What if you are in a place where you have no internet connection such as on an airplane, camping, or on a road trip where there are lots of spots with no wireless service? In these places, you wouldn’t be able to view your books or read them.īy downloading them locally to your device, you will still have the ability to read even when you are offline. Why can’t it just keep them on the Amazon cloud and let me access and read them from there? If your books are always obtainable from wherever you use the Kindle app, you might be asking why it needs to download and store them on your local device at all. Why Does Kindle Store the Books on My Mac? Even if your hard drive fails, the books are still available to you. It will then automatically download all of your reading material to your local device and it is ready for reading. So you won’t lose them and you can already access them from any device that you have the Kindle application loaded on.Īll you have to do is log in to the app with your Amazon user ID and password. Your Kindle books are already stored in the Amazon cloud. You can do that, but in the end, it’s not worth it. If you have been using computers for a long time like me, you might think, this is great because I can make a backup of my library. It is possible to have the application store the data on external devices or locations.

Now that we see how straightforward it is to change the location of where the application stores the library, some may wonder if the books can be stored on a removable USB flash drive, an external drive, a network location, or even in the cloud. Can I Store them On a Flash Drive or in the Cloud? Can read it.Step 3: Kindle will automatically move all of your books and associated data to the new location that you select. If use Searchlight in Finder don’t get anything on my hard drive for Kindle or Kindle Content, other than Kindle for Mac app. On my MBP page, if open Library>App Support, no Kindle or Kindle library. The path listed in Kindle Preferences for content storage does not appear in my Finder windows. If in Finder searchlight enter file name of book, something like B00BRZK102, it’s no where on my my MBP If in Finder, open my kindle content and click on a book to see path at bottom, no path appears. Clicked Change and that is when the path appeared. Kindle Preferences says Content stored in User Name>Library>App Support>Kindle>My Kindle Content.

Want to decide if large and better to store book files on separate hard drive.

Want to confirm that downloaded and not in Cloud (travel a lot and don’t want to count on Cloud) and size of book files. Have downloaded Kindle for Mac app and bought a book to try.

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