Help with Calibre/Mobipocket Creator

[kellydeer.livejournal.com]

Mods - Please remove if you don't want this post here...didn't know where else to go *whines a little*

Anyway, last night I sent 3 fics to my Kindle e-ink reader (cheapy @ $79...have no idea what "generation" it is. That shit confuses me!) and it took like 2 hours for it to ever show up. This has never happened before, so in the meantime I started looking for alternative ways to place a fic on my Kindle via the USB cable. I ran across articles/discussion boards about Calibre & Mobipocket Creator. Needless to say, I still couldn't make it do what I wanted it to.

The Mobipocket would convert the Word Doc, but only to HTML and I could not find a place to change that setting regardless of what was stated on the different boards. I was trying to convert to an AZW file (which some said was the same as EPUB and I still don't know what the hell that is).

After failing with Mobipocket I downloaded Calibre and couldn't figure out how to work that either. Call me technically challenged, but I'm begging for some very simple directions on how to get a fic directly onto my Kindle without having to wait for my email. Is this even possible?

Any & all help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks :)

EDIT:  Much help found in the comments. I was successful with Calibre thanks to the most awesome josieb1

Comments

[bastdazbog.livejournal.com]

The simplist way for me to upload fics to my kindle is to convert the fic to mobi (which is kindle format) using this free site - http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-mobi
It is so easy to use, simply upload the fic you want to convert (make sure you fill out the "change ebook title" box with the title or it'll give you a title of letters and numbers) and in minutes, sometimes seconds, it's done. Then use a USB cable to move it on to your kindle. It will convert any file type to any other, including epub I think, but I have never tried epub files on my kindle. With my Kindle I read mobi, word doc, and pdf files. The mobi and pdf work the best. The word files are iffy for me.
The white cable that came with my first kindle plugged into my computer so I didn't have to buy a separate one, but with the Kindle Fire I had to buy a cable. It was a couple of dollars on amazon.
If you have any more questions I'd be glad to help. I also have a bunch of fics already converted to mobi if you want them to get you started.


edit: I use mobipocket reader to read the fics in mobi format on my computer, but I haven't used it for anything else.

[kellydeer.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that link. Josieb1 was actually able to help me with the Calibre thing, but I'll definitely email that link to myself in case I have to depend on someone else's computer that doesn't have Calibre.

It's always good to have alternatives...thanks muchly!