Kindle How-To Series - Saving E-Books and Audio Books on Your Kindle

One of the great features of the Kindle Wireless Reading Device from Amazon is that it has so many e-books and audio books. Even with it's large enough built-in storage however, your book collection might exceed the limits of what can fit on your Kindle. 

To help you handle your collection more and more e-books and audio books, the you can add extra memory to your Kindle in the form of an SD memory card. You can buy these range in size from 1 GB up to 16 GB. At the time you read this 32 GB cards may readily be available and affordable. Installing SD memory on your Kindle is very easy. You can find complete instructions in our Kindle How-To Series available at the website listed below.

Once you have your memory card inserted, it's time to move some of the e-books or audio books stored in main memory of your Kindle to your new SD Card. There are several things you should consider first before "making a move."

1. Audio books are a good candidate to move from your Kindle's main memory to the SD card. Audio book files can be large - some are up-to 90 mb or more. Audio books will quickly consumer your Kindle's main memory leaves little room for an e-books.

2. If you have purchased the books are on Amazon digital site and has not been sent to your Kindle might also be good candidates to load onto an SD memory card. This will keep all e-books and audio books in one place in case you run into a situation where you do not have wireless access.

3. Pictures, music files, and other digital files from e-books also consume a lot of space in the Kindle's main memory. Again, this makes them good choices to move to the new SD card you have installed on Kindle.

Now - let's see your Kindle and get ready to save some files to your SD memory card. Here are the steps you can follow to do this:

A. Switch on your Kindle

B. Move the scroll wheel to "Menu" and press to select the Main Menu

C. Scroll to "Content Manager" on the Main Menu the press to select the Content Manager

D. After the Content Manager screen opens, see a list of audio books and e-books - pay specific attention to the storage location of the book listed directly below the first word of the title –

1)"Kindle" - the book is stored in your Kindle's main memory

2)"SD Card" - any books you have moved to your SD Card will have this location

  3)"Amazon" - books you've bought but that have not been downloaded to your Kindle will have this location

E. Select the book now located on your Kindle by scrolling to the location of the book and press the scroll wheel to "choose" the book. When you do this you will see an "x" in the box immediately to the right of the book's title.

F. Next scroll back to "Menu" at the bottom of the Kindle screen and press the scroll wheel to select.

G. When the Menu opens, scroll to "Move to SD Card" and press the scroll wheel to select.

H. Once you do this you will notice the location icon will show the book is being transferred to your Kindle's SD memory card. For example you will see an arrow pointing from the location of the "Kindle" to the location of the SD Card.

I. When this step is complete an icon site under the title will change from "Kindle" to "SD Card" - this is how you know the transfer process is complete.

That's all there is to it! Now we have learned how-to quickly save the books from your Kindle's main memory to SD Card you have installed on the Kindle. Complete instructions with pictures/photos can be found on the web site in the resource box below.