for ebook publishers in order to get more information.

The key is that the free Mobipocket Creator software allows you to create ebooks from Word docs and PDF files:

Import Word and Text documents

Import Adobe® PDF files into your publication with the powerful PDF to HTML built-in converter

Once you’ve produced the Mobi files that the Kindle can read, you simply transfer them over from your PC to the Kindle’s documents folder, and it should be able to read them.

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	Folder	Recognized File Types
	documents	Kindle (.azw), text (.txt), Mobi (.mobi, .prc)
	music	MP3 music format (.mp3)
	Audible	Audible.com (.aa)
* Files containing digital rights management software will not be readable.