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Question

Can not down load Kindle Ebook to Windows PC

Jan 16, 2014 6:03AM PST

My Kindle has been activated and registered. I have sucessfully downloaded an ebook from My Library (Amazon) at a WIFI site.
Now I want to download another book, from home where I do not have WIFI, on to my PC. Then load it to my Kindle.
I have followed the Kindle suggested steps below:
"1.Visit Manage Your Kindle and locate the Kindle content you want to transfer to your Kindle.
2.From the Actions drop-down, click Download & Transfer via USB.
3.From the drop-down, select your Kindle, and then click Download.
Be sure you remember which folder you download your content file to. You will transfer your Kindle content from this folder to your Kindle. "

I do these steps, but I do not think the download is being accomplished, because I can not find the 'file' for "How To Tell A Story and ..........." in My Documents, even with a file search.
(My PC is a Windows XP SP3, Internet Explorer 8, connected to an ATT modem DSL(non WIFI)). Someone has told me it should show up in a "Downloaded Files" Folder. I do not have such a Folder in 'My Documents".
Should I create this folder, or is it on my computer somewhere? Or do I have a entirely different problem that prevents the download to my PC.

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Clarification Request
Can not down load Kindle Ebook to Windows PC
Jan 17, 2014 5:08AM PST

UPDATE UPDATE

Turns out my PC will download an ebook and transfer to the Kindle, from Gutenberg.org. Must be a Kindle website problem. Thanks for the suggestions.

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Answer
Re: download
Jan 16, 2014 6:40AM PST

With me, in Windows XP, using IE8, it's the My Document>Downloads folder.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie8-windows_xp/change-directory-where-internet-explorer-8/368d6cb3-bb35-483d-ab54-8d548a8d0024?msgId=9e39393c-e32e-4862-9e39-89c0552a05fb tells that - when downloading - you can change the proposed location. To see what it was, download something else and note what it proposes (or change it to something else you prefer). Or run regedit and look there (but don't change anything: just look and only look).

Kees

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Can not down load Kindle Ebook to Windows PC
Jan 16, 2014 7:20AM PST

Kees, That is my basic problem (I think). I can not find a Downloads folder in My Documents. How do I obtain such a folder? If I create one, will it be recognized as the default download location? Since/if it is nonexistent, can I get it solved thru a Windows XP update?

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Re: downloads folder
Jan 17, 2014 2:52AM PST

That folder is created by Internet Explorer if it needs it. So if you don't have it, apparently it doesn't need it because it puts the downloaded file somewhere else.
Creating it yourself seems useless, Windows update surely won't make it.

All you can do:
- search for the downloaded file on your whole hard disk
- look in the registry what the download location is (see the link in my post above)
- carefully read everything that's on the screen before and after the download and see if mentions a folder or has a button like "open folder".
There's a good chance to find it.

Kees