Kindle app+.PRC(mobipocket)=Pure win!

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I have been trying to find a decent way to read my collection of .PRC ebooks. I have buckets of these from over the years using mobipocket on both old windows mobile devices and my n95's.

Well I stumbled on a simple solution which really excited me - please forgive me if this has been posted before, I might have missed it and been struggling needlessly!

Install the amazon kindle app

Oh I love amazon.

Not only can you buy all new books through the app, which works very well. (I Bought an Ian M Banks book I didnt have for like a godiver or something) but you can copy your old PRC files into the kindle folder (it gets created after install..)

Launch the app, then they magically appear in your book list!

Whoop!

I am staggered! - I wonder how many I can put in there before it crashes.......?

Ahh nice find. I've been converting them to epub, slow but works with adiko. Amazon did buy Mobipocket out ages ago and heard they was going to kill it off. Guess they didn't, thank god.

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Originally Posted by yarod_g14

I have been trying to find a decent way to read my collection of .PRC ebooks. I have buckets of these from over the years using mobipocket on both old windows mobile devices and my n95's.

Well I stumbled on a simple solution which really excited me - please forgive me if this has been posted before, I might have missed it and been struggling needlessly!

Install the amazon kindle app

Oh I love amazon.

Not only can you buy all new books through the app, which works very well. (I Bought an Ian M Banks book I didnt have for like a godiver or something) but you can copy your old PRC files into the kindle folder (it gets created after install..)

Launch the app, then they magically appear in your book list!

Whoop!

I am staggered! - I wonder how many I can put in there before it crashes.......?

YESSS!!! thank you for sharing! i was trying so hard to figure it out! it doesnt do the kindle azw format tho. but hey This is GREAT!

I have installed Kindle, but i don't find the kindle folder...

Folder:

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It may be that you need to actually get a book first, I wouldnt have thought so though. I would recommend actually manually creating this folder on the root of your internal SD.

So plug it in via USB - select Mass storage mode - mount dem discs

Then manually create the folder on the first drive that apears, should be internal.

Originally Posted by yarod_g14

It may be that you need to actually get a book first, I wouldnt have thought so though. I would recommend actually manually creating this folder on the root of your internal SD.

So plug it in via USB - select Mass storage mode - mount dem discs

Then manually create the folder on the first drive that apears, should be internal.

It works! Thanks

Hi, I've tried the trick, but it seems that it doesn't work for all prc files. I have some médical ebooks with a search feature in them, and kindle doesn't recognize them although they appear in the list after copying them into the right folder.

xcuse my question but how to name that folder on the internal sd

sdcard\kindle ???

Originally Posted by bapsack

xcuse my question but how to name that folder on the internal sd

sdcard\kindle ???

yeah i also want to know how to name folder on th sdcard
" sdcard/kindle" ?????
thxb4

Thats right, on the root of your internal SD, simply create a folder called "kindle"

Not your external SD card!