

They will then be able to start reading Getting a Kindle Ebook on to your Students’ Fire Tablets As mentioned above, if they don’t have an ereading app on their Chromebooks, the device will prompt them to install one which happens very quickly. If they don’t have Gmail addresses needed to use the shared Google drive, ask them to go to the free ebook website ask them to download the epub version for their Chromebooks or Android phones or iPads. See for instructions on the Google drive option.ĥ. Another way to distribute is by uploading the epub file to a shared Google drive, set the permission for the file to be shared with all users and then email the link to students. There is research that shows that struggling readers do better with larger fonts.Ĥ. I do this almost automatically when I open a new ebook. You might suggest that they immediately increase the size of the font in settings in the ebook app.

If they don’t have an ereading app on their Chromebooks, the device will prompt them to install one which happens very quickly.ģ. When they click on the ebook file, again the tablet will spring into action and want to install an ereading app. Another way is to download an epub file and then email it to students. If they don’t have an ereading app on their Chromebooks, the device will prompt them to install one which happens very quickly.Ģ. When they click on the ebook file that they have downloaded, the Chromebook or Android tablet will spring into action and want to install an ereading app. Find the ebook on the site which you want your students to read and send them the link such as Let’s start with the epub format used by Android, Apple and now Amazon devices. So how do students get an epub file to their devices.

If you insist on sending a mobi file to an Amazon device, you will get an error message in an email from Amazon. As of August 1, 2022, you can send epub files to your Kindle ereaders and Amazon Fire tablets. Amazon is reducing the use of the mobi format. Mobi was for Amazon devices epub was for everything else. Traditionally there were two ebook formats used on free ebook websites for you and your students to download: epub and mobi. The Easiest Ways to Get Ebooks to Students
