#KINDLE TRANSFER BOOK USB PC#

a 4.9MB MP3 is currently at the 22 minute mark, and isn't even 50% complete. It took two hours to transfer 7.5MB in 21 books downloaded from. On Windows 7, I see the directories and can copy content, but it's only getting 2.28KB/sec, when it's transferring at all.

On Windows XP, my Kindle 2 shows up as a removable disc, but no directories are visible and I can't copy anything onto it. I would be very interested to hear from someone who is getting faster transfer speeds. It seems very strange to get such a wide variance in transfer speeds for two different Kindles. I asked this question on a different forum and one owner reported that he was able to transfer 50 MB in about 40 seconds. I'm not very happy with this answer as these speeds are worse than you would get with even a USB 1.1 device. I contacted Amazon Kindle support and, after checking with the developers, they reported back to me that the transfer speeds I am seeing are as expected for the device. Again, same slow transfer speeds in both cases.īy way of comparison, I transfered the same mp3 to an iPod and it took I have also transferred the file to the built-in memoryĪnd to an SD card.

#KINDLE TRANSFER BOOK USB PC#

I tried this from a PC (running Windows XP) and from a Mac (running OS X 10.5 and another unning OS X 10.4) with similar, For example, I transfered a 50 MB mp3 and it tookġ0-12 minutes. However, I haveĮxperienced very slow data transfer rates when transfering files over When sending files over the USB connection to the Kindle?Īccording to Amazon, the Kindle uses USB 2.0. I am curious to know what kind of transfer speeds others are getting

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