Reading Kindle books can be an excellent experience for all book lovers, especially when you consider the variety and prices of the Kindle ebooks. The Kindle books at first are only available on kindle eReader devices, nowadays you can freely read kindle books on any mobile devices. Since more and more people are purchasing low-cost but powerful Android devices, this guide will tell you how to read Kindle books on an Android phone/tablet.
Before reading Kindle books on the Android device, we should first install the Kindle reader app for Android.
Method 1. Read Kindle Books on Android with Kindle Android App
The Kindle App is the offcial App realeased by Amazon that lets every users download for free. Almost every App Stores in the Android device provide the Kindle App for Android, including Google Play Store. Just Search for Kindle on Google Play and tap Kindle icon to install it to your Android phone/tablet.
When Kindle App has been installed to Android device, we can easily read Kindle books on our Android tablets and smartphones. The Complete guide can be concluded as the following steps.
Step 1 Launch Kindle App for Android and register it with your Amazon Kindle account.
If you don't have an Amazon account yet, just create a new Amazon account.
Step 2 Purchase (free) Kindle books to an Android phone/tablet (Internet connection required).
If you don't have any Kindle book, you can find many free books or purchase some books on Amazon website. Just tap the "Store" button at the bottom to go to the Kindle ebook store.
Note: Amazon has disabled in-app book purchases as of June 1, 2022. But you can visit amazon.com in your device browser and purchase books, then the purchased books will be synced to your kindle library.
Step 3 Download (free) Kindle books to Android phone/tablet.
All your purchased Kindle books in your account will be synced to the "Library" automatically, together with the related notes, highlights and the latest reading page. Just any book cover and it will be downloaded to the device.
Step 4 Read Kindle books on Android phone/tablet.
All the downloaded books are displayed under the "downloaded" tab in the "Library". Tap a title to open and read it. Holding down a word enables users to note, highlight and do other operations (search in Book, search Wikipedia or search the Web).
Tips: Books we downloaded via Kindle android app are with KFX format, and they are stored here: \Internal storage\Android\data\com.amazon.kindlefc\files\
Method 2. Read Kindle Books on Android with Any eBook Reader for Android
Many people complained that the Kindle app on Android often crashes and would prefer a better to read Kindle books on Kindlw with a better ebook reader. Is it possible to read Kindle books with some other ebook reader on Android? Sure, of course! But before that, you should do something else to make your Kindle books compatible with your ebook reader, since the Kindle books are all DRM-protected and has its own format, which is not supported by any other readers. So here is the solution for you.
Step 1 Remove DRM from Kindle books and convert Kindle books to EPUB or PDF with Epubor Ultimate.
Step 2 Find and install an eBook reader to your Android phone/tablet.
VIP Tips: Can we read Kindle books on our android phone without an app? Yes, you can also use Kindle Cloud Reader to access your kindle library.
Step 3 Transfer the DRM-free and converted (epub) Kindle books to Android.
Ada Wang works for Epubor and writes articles for a collection of blogs such as ebookconverter.blogspot.com.
Thanks. great review. But my galaxy note 10.1 2014 does not recognize the Kindle App. Would you have any suggestions how to fix it?
Thanks.
Hi KMF,
We write different articles from different angles to cover different readers.
And this post if for those pure tech rookies.
So what do you want to know about reading Kindle books on Android? Maybe we can answer your questions in private, or write another post.
Thank you in advance for your answer
Hi Ongakuka,
I am not sure if the Kindle app is able to recognize a serie of books.
However you can create colletion to organize your books in my experience.
does it continue to use data when i read it or only when i purchase it
What do you suggest?
Hi,I basically have 2 Questions?
1. Which format does the Kindle recognise, i mean .mobi, .epub or any other?
2. Can i read .pdf books in Kindle Android without saving any books in my amazon account and instead pointing to some folder in my Android device through Kindle app?
Thanx!!
Hi, Kiddy
Kindle recognise .mobi and .pdf format.
You'd better copy and paste your dowanloaded books to the "Kindle" folder.
Thanks.
Thank you for any help you can provide.
Recommended reads come up on the screen and wont move when I tap the screen.
I have to tap everything to finally get to read something, and half the time a book I have already read puts me on the final page.
It is all so damn annoying as it is not as easy as the Kindle for PC.
I wish there was a detailed walkthrough to guide me (and others) who have similar problems.
Please assist me in getting back to using my Tablet.
Hi,
Maybe you can try to uninstall Kindle app on your tablet, then reinstall it to solve the problem.
thankyou
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There's no getting around this harsh truth.
Why?
They did not publish the RIGHT book.
It does not get any simpler than that.
Your book must be in a CATEGORY that SELLS! Just because you think a topic is 'hot' doesn't mean someone else will agree with you. Worse yet, just because you're excited about your
topic doesn't mean peoople will actually PAY HARD-EARNED CASH for your book.
Next, even if you did pick the right niche, you need to make sure it is well-written.
Sadly, very few Kindle authors know how to write... for KINDLE! Fiverr or upwork are NOT great places for Kindle talent. You need tried and proven writers. Do a search on Google for "Gene Eugenio writer" to find an experienced writer who will write a full book for only $99 or some other similar affordable service.. There's a few of them. I only listed Ozki because of their relatively low pricing.
Third, you need to SELL an AUTHOR BRAND. Kindle books are not commodities. Best selling authors make BANK because they sell a whole SERIES of books to their fans. You can do the same by making sure your
writer writes your book to string them into a SERIES!
Keep the 3 tips above in mind if you're serious about getting a snowball's chance in hell of actually making money on Kindle.
The bottom line? Kindle publishing IS NO JOKE