How can I read/open my kindle dx books on my laptop?

Question

I bought/downloaded like 250 books (gutenberg.org) for my Kindle Dx. I think has a lot of great free out of copyright books, plus purchased maybe 40 from Amazon. Only like 20% include the title in the file name, the other 80% have titles like aalsdkei.mobi and qeituohq.azw. I need to rename the files so I can only put the files I WANT on my Kindle. How do I open/read the files on my laptop so I can see what file book adlkfjaleja.mobi is so I can rename it?

Answer 1

See here for handling of .mobi files:



http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Ftagging%2Ftag%2Febook%2Fforum%3Fie%3DUTF8%26cdForum%3DFx2EXFX6ZD7W7M8%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcd%255Fef%255Ftft%255Ftp%26cdThread%3DTx2YUP5SSHCEV81&tag=more_info-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957



Actually you can get the software here for your computer to read mobi files:



http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/



Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I have a Kindle, it was about $130 and in the long run i think the e-readers are cheaper because there are many sites that give away free downloads of recent and popular book. I do enjoy real books more but it soon adds up to a lot of money and with the e-readers you can have more then one or two books on hand.

Answer 3

I think what you are going to find is that the File format on Kindle is different from a pc you might try looking for an Emulator ,I am not saying that there is such a thing , for now you can send the files back to Amazon to be converted .