The problem of the kindle oasis not being seen in calibre is fixed in the beta version here. Official release version will be available in a few days. Thanks go to kovid the creator of Calibre 11. Perform a Hard Reset. Hard resetting Kindle enables users to clear the memory of. Kindle Fire Fast Charger,15W Power Adapter,6Ft Charging Cord,Compatible for Amazon Kindle Fire HD HDX 7'8.9',Fire hd 6 7 8 10,Fire 8Plus and Kids Edition,Kindle Oasis,E-Reader 4.1 out of 5 stars 13 $15.39 $ 15. 39 $25.39 $25.39. No more necessary for Oasis than Paperwhite. Calibre, which is discussed at r/calibre, is an ebook library manager, that you can run on a desktop computer. It's ideal for converting epub to a format that kindles can use, like mobi. But if you didn't need it for your Paperwhite you won't need it for your Oasis.
Are you tired of spending so much time looking for your eBooks on an ugly Amazon page? Did you download an eBook from another website, but it’s an epub and you can’t easily send it to your Kindle? Well, let me help you with that.Kindle devices are incredibly popular and sometimes they’re used to back up arguments that paperbacks are dead. You can fill them with eBooks in an impressive pace. eBooks are everywhere: on Amazon and in hundreds of other stores, you can also find millions of free onesonline. When you do, you might find it hard to get them on your device. Kindles are very particular when it comes to file formats.There’s this powerful tool called calibre. It can manage all your eBooks, no matter where they came from and help you select the ones that will get on your device. With it, you can track which books you read and which ones you liked. It can download covers and metadata or compile a series of novels. It can also convert books from one format to another and even make your personal documents into eBooks. Kindle applications just don’t measure up to what calibre is capable of.
How to Set Up Your Library
You open calibre and plug your Kindle with USB for the first time. The program will scan its contents and create a file with metadata – this will allow you to control what eBooks from your library are on the device and vice versa.
Connect Kindle Oasis To Calibre
Unfortunately, you cannot transfer eBooks you bought on Amazon from your Kindle to the calibre library directly. If you want to copy them:
- First, log in to your Amazon account.
- Then, choose “Manage Your Content and Devices” from the “My Account” tab.
- Finally, click “Download & transfer via USB” from under the “Actions” button.
You will be prompted to select which device you’ll read this eBook on. This question pops up because of the DRM protection Amazon puts on eBooks they sell.To add the files, you just downloaded, to your calibre library, just drag-and-drop them to the calibre’s main window.Sending content from your calibre library to your Kindle is much easier. We’ll get to that in a bit.
How to Convert eBooks Using calibre
Let’s say you downloaded an eBook from somewhere on the Internet (say, The Gutenberg Project). But it turns out it’s in a different format than mobi or azw. Most likely, epub.Epub is the most popular eBook format and most eReaders support it because it’s open-source. Kindle devices, however, do not. Amazon uses its own two file formats: the older, mobi and the newer, azw (also: azw3). Both are Amazon’s property but offer a wider selection of options (e.g. adding a built-in dictionary or support for annotations and comments). The azw format was built upon mobi and offers better compression and encryption.If you want the eBook on your Kindle, you need to convert it to mobi or azw first. When you opened calibre for the very first time, you went through the configuration wizard. During this process, you already told calibre what device you use. Because of that calibre already chose the best file formats to convert to and you don’t even have to convert your eBooks by yourself, just send them and calibre will do the rest.
How to Send Your eBook to Kindle Using calibre
Okay, you prepared your eBook. Now, what? How to transfer them to your Kindle and start reading? Let’s dive in.
Sending eBooks To Kindle Via USB
To send the eBook to your Kindle, just right-click on it and select “Send to device > Send to main memory”. Note, you should still be keeping your Kindle plugged in via USB. Your eBook will be on your Kindle in seconds.
Sending eBooks To Kindle with Email
If you prefer to send your files with email, right-click on the eBook and select “Connect/share > Email to …@kindle.com”. The “…@kindle.com” bit should be your Kindle email you set up on Amazon.
If you want to setup or change this email, log in to your Amazon account and then:
- Go to “Manage Your Content and Devices” and choose the “Your Devices” tab.
- Then, click “Edit” by the mail listing.
Kindle Oasis Collections Calibre
To manage your emails in calibre:
- First, click “Preferences” in the main window.
- Then, select “Sharing books by email” in the “Sharing” section.
- Finally, you can add new emails by pressing the “Add email” button and remove old ones by pressing the “Remove email” button.
- The e-mail displayed in the menu in “Connect/share” is whichever address you made default. To make an address default, press the “Make default” button.
If you don’t get the eBooks you sent with email on your Kindle shortly, consider using an email relay like GMX.
Engage!
Remember that when you transfer your eBooks with email, Amazon will have access to them and will convert your files once again. Transferring via USB ensures that no one has access to your files but you. It also gives you more control over the content.That’s all you need to know to start managing your Kindle library with calibre. This program, however, has a lot of other options. To explore them, browse through the User Manual or other posts on this blog.
This blog post was contributed by Bartosz Makuch, a Freelance Software Copywriter. He studied Physics and Management and loves to write stories that move people. In his spare time he listens to classic rock and reads sci-fi novels. You can find him at prowriter.biz
Calibre, the open-source and cross-platform ebook management software, received a new update today that brought support for Amazon's latest Kindle device.
Calibre 3.11 is the latest stable release of the application, and, according to the release notes, it now supports the all-new Kindle Oasis e-reader from Amazon, which is also company's very-first waterproof Kindle device. Support for Kindle Oasis was implemented in the Kindle driver so you can connect it to Calibre to sync books.
Also new in this release is support for controlling the look and feel of the text in the browser viewer by specifying custom CSS style sheets, the ability for the app to display the original word in italics in the list of suggestions under the Edit Book Spell Check feature, and the implementation of a contains rule type in column coloring.
The browser viewer also received improvements to the font size and color scheme settings so they can be taken into consideration in the footnote pop-up. Moreover, it's now possible to add a new HTML file after the file that's currently being edited, not before it, and the Book Details panel now lets you save the displayed cover to disk.
Better DOCX support, Linux improvements, and new news sources
Calibre 3.11 improves the DOCX output functionality used for converting books to the DOCX format by addressing an issue with the XML and comments processing instructions in the middle of text, which caused text to be skipped. It also fix the metadata field titles in the Book Details panel to be aligned at the top.
For Linux users, Calibre 3.11 improves the startup, which took longer than expected on the distributions that don't have a desktop notification service enabled. Lastly, support for the Financial Times, El Mundo, Tulsa World, Science Daily, and computerworld.pl news sources was improved.
Calibre 3.11.1 was released as well a few hours after the 3.11.0 version to fix some regressions that would break the Get Books component when configuring it or when attempting to create catalogs. You can download Calibre 3.11.1 for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems right now from our website.