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

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[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!