That’ll include a list of the Kindle devices and/or apps that Amazon knows are associated with your account. If, say, you also have a smartphone and you want your file to show up on the phone, you should do the ‘Send to Kindle’ option. So which should you do? It depends on a) whether you have wifi handy, b) whether you care whether the file you’re working with shows up under ‘Books’ or ‘Docs’, and c) whether you want to be able to sync that file over to any other Kindle app you might be running. I found Vengeance parked under ‘Books’, after I tapped on ‘On Device’. I stuck the Vengeance MOBI straight into the ‘kindle’ directory, and then went over to the Kindle app.

One of these was the ‘kindle’ directory, notable because it had the Amazon icon on it. What happened when I did that was that ES File Explorer popped up, with a list of directories to choose from.

It’s super-useful, and it was one of the first apps mentioned to me when I first started playing with Android and put out a call for recommendations for apps.Īmazon’s own Send to Kindle for Android page recommends this app as one of the ways you can sideload stuff to the Kindle app on that platform, so I tried that, too, with the MOBI for Vengeance of the Hunter. If you’re not familiar with this app, it basically gives you access to the file system on an Android device, similar to Explorer in Windows and Finder on the Mac. This is because I have ES File Explorer installed on the tablet. Take another look at that previous screenshot and you’ll see that there’s an option on that list reading “ES Save to…” However, it’s important to note that Valor showed up under ‘Docs’, NOT ‘Books’, and I had to tap on ‘Cloud’ to see Valor there.īut what if you don’t happen to have wifi immediately handy, and don’t want to have to send the file up to Amazon’s servers and back again just to read it on the same device? It took a few minutes before the Kindle app then said “OH HEY LOOK you have a thing to download”, and pulled it back down again for me. Once I tapped on “Send to Kindle”, Dropbox promptly started uploading the file to Amazon’s servers.

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