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Kindle Cloud: read e-books on other devices – COMPUTER BILD

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From Andre Hesel, 08.12.2014, 15:00 clock

Of all the holiday you have forgotten your Kindle Reader? COMPUTER BILD tells you how to read your e-books on other devices.

Kindle Cloud: E-books on other devices you have read they way your e-books to read not only on your Kindle © Amazon.

Thanks Amazon Cloud you read your e-books not only on the Kindle, but also via app.

A mazons E-book readers are very popular. What many do not know: Even without Kindle books are purchased in the Amazon cloud are available and can be read on other devices. All you need is a free Kindle app that brings your entire library on the tablet PC, smartphone or computer. How are you reading from the “install apps”. Do you want to another device read exactly at the point where you left off on the Kindle, you must synchronize the devices. How this works for example with the Kindle 4, read the first and second section – in other Kindle readers, it works like:

With Wi-Fi connect

In order for your Kindle can report the last page read on your other devices, it must be connected to the Internet. Appears at the top of the screen the logo “Wi-Fi”? Then you can continue the same with the next step. Otherwise, you only press the Startseiten- and then the Menu button, open Settings and Display on “Wireless Networks”, select your wireless network Connect type in the password, select Done and OK .

Send Location

Open the desired book. The last reading position is then automatically transmitted to the Amazon cloud. Turn off the wireless connection then from by going to the homepage, the menu Settings and open the “airplane mode” switch. Then you can turn the device.



Free apps install

Install the free Kindle app on any number of devices. For licensing reasons, books can “only” six devices simultaneously open:

  • Windows 8 (Desktop), 7, Vista, XP : Transfer your Kindle for PC on the Festpaltte, and then reinstall the program
  • Apple Mac OSX. : Download the free program Kindle for Mac and install it
  • iPad, iPhone. , iPod touch . installing an off the App Store, the Kindle app for Apple devices
  • Android : Kindle for Android, click the Play Store
  • Windows Phone . Laden the Kindle app for Windows Phone Download
  • Windows 8 / RT ., the Kindle app for Windows 8 and RT, see the Windows Store.
After starting the app, you need to register once with your Amazon credentials. Then your books appear in the library.

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Once you open h3 a book in the app, it is transferred to the device and also has no Internet connection available. Have your Kindle synchronized as above, read the same on the last page read on. Turn the page, the new position is also transmitted when a connection to all devices. This is done at the latest when you close the book or app. Is your Kindle or other device with the Kindle app on the next access to the book online, there is a means by which you can switch to the new read position appears.

With more people read

Thanks Kindle cloud may also family members access to your library and read books even simultaneously. Since not everyone is on the same page, the synchronization of the read position in this case would be annoying. To disable log onto the website at amazon.de/myk, click under “Your Kindle Account” My devices Manage and in “Device Synchronization” on off . On the same page, you can (ie existing Kindles and devices with App) see your device and cancel if necessary.

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