I use the ManyBooks site more. When you download, you get a drop-down allowing you to pick the file extension, the Amazon extention for example (.amz?).
But sometimes you need to Move the downloaded file in your laptop into the Calibre converter, with your Kindle connected to the laptop, and the Calibre sends it converted to the Kindle. Calibre is really easy, and I'm a HUGH-non-techie.
For your personal documents, you can save them in .txt or Rich Text formats, then through Calibre.
Thing is, Amazon only saves its own formats if your Kindle is reset. You retrieve all your Kindle items, but not the Gutenberg/ManyBooks/Mobi things. Gotta do those over. Also if you have to erase History/Cache, gotta do all the non-Amazon items over.
ON EDIT: The separate, Bluetooth keyboard is a must for me, only use the touch screen keypad for brief things.
*********O.K., all the positive things said, I had the Kindle Keyboard for a year, now the Fire HD 8.9 for a month, and both had to be replaced. The Keyboard just because the lettering wore off the keypad and not that I used it that much. The Fire because it just stopped turning on after its first two weeks. And these Kindles are my first exposure to readers/tablets, so I don't know whether the Apples and others are more sophisticated, but from the beginning, Kindle just seemed CLUNKY in navigation to me. Lying in bed with the reader, sometimes body movements on the page buttons caused inadvertant page turning, sometimes LOTS at a time meaning fishing around Back and Back to find your place. The Fire rotates portrait/landscape but can be Locked, with Unlocked meaning more of those inadvertant flipping views. And finding the Menus was a bad adjustment for me: Let's see, finding "Device" is under "More," while "Settings" is under the Web item menu. And the naked tablet is just not usable for me. It is ultra thin and sleek ("sleek" is their tag for themselves) with NOTHING to hold onto, with the Power button tiny hard to push and under the beveled edge and everything black hard to find/see. I've never dropped it, but have come close. I used a cover from Amazon for the reader, now have an Otter Box for the Fire. I attached a band of elastic onto the cover to slip my hand through to be able to hold it in one hand. The Otter Box is clunky, hard shell, with the stand being loosely separate, but all supposedly totally protective against dropping. Both cover and Box added tons of weight to the devices. By the time I'm done with the Fire up to a yr or two, I'll probably go with some other product from some other outlet.
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