How to Easily Convert Kindle to PDF? When you purchase an eBook from Amazon Books, you may encounter the issue of your non-Kindle eReader (such as Nook, Kobo Vox, Sony Reader, and others) being unable to open it. Before we delve into the solution, let's briefly discuss eBook formats. As the global leader in eBooks, Kindle books primarily support formats like AZW, KFX, AZW3, PRC, MOBI, and TPZ. However, many other eReaders do not support these formats but instead work with PDF and EPUB formats. So, if you wish to read Kindle books on alternative eReaders, you'll need to convert Kindle AZW, TPZ, PRC, or MOBI files to PDF or EPUB.
First Things First: Download Kindle Books to Your Computer or eReader
Prior to converting Kindle to PDF, the first step is to download the Kindle titles you've purchased either to your Kindle eReader or your computer using the Kindle desktop app. I've covered this point in detail in the guide "The Ultimate Guide to Download Kindle Books".
Once the Kindle books have been successfully downloaded, you can proceed with the conversion to the PDF format using the steps below.
| No. | kindle to pdf converter tools | free or paid | Cons |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Epubor Ultimate (Editor's pick) | Paid (with free trial) | paid software |
| 2 | Calibre | free | need dedrm plugin intalled | 3 | kindle to pdf online, zamzar | free | Drmed kindle books not supported |
Method 1. Convert Kindle to PDF Windows and Mac with Epubor Ultimate
In contrast to other methods, I highly recommend using Epubor Ultimate as it is the easiest one and user-friendly. It combines the DRM removal and formats conversion perfectly. The most important is, you will get your Kindle books converted just with a simple click. It's a one-stop solution to convert Kindle (drm) books to PDF.
Step 1. Download and install this ultimate ebook converter.
Notice: To use the free trial, no need to input any code, just close the registration window to continue with the trial.
Step 2. Load or import your Kindle books.
Epubor ultimate works with the latest Kindle for PC/Mac. Ensure your Kindle books has been downloaded. Click 'Kindle' tab to load your downloaded kindle books, and drag them to right to remove drm.
As the image shows above, books added, kindle drm removed. This step is super easy, right?
If your books are downladed to Fire tablet, or Kindle for Android, you want to convert kindle app books to PDF quickly, please use Kindle desktop to sync them and download them to your computer. Downloaded files will be saved in local "My Kindle Content" folder, please check where are kindle books stored on PC/Mac.
Step 3. Convert kindle book to PDF
From the "Convert to.." selection please choose PDF as the target format, and then click the button again, the conversion will begin soon.
Pros:
- Easier to use than other methods, clean interface.
- Remove drm from Kindle AZW, KFX, AZW books fast.
- And epubor provides 6*24 online customer service.
- Handle drm-ed and drm-free kindle books.
- Support 203 published Kindle books.
- Free to update.
Cons: Paid software, but you can use the free trial version first to decide whether to use or not.
Method 2. Convert Kindle books to PDF with Calibre
Calibre is a super star in eBook software area, you can use it as a free Kindle to PDF converter. It allows you to convert the formats of your books to another one.
Calibre offers you several versions on different operating systems, including Windows, Mac, Linux and portable. We record the video on windows, but you can also convert Kindle to PDF on Mac with the same method.
Step 1 Download Calibre and select a proper version for your PC. Here we select "Windows". Make sure your Kindle books have been copied or downloaded on your computer.
Step 2 Install and launch Calibre.
Please install Calibre deDRM removal plugin to remove drm from your kindle books at first, otherwise your kindle books cannot be converted successfully.
Step 3 Click “Add books” button to add your Kindle books, then they will be listed on the center zone of the screen.You can drag and drop your books here as well.
Step 4 Select the books that you prepare to convert. Also, you can click "Edit metadata" button to customize the cover images, title, authors and other metadata of your eBooks.
Step 5 Click "Convert books” button. The ebook converting window will pop. Select "PDF" as output format and click "OK". Calibre will start to convert books.
The status zone at the bottom of the right corner “jobs: 2" will show the progress of conversion.
Step 6 When the status turns to "Jobs: 0", the conversion is completed. Click the status zone to get the details of the conversion on the pop-up window.
Step 7 Go back to the main screen. If the books have been converted from Kindle to PDF successfully, the "Formats" will contain both the original one and the converted one.
Click "Click to open", you will get your PDF books on the pop-up window.
Now you have completed converting Kindle books to PDF. The whole Kindle to PDF conversion progress is free and convenient.
Pros:
- Free;
- Easy to use if the books are drm free.
- Can be used as an eBooks management tool.
Cons: Need to install Calibre DeDRM plugin to remove kindle drm first, and also need to add the kfx-zip file into calibre for the kindle kfx to pdf conversion.
Method 3. Convert Kindle to PDF Online (Free Online Kindle to PDF Converter )
There are some free kindle to pdf online converter that could help us:
Zamzar Kindle to PDF Converter
If you are interested(especially for those people who have 2 or 3 books only that need to be processed), pleaese try this way.
Pros:
- Free, online tools.
- No need to install third-party software.
Cons:
- Ads everywhere, because it's a free online site.
- Should input email address to receive the converted file.
- Each time to open a site to convert hundreds of books will be a littly messy.
- Only handle drm-free kindle books.
FAQs about converting kindle books to PDF
FAQ 0: How to export or extract my books from Kindle?
If your books are downloaded via the Kindle Fire or Kindle e-Ink, you can find them stored under "Document" folder after you plugged in via USB. But if your books are downloaded via Kindle app, I highly recommend you use the Kindle desktop app to sync and re-download them for successfully kindle in pdf conversion.
FAQ 1: Convert Kindle to PDF Windows 8
Some customers leave comments to complain that, they can't find the downloaded Kindle books on their Windows 8 computer, which stopped them successfully converting a Kindle book to a PDF.
The downloaded kindle books will be saved in "My Kindle Content" folder. But if you failed to find them, you can check following path:
- C:\Users\<userid>\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle\application\content
- C:\Users\<userid>\AppData\Local\Packages\<Package Name>\LocalState or Roaming State or SystemAppData
Or
Details you can read how to remove Kindle DRM on Windows 8. After you succeeded to strip the drm, continue to follow this guide to convert your kindle books formats please.
FAQ 2: Convert Kindle AZW6 to PDF
After the conversion finished, when we open the PDF book, we will find that all the pages of some PDF books (which we converted from Kindle) are blank, but just with one cover image. Why?
It's likely that the original Kindle book you got from amazon store is an azw6 book. This format is only used in Amazon Japan.
Until now I haven't found a tool that could help us directly handle azw6 format Kindle books. The unique solution and easiest way is to sync these books via Kindle for PC/Mac and download them again to your computer, so that epubor or calibre could recognize them.
FAQ 3: Convert Kindle KFX to PDF
Since 2017 Amazon started widely using their new format, KFX, into their kindle books, after they upgraded the Kindle desktop version to version 1.19.
This format features at the new enhanced typesetting engine and new Bookerly font. Reading KFX on Kindle devices especailly on KPW3 is really nice and cool, but it's really a pain when we want to read them on non-Kindle devices.
To convert kindle kfx books to pdf, Epubor Ultimate makes things much easier. The latest update ensure you to remove kindle drm effectively from kindle books downloaded via the latest kindle for PC/Mac.
Watch the Video tutorial first
FAQ 4: Convert Kindle to PDF A5 size
Thoug A4 is the default page size, but you know that there are some readers such as Sony DPT-CP1, will only supports A5 PDF. So, is it possible to change or reduce the PDF page size from A4 to A5? The anwser is Yes.
Open Calibre, add your A4 pdf books into the calibre, "Convert books". From the new window select the output as "PDF", and then from the left side area choose "PDF Output", set the "Paper size" as "a5", OK.
Waiting for the job finished. When it's completed, you can click to open the new page size PDF books with Calibre built-in viewer. If you think it's good, then try to transfer the A5 page size PDF book to your Sony digital reader please (may also need Digital Paper App to sync the files).
Please note: Not all of the PDF books will be displayed correctly or perfectly on your new device after being changed the size into A5. The PDF output quality is always being the century problems. So here I will recommend you preview the pdf file first before transferring them to your device.
FAQ 5: Kindle to PDF vertically
For those Kindle Japan users, they already were familiar with the vertical layout. But after converting Kindle to PDF, you will find that some books have been horizantal, and with badly layout. This is because some tools will help you rotate the PDF, which results in the vertical to horizontal and with bad display.
I would say that, there is nearly no tools works for convert books to vertical PDF. If yes, the layout is not as good as what you want. My personal suggestion is to convert kindle books to vertical ePub foramt. And you can use either Calibre or vertical supported version of Epubor Ultimate.
Solution 1 Convert Kindle to vertical ePub Calibre
Convert Kindle to ePub with Calibre, and select "Look&Feel" > "Styling".
Then copy the following css codes into the blank area please.
Then choose "EPUB" as the output format, convert.
You will find the epub books are vertical and displayed well.
Solution 2 Convert Kindle to vertical ePub with customized edition of Epubor Ultimate
If you think adding css manually is a little messy, you can download the custom edition of Epubor Ultimate which helps convert Kindle books (vertical or horizontal) to vertical ePub/Mobi/AZW3.
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This custom edition helps convert our Kindle books to vertical ePub, no matter your original Kindle books are vertical display or horizontal display.
Just add your Kindle books to its main interface to remove DRM, and then choose ePub as the output format. Please note that DON'T choose PDF as output though it supports this output format.
Open Adobe Digital Editions, and drag the converted EPUB books to ADE. You will find that the ePub is vertical display well.
That's all. Wish this guide will help resolve 99% of your problems when converting Kindle to PDF format.If you found new questions, don't forget to leave your comments below or chat with us via livechat.
Ada Wang works for Epubor and writes articles for a collection of blogs such as ebookconverter.blogspot.com.
Hi,
Many thanks!
I'm glad you'got something useful here.
Ada
Hi, Christy
Glad to hear that.
Feel free to tell us if you have any other problem.
Regards.
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Hi,
I've succeeded in converting my Kindle book to ePUB and as pdf.
I just don't know how to get it from wherever it is on my MacBookPro into my Kobo.
I'm thinking it'd be less of a headache to just buy the friggin book (again) via the Kobo eReader Store!!
Thanks for any tips to get these last steps...
Sherry
Now due to kindle 1.39 version has come new kindle books will no longer downloaded in kindle 1.32 version as before so we cannot convert in epubor also.
Is there any fix for this.
Thanks
We aware of this issue. It seems the amazon kindle has changed something in the new published kindle books. It requires the latest kindle app to download it.
Now we are working on this issue. Once there is a solution, we will let you know. The older kindle books still can be cracked with Epubor Ultimate.
There is still another way to remove drm from this kind of kindle books if you have any kindle eink device registered with your amazon account. Please download the kindle books via "Download and transfer via usb" and then remove kindle drm with Epubor Ultimate. Here is the detailed guide: https://www.epubor.com/how-to-remove-drm-from-kindle-kfx-ebooks.html#meth4