Access Kindle Library On Mac

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Explore the Book Store

Search for and purchase books from a variety of categories and genres from the Book Store.

You can see all of your library's Kindle Books by selecting the Kindle Books link near the top of the site (or under on mobile devices). Note: You may want to check whether a Kindle Book has any device restrictions before you borrow it (this is most common for picture books, read-alongs, and graphic novels).

Browse books on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Jul 06, 2020 Before you can access your library, you'll need to sign in to your Amazon account by typing in your e-mail address and password. Once you're signed in, you'll see your library. If you aren't prompted to sign in, click the two curved arrows at the top of the left column to sync—this brings up a sign-in screen. And you don't need a Kindle reader to take advantage of the thousands of e-book titles available on Amazon: you can use the Kindle app for Mac to read them right on your computer. Here's what you. Turn your phone or tablet into a book with the free Kindle apps for iOS, Android, Mac, and PC. Read anytime, anywhere on your phone, tablet, or computer. Go beyond paper with immersive, built-in features. The ebook is automatically added to your Kindle Library on our Mac. To add the ebook to your Kindle library on another device (e.g. Your Kindle, phone, tablet or computer), email the ebook to the device, using the device’s Amazon email address (link to see detailed instructions below). For iPhone or iPad.

  1. Open the Books app and tap Book Store at the bottom of the screen.
  2. Browse the top charts or books recommended for you. Or tap Browse Sections to see book store sections like Coming Soon or genres like Young Adult or Nonfiction. You can also tap the Search tab to search for specific titles, authors, narrators, and more.
  3. Tap a book. You can tap Sample to read a preview of the book, or tap Want to Read to add it to your Want to Read list in the Reading Now tab.

You can tap Buy and confirm the purchase of your book. All of your books, book series, PDFs, and audiobooks that you've purchased from the Book Store or Audiobook Store or manually added to your device appear under the Library tab.

Browse books on your Mac

  1. Open the Books app and click Book Store at the top of the window.
  2. In the sidebar, click Top Charts, The New York Times, or Top Authors to browse for books. Or click Categories to see genres like Comics & Graphic Novels, History, or Mysteries & Thrillers. You can also use the Search option in the upper-right corner.
  3. Click a book. Then you can click Get Sample to read a preview of the book before buying.

You can click Buy and confirm the purchase of your book. All of your books, book series, PDFs, and audiobooks that you've purchased from the Book Store or Audiobook Store or manually added to your Mac appear in your Library tab under the All Books tab in the sidebar .

Read books

Tap or double-click a book to open it and start reading. If you close the book, Apple Books saves your place for you. Controls are available to customize your reading experience and annotate passages. You can also search for a specific word or page number and create bookmarks to view later.

Control your reading on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Tap the center of your screen on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to open and close the controls while reading. You can tap the Table of Contents button to skip to a different chapter or section, see bookmarks you've added, and view highlights and notes you've made.

Learn how to adjust font sizes and brightness, take notes, and create bookmarks.

Control your reading on your Mac

To view the controls when you're reading on your Mac, move your pointer to the top of the book. You can click the Table of Contents button to skip to a different chapter or section. To skip to a bookmarked page, click the the down arrow next to the Bookmark button .

Learn how to highlight and take notes or change a book's appearance.

Manage your library

Organize the books in your library, and download a book to read offline. If you need to remove any downloaded items, you can delete books and audiobooks from your devices.

Download books on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Find the item in your library. Don't see the book that you want?
  2. Tap the book to open it and download it automatically. You can also tap the More button below the book and choose Download.
  3. If the book is part of a series, first tap to open the series, then tap the download button under the book that you want.

Organize your library on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Tap Library.
  2. Under Collections, tap the word next to Sort. If you don't see Sort, swipe down on your screen to have the option appear.
  3. From the menu that appears, choose Recent, Title, Author, or Manually. You can also sort other collections. For example, go to Collections > Audiobooks to sort your audiobooks by author.

Click the List View button to view your books as a list instead of a grid.

Download books on your Mac

  1. Find the item in your library. Don't see the book that you want?
  2. Click the cloud icon in the upper-right corner. If you don't see the cloud icon, the book is already downloaded to your device.
  3. If the book is part of a series, first double-click to open the series, then click the cloud icon on the book that you want to download.

Organize your library on your Mac

  1. Click All Books in the left sidebar.
  2. Click Sort By in the upper-right corner.
  3. Choose Most Recent, Title, or Sort Manually.

Click the List View button to view your books as a list instead of a grid.

If you don't see a book

If you don't see a book that you purchased from the Book Store in your library, here are some things you can try.

Update your device

Make sure that you're using the latest version of iOS or iPadOS on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, or the latest version of macOS on your Mac.

Turn on iCloud on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Tap [your name] > iCloud
  3. Turn on both iCloud Drive and Books.
  4. Then go to Settings > Books. Under Syncing, turn on iCloud Drive.

Download all of your books on your Mac

  1. Click the Book Store tab at the top of the window.
  2. In the sidebar, click Featured.
  3. Under Quick Links, click Purchased.
  4. Click the Download All button in the lower-right corner.

Redownload or unhide your books

Redownload books to add books that you previously deleted back to your library.

Unhide books if you previously hid those purchases.

Discover more ways to read

  • You can listen to audiobooks in the Books app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. Or use iTunes on a PC.
  • Read storybooks aloud with iBooks Storytime on Apple TV.
  • You can save copies of PDFs from emails and webpages into the Books app.
  • You can also add DRM-free EPUB file format books, iBooks Author books, books that you create with Pages, MP3 audiobooks, AAC audiobooks, and Audible.com audiobooks to your library.

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In this post you’ll find two ways to back up Kindle books from the cloud to your computer. One requires a Kindle; the other one doesn’t.

Having Kindle books stored in the cloud is very convenient. It allows to sync reading progress between devices registered to the same account. It also is a way to back up the books you don’t currently read.

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Well, sometimes it’s good to back up the books the other way round. In this post, we’ll show how to do it, using:

  • the Kindle e-reader,
  • the Kindle for Mac/PC application.

Ebookstores have much more control over Kindle users’ accounts than anyone could imagine. This e-reader privacy chart explains this in detail.

In other words, someone else has access to your Kindle library and it’s not 100% up to you what and when will change. It’s how cloud storage works, we either deny it or live with it.

While removing content from user’s account is an exception, you may see changes in books you’ve bought. It happens when a publisher updates the file associated with the book. It could be just a formatting, or it could be a new edition that differs from what you had before.

Before moving to the guides, please keep in mind that ebooks from Amazon are DRM-ed. You won’t be able to read them on any other app or device. Or, to put it differently, you will be able after you get rid of the DRM layer.

Tips shared below will let you bring the books you purchased in Amazon’s Kindle Store to you computer – just in case something wrong happens on the other side.

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Back up Kindle books using Kindle e-reader

This tip works for anyone who owns a Kindle e-reader. It’s a quite useful idea to get access to the ebook library even when you don’t have access to the internet.

Also, it’s good if you want to add to your Kindle – and therefore, Kindle cloud library – the books that you acquired from other sites. We’ve got the extended list of the sites that offer free Kindle ebooks from the public domain.

There are two steps to back up Kindle ebooks via Kindle e-reader:

  1. Connect the Kindle to your computer via USB cable.
  2. Find the folder containing the books and copy it to disc.

1. Connect the Kindle to your computer with a USB cable

When you connect the Kindle to your computer, either PC or Mac, it will appear as an external drive. Open the drive icon, and locate the folder named “documents”.

Among other files types, the folder contains files in .azw format. It’s a .mobi file, protected with Amazon’s own DRM.

2. Copy the folder to a desired destination

Drag the “documents” folder to a desired place on your disc. You can also copy it to any cloud service you use, like Dropbox or Google Drive.

These cloud services are different from the cloud served by the Amazon. The files there are yours, and no one will change or update them if you don’t allow it.

Things to remember

Please keep in mind that you’ll copy only the files that are stored on the Kindle e-reader, and not the ones archived in the cloud.

To back up all the books from your Kindle library, you’ll first need to download them to the Kindle e-reader, which may take some time.

Back up Kindle books using Kindle desktop app

Using Kindle desktop app is convenient for Kindle users who don’t own an e-reader, and use mobile apps (iOS, Android) to read the ebooks.

How To Access Kindle Library On Mac

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It’s also good for Kindle e-reader owners who keep most of their books not on the e-reader but in the cloud.

There are four steps to back up Kindle books via Kindle desktop app:

  1. Download the Kindle desktop application (there are versions for PC and Mac).
  2. Download the books from the cloud to the app.
  3. Locate the folder with Kindle books on your computer.
  4. Copy it to disc.

1. Download the Kindle desktop app

The Kindle application lets you not only manage, but also read Kindle books on the computer. It’s available for the following systems:

  • Kindle for Windows 7, XP and Vista
  • Kindle for Windows 8
  • Kindle for Mac

When you go to free Kindle apps page on Amazon and click on the Download button, the version that fits the operating system of your computer will start downloading immediately.

After instaling the app, open it and sign in with your Amazon credentials.

2. Download the books from the cloud

In the app, in the Library view on the left, you’ll see how many books you have in your Kindle cloud library. There are three sections:

  • All items – how many books you have in your Kindle account in total,
  • Downloaded items – how many books you have on the disc of your PC or Mac computer,
  • Archived items – these books are stored in the Kindle cloud, and not downloaded to the computer.

Each book that’s not on your computer has a cloud icon in the bottom right corner.

To download the book (on Mac), either double-click on the book cover or select “Download” from a Ctrl+Click menu.

There is no option to download the Kindle books in bulk. You’ll have to do it title by title, but with the double-click, it’s pretty fast.

Please have in mind that just like with Kindle e-reader, you’ll have to download all the books from the archive to the Kindle app, if you want to back up all of them.

3. Locate the folder with downloaded books

During installation, Kindle desktop app creates a folder where all future downloads will be stored.

Below there are paths to find that folder:

  • Mac ⇢ ~/Library/Containers/com.amazon.Kindle/Data/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content
  • Windows 7, XP, Vista ⇢ C: / Users / Your User ID / Documents / My Kindle Content
  • Windows 8 ⇢ C: / Users / Your User ID / AppData / Local / Amazon / Kindle / application / content

I tested the directory on the Mac computer. For details on Windows, please read this Kindle forum.

Useful links

Here are a couple of reference links, in case you need more assistance:

  • Free Kindle apps – the download page for Kindle application, not only for PC or Mac, but also iOS and Android.
  • Kindle for Mac on the App Store – this is a download link for Mac users who prefer to get the Kindle app from the Mac App Store.
  • Kindle for PC installation instructions – if you have problems with installing the Kindle app on your PC, had tot his section of Amazon Help Pages.
  • Kindle for Mac support – assistance in installing and managing the Kindle for Mac application.

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