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changing kindle book covers tutorial

(figured it might help someone else out here other than my bestie who I made this for_<33)



APPS I USE// YOU NEED 

  • Calibre (book management/ cover changer)  


  • canva (I prefer this one for cover creation) 


  • 'send to kindle'  


  • any epub books/download website 



step 1) make a cover, I use canva with the measurements 1400x2200 


2) download Calibre, it's a book manager, lets you keep track of which books you have downloaded and like, you can rate them and edit them too :)) 

I use it to 1) change the covers and 2) send it to the 'send to kindle' amazon feature. it also checks that your downloads are safe :DD 


3) download the book you want, I use these sites: :)

  • epubbooks.com
  • Manybooks.com
  • Standard e books.com
  • Freebooksy.com


 (must be epub, if it is not you can use a epub converter like this one-)

download book to calibre by simply downloading any epub book and then 'dragging it' into the calibre app, it will do the rest!


4) changing the cover (optional)

step one, COPY the cover you want (this can even be a google image, I prefer to make and edit mine of canva, save it and THEN copy it) 

step two, right click on the preexisting cover and select 'PASTE COVER'...it should change it visually for you :) 

step three, right click the selected book on the calibre app, select 'EDIT BOOK', it should open a new window which shows every page


step four, right click the new cover on this tab and select 'REFRESH PREVIEW', this 'saves it' on the files :) 


4) open the 'send to kindle' web browser (https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle)

you'll need to login to whicher amazon account you have on your kindle- 

next you need to just 'drag and drop' the book from the calibre app-

it will download and check it is correct before letting you press 'send to kindle' , then all you have to do it wait for the process bar to say 'sent' before 'resyncing' your kindle and there ya go :DD 


girl I HOPE this all helps and makes sense bc it took me like an hour LMAOOOO, if not just text me obvs xo 


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