Kindle Cloud Help

[wide_worlds_joy]

Okay, i just got given a couple books for review by the author. Problem is that they are set up for Kindle, and I don't have one. It's stored at my "Kindle Cloud" storage site, and I'd really like to download them to my local PC in a format that Calibre can read, or, most preferably, a PDF file.

Anyone have instructions on how to do this?

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[alexseanchai]

I don't know about Calibre or PDF, but there's Kindle for PC, which is free, or Kindle Cloud Reader, which shouldn't need downloading at all. So you can at least read them.

[elf]

Is the "Kindle Cloud" different from the "Amazon Cloud?" Amazon Cloud allows you to download, and then you can throw them into Calibre and convert to whichever format you prefer.

If Calibre won't read them (because they're DRMd), send the author a note requesting a book that works in a format you can read.

[wide_worlds_joy]

Apparently it is different. Amazon Cloud is a cloud storage drive, 5GB, letting you access music, pics and documents from any PC.

Kindle Cloud is a version specific to the Kindle Books, and the two don't talk.

I got the kindle books down to my PC. That's good. I can't get them any further. I hate not being able to just download the silly things to my PC in a format that is compatable with my DS reader (using Moonshell) so I can read them anywhere. It's silly. But I *can* read them, as stated.

If anyone had instructions to get them from the Kindle Cloud or to the Amazon cloud app, I'd appreceiate it.

[elf]

Kindle Cloud is apparently html-5 based, and designed to not let you extract things from it. (Although it works if you lose your online connection, so the files are in your hard drive *somewhere.*)

I'm in the camp that says "tell author to provide books in a format convenient for you, or refuse to review." But I'm a hardcore holdout against mobi format and cloud-dependent activity.

A couple of years back, Scalzi got cards for ARCs that had DRM and declined to review them. His response, in part:

I have to confess to not really seeing the upside for me of having to validate all sorts of various machines in order to look at a book you wish to publicize, and to be entirely blunt about it, offering up a DRM’d book that explodes in 30 days has the subtext of “we really don’t trust you not to put this into a torrent,” which annoys me, even though I am sure you don’t mean it that way.

Which is to say: They certainly have the book available in formats that Calibre will work with. If they don't trust you not to distribute it around the web, why do they care what good things you'd say about it?

[inkstone]

Yeah, tbh, if an author wants me to review books for them, they should be sending them to me in a format I can read. (Namely, they should ask what format is my preference before sending away.)