Formats of electronic books that a kindle can read

Kindle is a famous electronic book reader that is manufactured by Amazon. This portable device is specially prepared to collect and read digital books, with the comfort that this implies and not having to carry all those paper books with you.

Although Kindle has its own store to buy books online, it is possible to read books from other sources by loading them on the device in different formats that it can read. In the following lines we are going to tell you what are those formats of electronic books, also called ebooks, that are compatible Kindle and thus be able to read them without problems.

List of Kindle compatible formats

AZW

When you purchase a book from the Amazon store, they always come in this file format. It is Amazon's own system for their Kindle, which has many similarities with the.mobi format.

KF8

Kindle Format 8 (KF8) is a new electronic book format that was also devised by Amazon. This particular format is a step forward for ebooks as it supports HTML5, CSS, and Javascript content, allowing for animated content, videos, and interactive graphics. Although it is more prepared for more advanced devices like Kindle Fire, it is also compatible with all current Amazon devices.

Mobi

One of the best known ebook formats, although in this case only files that do not contain DRM can be loaded.

PRC

Very similar to the.mobi format, they can be loaded on the device but the books must not contain DRM.

TXT

Although there are no e-books that are created based on a simple txt text file, you may also want to upload them to a Kindle, for example, to read notes you've made.

PDF

The PDF format is widely used on the computer and many books can be read in this format but it is not an ebook. This means that an ebook reader can read this kind of files (like a txt) but it will have limitations and certain incompatibilities. For these cases, it will be best to convert them to a compatible ebook format, which we will detail below.

Convert your documents to a compatible format

If we have a PDF document or another format that we want to read without problems on a Kindle, it is best to convert it. The best application for this task is undoubtedly Caliber and its 'Convert books' function, which makes this task quite simple. It is highly recommended to convert them to .mobi or .prc format , it is very easy with Caliber.

If you know of any other app or other simpler method to convert documents to ebooks, please share it in the comment box.