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ePub to Kindle Fire Converter

There is large number of formats available for ebooks in the market, out of which ePub is one of the most popular and most preferred format for both publishers and authors. Unfortunately Kindle Fire doesn't support ePub format, therefore you can't read ePub on Kindle Fire directly, you need to convert ePub to Kindle Fire format. In order to do it, you need a special conversion software.

And the tool you can use to do that is Calibre. Calibre is first of all an ebook manager but it is also one of the best ebook conversion tools going around. It can convert eBooks among a wide range of formats, including converting ePub ebooks to Kindle Fire format.

Firstly, let's see what eBook formats Kindle Fire supports:
AZW, TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, DOC, DOCX.

Calibre is totally free and can be downloaded from the Calibre website: http://calibre-ebook.com/. And Calibre is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux.

ePub to Kindle Fire Conversion Guide

Step 1. Just launch Calibre and it will come up with your list of books. Click on a book and press the Convert E-books button.

Step 2. When the new screen appears, you'll see two drop-down boxes at the top-left and top-right of the window. Set the Input Format to EPUB and the Output Format to MOBI. Click the OK button and the ebook will be converted.

Step 3. To read ePub on Kindle Fire, you just then need to load the converted file(s) into your Kindle Fire device using its USB cable provided by Amazon and you should now be able to read your EPUB (now MOBI) ebook on your Kindle Fire. This process works for all Kindle devices, such as Kindle touch, Kindle 3, etc.

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