Answers.Body: <p>I have Windows 10 and also use the PC software. Mine are stored in my "Documents" folder in subfolder "My Kindle Content". That would ordinarily be "%HOMEPATH%\Documents\My Kindle Content", but I have changed the location of my Documents folder to another drive.</p>
  
  <p>On the Kindle app's toolbar go to "Tools|Options..." and click on the "Content" tab. Here you will see the location of your files along with a button giving you the option to change that location.
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Answers.Text: this worked for me
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Answers.Text: The option to change folder is greyed out for me.
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Answers.Body: <p>I found mine (on Windows 10) in</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\My Kindle Content\
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>There's a sub-folder for each downloaded book, containing the .azw and .azw.res files (didn't see a .apnx file).</p>
  
  
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Amazon's Kindle for PC reader saves a copy of your books to your hard drive, once you download them. Note that you have to download them from the cloud; new books aren't downloaded to a device unless (1) you told Amazon to send that book to that device or (2) you downloaded the book from the app on that device.</p>
  
  <p><strong>By default, the books are saved in this folder:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle\application\content
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Replace <code>YOURUSERNAME</code> with your Windows username.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Typically, you will have two files per book: a <code>.apnx</code> and a <code>.azw</code>. Backup both of them.</strong> You may want to consider an automated backup service to backup these and your other files.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: What is **downloading from cloud**? How is it different from normal download? Do you mean that the ebook is downloaded temporarily on the computer and then gets deleted every time I turn the computer off?
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Answers.Text: Can I read the ebooks offline or do I have to stay connected to the internet whenever I want to read any ebook?
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Answers.Text: @Raj I just mean downloading it from Amazon; you have to download it in the app before you can read it on the PC. That's a one-time thing. Once you have downloaded it, the book will stay on your computer, and you can read it online or offline.
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Answers.Text: This answer seems to no longer apply to Windows too by the way, as the "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Amazon" folder doesn't exist (on Windows 8.1 at least).
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Body: <p>I am new to Amazon Kindle ebooks. I am using my computer to read Kindle ebooks. I am using Kindle-for-Pc software. I just downloaded an ebook, but I cannot find it anywhere. I need to find it so that I can backup in my flash drive, in case something happens to the computer. I can perfectly read the book from the Kindle-for-Pc program, but I need to find the actual ebook, since it was not free and I don't want to lose it. </p>
  
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Tags: <kindle>
Title: Where is my Ebook that I just bought from Amazon Kindle to my PC?
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ThreadText: # Where is my Ebook that I just bought from Amazon Kindle to my PC?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-11-13)
  
  I am new to Amazon Kindle ebooks. I am using my computer to read Kindle ebooks. I am using Kindle-for-Pc software. I just downloaded an ebook, but I cannot find it anywhere. I need to find it so that I can backup in my flash drive, in case something happens to the computer. I can perfectly read the book from the Kindle-for-Pc program, but I need to find the actual ebook, since it was not free and I don't want to lose it.
  
  **Tags:** kindle
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: This answer provides some great insight and help too: https://askubuntu.com/a/1012193/327339  
  
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  ## 3 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_6 on 2015-11-13. Score: 12 | Accepted answer
  
  Amazon's Kindle for PC reader saves a copy of your books to your hard drive, once you download them. Note that you have to download them from the cloud; new books aren't downloaded to a device unless (1) you told Amazon to send that book to that device or (2) you downloaded the book from the app on that device.
  
  **By default, the books are saved in this folder:**
  
  ```
  C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle\application\content
  
  ```
  
  Replace `YOURUSERNAME` with your Windows username.
  
  **Typically, you will have two files per book: a `.apnx` and a `.azw`. Backup both of them.** You may want to consider an automated backup service to backup these and your other files.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: What is **downloading from cloud**? How is it different from normal download? Do you mean that the ebook is downloaded temporarily on the computer and then gets deleted every time I turn the computer off?  
  > **username_0**: Can I read the ebooks offline or do I have to stay connected to the internet whenever I want to read any ebook?  
  > **username_6**: @Raj I just mean downloading it from Amazon; you have to download it in the app before you can read it on the PC. That's a one-time thing. Once you have downloaded it, the book will stay on your computer, and you can read it online or offline.  
  > **username_7**: Nope, not in that folder! Any other location suggestions?  
  > **username_1**: What's the directory for Linux Ubuntu?  
  > **username_1**: This answer seems to no longer apply to Windows too by the way, as the "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Amazon" folder doesn't exist (on Windows 8.1 at least).  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-10-14. Score: 16
  
  I have Windows 10 and also use the PC software. Mine are stored in my "Documents" folder in subfolder "My Kindle Content". That would ordinarily be "%HOMEPATH%\Documents\My Kindle Content", but I have changed the location of my Documents folder to another drive.
  
  On the Kindle app's toolbar go to "Tools|Options..." and click on the "Content" tab. Here you will see the location of your files along with a button giving you the option to change that location.
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/nsyYa.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/nsyYa.jpg)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: this worked for me  
  > **username_4**: The option to change folder is greyed out for me.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_5 on 2017-05-26. Score: 6
  
  I found mine (on Windows 10) in
  
  ```
  C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\My Kindle Content\
  
  ```
  
  There's a sub-folder for each downloaded book, containing the .azw and .azw.res files (didn't see a .apnx file).
  
  
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