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Gonecamping444

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Posted: 02/07/12 11:33am

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Thanks eubank & joe b.Greg

kirbybear

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Posted: 02/07/12 01:25pm

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I do not have either devices. I have a 3G air card wireless connection but no WiFi access. From what I can gather I can down load and upload from from Amazon to my PC and transfer to the Kindles. Is this a correct statement ? Is this also true for the initial account sign up ?

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Posted: 02/07/12 01:49pm

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Kirbybear - You don't even have to own a Kindle device to buy and read the ebooks. On my PCs, iPhone, my wife's iPad, we have the Kindle app. Any of these devices can purchase content from Amazon and be read on that device, which will then be stored until retrieved. When we are traveling, I tend to use the hot spot on my iPhone, to do any purchase, transfers, etc. of Kindle products. I believe there is a way to plug in, via hard wire, a cable between a Kindle and a PC to move content, I have never done it that way though. A cable is the way that I used to transfer music and photos from my PC to my Kindle Fire, just never tried to move books. USB to micro cable, same as my MiFi uses.
To sign up for an account, go to Amazon.com, then to the Kindle store, download the app, Kindle for PC. You plug in your credit card info and password, the same as any Amazon account. Then you are good to go. It is really much simpler than all this wandering verbiage makes it sound. Anywhere I have cell phone access with either AT&T or Verizon (with my MIFI hot spot device) I can get on my Kindle account and take care of any business I may have. I too have an air card, but my wife and I had a problem sharing it, so we went to the hot spot devices. LOL

* This post was edited 02/07/12 02:03pm by joe b. *

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Posted: 02/07/12 01:52pm

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kirbybear wrote:

If you are asking about library books for a 3G Kindle with no wifi you must download to your PC and then transfer via the USB cable. It is a simple checkout process where the library hands you off to Amazon and then Amazon instructs you to Save the book to your PC and then transfer via USB. Just a couple of buttons to push.

As for initial account signup - assuming you mean registering your Kindle - I think you can do it either way.

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Posted: 02/08/12 06:20am

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Kirbybear: if you are not going to buy a Kindle or a Nook, you can read both of these on your PC. You can also just download the Epub book instead of the Kindle book from your library.
The Adobe Digital reader program that the Libraries use, will read any Kindle or Nook book whether you got it from the library or some other place.
Remember that these books are DRM and you can't move them from PC to PC just in case you didn't know that. I have a Kindle but this information isn't usually stated by others.