Amazon has upgraded the Kindle app
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Last July, shortly after I got my iPad, I posted here, bemoaning the fact that the Kindle app for the iPad was closed -- there wasn't any way to get books into the Kindle app except by purchasing them via Amazon. People pointed me toward Stanza, and that's mostly what I've been using ever since, except for purchased books.
But as of today, Amazon has fixed that deficiency. I just installed a Kindle app upgrade, and there is now a Kindle icon in the File Sharing section of Apps in iTunes. I tried dropping in an unlocked .azw file and a .mobi file, and both of them showed up properly in the Kindle library on my iPad. (For some reason, iTunes also generates an 8K .mbp file for each installed file as well; I assume it's part of the install process.)
I then tried dropping a .mobi file into my Dropbox folder and opening the file in the iPad Dropbox app. Sure enough, clicking on the "open with this app" link allows me to open .mobi files in the iPad Kindle app.
This is the way I expected things to behave from the beginning, but I'm very happy to see the app works that way now.
kindledfans)Last July, shortly after I got my iPad, I posted here, bemoaning the fact that the Kindle app for the iPad was closed -- there wasn't any way to get books into the Kindle app except by purchasing them via Amazon. People pointed me toward Stanza, and that's mostly what I've been using ever since, except for purchased books.
But as of today, Amazon has fixed that deficiency. I just installed a Kindle app upgrade, and there is now a Kindle icon in the File Sharing section of Apps in iTunes. I tried dropping in an unlocked .azw file and a .mobi file, and both of them showed up properly in the Kindle library on my iPad. (For some reason, iTunes also generates an 8K .mbp file for each installed file as well; I assume it's part of the install process.)
I then tried dropping a .mobi file into my Dropbox folder and opening the file in the iPad Dropbox app. Sure enough, clicking on the "open with this app" link allows me to open .mobi files in the iPad Kindle app.
This is the way I expected things to behave from the beginning, but I'm very happy to see the app works that way now.
