How to Back Up My Kindle Book Collection to PDF Format

If you have a Kindle, you might have books in your collection in several file formats as the Kindle recognizes .azw, .mobi, .rtf, .pdf, .html, .txt and .doc. Books downloaded from Amazon come in the .azw format. Many of them have digital rights management and you cannot legally convert them to PDF for backup. However, you can use Calibre to back up any other book in your Kindle collection.

Things You'll Need

• Calibre
• Kindle USB cable

Instructions

1. Download and install Calibre from calibre-ebook.com. When finished installing the program, start it.

2. Connect your Kindle to your computer with the USB cable. Calibre will create a list of all of the books on your Kindle. This will take a few minutes.

3. Highlight the first book in the Calibre library. Press and hold "Shift." Press and hold the "Down" arrow to highlight all of the books in the library, then release both buttons.

4. Click "Convert Books."

5. Click the "Output Format" drop-down menu, and select "PDF."

6. Click "Convert." Calibre will convert the non-DRM books in your library to PDF.

Tips & Warnings

• You do not need to back up any Kindle book downloaded from Amazon. If you lose one, you can redownload it for free from Amazon.

References

• Calibre: Frequently Asked Questions

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish
• Calibre