I have a Kindle with many ebooks on it. I would like to back them up onto my desktop. I have a cable that will go from my Kindle to USB, but I don't know how to do this. Thank you in advance for all of your help.
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Could you please be more specific? What Kindle do you own? From you got the ebook in your Kindle? Are you trying to transfer them to an Ubuntu computer?– moonstar-xOct 3, 2013 at 2:36
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1I use Calibre from the repos to manage the books on my Kindle. You might look at it.– MarcOct 10, 2013 at 3:05
1 Answer
The Kindle Fire does not automount in Ubuntu 12.04. The dmesg tail does not show any usb storage when Kindle is plugged in. Install package mtp-tools and mtpfs
sudo apt-get install mtp-tools mtpfs
Make a directory under /mnt named mtp
sudo mkdir /mnt/mtp
Plug in the kindle and mount it
mtpfs /mnt/mtp
Your kindle files should now appear under /mnt/mtp Browse for your books and just copy them off. I forget exactly where they were, maybe under /mnt/mtp/kindle Unmount the kindle (or command fusermount -u /mnt/mtp )
sudo umount /mnt/mtp