Step-by-Step Tutorial: Access and Enjoy Your Kindle Library Seamlessly on macOS

How to Read Kindle Books on Mac

Posted by Jonny Greenwood on 6/21/2019 11:30:01 AM.

Recently there are many people asked me can I read Kindle books on Mac and how to. It is really a little a waste of time to answer these questions one by one (of course it’s also my honor to read them), so today I write this article in details for you about how to read Kindle books on Mac by 3 different ways. For reading Kindle books on PC, there are also three methods to read Kindle books on PC .

Method 1: Read Kindle Books with Kindle for Mac app

1 Download & Install Kindle for Mac app

You don’t need a Kindle device to read Kindle books. Here is a free app from amazon store that you can use on your Mac. Access to Amazon.com to get free Kindle for Mac app. Then download and install it on the Mac.

2 Open Kindle Books with Kindle for Mac

The Kindle books you bought from Amazon will appear in Kindle for Mac because of its sync function. Choose one and right click it. Then you can choose the option to read from the appeared menu.

This is the easiest way to read Kindle books on mac. But every coin has two sides. It also makes our eBook reading a little disappointed because we can only read Kindle on Kindle apps but not in iBooks. This is because these books are only bonded with Amazon Kindle store. It’s forbidden to transfer downloaded books to Kindle for mac app with iTunes but only Send to Kindle. What’s worse, the app can’t read ePub books purchased from another eBooks stores.

So Method 2 or Method 3 may become your best choice.

Method 2: Read Kindle Books on Mac with iBooks

EPUB is one of the most common ebook formats (the other one is PDF) and Most e-readers support including Mac computer. Though there are many ePub readers we can use on the mac, but here I strongly recommend you use iBooks app to read ePub books as it is definitely the best reading app on the mac.

1 Transfer Kindle Books to Your Mac

With Kindle for Mac , you can see all Kindle books you bought. Right click the book and choose the download option. Then the book will be downloaded to your local folder.

Tips: Click “Kindle” and Choose “Preferences”. From the general window, you can see “Content Folder” and the letters below is the address of your Kindle books stored. Find the books you downloaded in “My Kindle Content” folder of your mac.
Except for the above way you also can use USB cable to collect your Kindle device with mac and transfer your books.

2 Download & Install Epubor Ultimate on Mac

Most Kindle eBooks are protected with Kindle DRM. Kindle books has their own formats such as AZW3, AZW, Mobi, PRC, but not the common ePub format. Epubor Ultimate is the best DRM Removal + eBook Converter. Epubor Ultimate can also help us edit eBook metadata if we want. Just with this one tool you can also read Kindle books on iPad Pro , and read Kindle books on android .

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3 Decrypt & Convert Kindle Books

Open Epubor Ultimate, you can drag and drop Kindle books in it. After your Kindle books added, it will automatically remove the DRM from your selected Kindle eBooks. Then just choose the output format as ePub and click “Convert to ePub” button. Wait for a moment and you can get the fresh ePub books from the pop-up window.

The best point of Epubor Ultimate is it can automatically identify books of devices or apps if you have opened Kindle for Mac app or your Kindle device has collected with your mac. You will see your kindle eBooks are listed in the left area after you get the Epubor Ultimate started. Select the books you want to convert to, then drag them from the left to the right area. You can also click “+Add” to load them.

4 Read Converted Books in iBoooks

You can find your converted epub books at the output folder. Then right click, select “open with iBooks”, you will see your eBooks clearly listed in the library.

It also has another way to add books. Open your iBooks app, drag and drop the books you want to add. In the library, you can see them and right click the book to choose read option.

Method 3: Read Kindle Books on Mac with Adobe Digital Editions

1 Transfer Kindle Books to Your Mac

This is a necessary step for you to transfer Kindle books to your mac. But how to achieve it. So here is the method .

2 Decrypt & Convert Kindle Books to ePub

If we want to read books with Adobe Digital Editions, we must convert their formats to ePub. Learn the details of how to decrypt & convert Kindle books to ePub. After you do that, you can continue the next steps.

3 Download & Install Adobe Digital Editions for Mac

You can check official Adobe to download it.

4 Add Kindle Books to Adobe Digital Editions

Open Adobe Digital Editions for mac app. Drag and drop the converted books to Adobe Digital Editions. Right click the book and select the read option.

I hope this article has resolved your problems, and wish you have a nice reading on your mac. Or if you have other methods it will be nice of you to leave a comment.

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Step-by-Step Tutorial: Access and Enjoy Your Kindle Library Seamlessly on macOS