[basil]

(01-10-2012 07:44 PM)basil Wrote:  

Download http://calibre-ebook.com/ and convert to .mobi
Then follow K-man's advice on how to add it to your kindle via USB, or if like me you cant be bothered doing that and you have your kindle connected to WiFi follow the guide here so you can email a file to your kindle and it will download it over WiFi for free.
If you find Calibre a bit intimidating to use then check out http://ebook.hamstersoft.com/ which basically uses the open source code from Calibre but strips away most of the complicated options and make it a lot easier to use.

Update:
Amazon may just have made things a shit load easier with this new bit of software they put out for PC users - http://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle
Basically you right click on a file it, click sent to kindle and it opens a box kinda like when you want to print. Give it the ok, the program converts it to native kindle format (azw) and sends it free to your kindle via wifi.
So far have tested with a mobi, pdf and word doc, results seem really good.
At this stage I'd suggest you un-check the box that says Archive Document in Your Kindle Library. The advatage of archiving I belive would be that you should be able to read and sync the document across not only your kindle but also kindle apps for smartphones and also the kindle cloud reader so you can read online. However this is possible because your document would be stored on amazons servers or 'cloud', if your document is an illegal copy, issues may in the future arise.
Check it out. Makes the whole process incredibly easy. You can have a downloaded file in almost any format on your kindle in bit over a minute, no hassle.