How to read Google eBooks on a Kindle?

If you can drag and drop, I swear to God you can use Calibre. Why not download it and see how it works?

There are plugins for Calibre that will strip the drm from Amazon books, and all you have to do is install them, then add your Amazon book to Calibre. Then you can convert that file to whatever other format - epub,lit, lrf, pdf, etc.

Here's a pretty good table of http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix

Kindle is the new paper, at least to me. Whilst Calibre may look overwhelming at first, once you've familiarised yourself with certain tweaks that you'll often use, it's mostly a breeze to convert and copy digital papers onto your Kindle. I've read books on my old mobile before (Nokia C6-01) and it was a rather torturous experience for my eyes. Indeed, the codex is dead -- long live books.

Once I got the proper plug-ins set up on Calibre - which was easy, really - converting formats and stripping drm is just a matter of clicking a couple of buttons. There's way more under the hood, but I've never needed it and so don't fiddle with it. I can't comment on its handling of Google books, though, since I haven't tried that. Amazon is having a Kindle-related press event on Sept. 6th, so hold off for the moment to see what they're announcing. I have a Kindle Touch and lovelovelove it. I used to read on my phone and sneered at getting an ereader, but then we joined a credit union and they gave us Kindles as thanks, and now I'm a total convert. Downside: in order to read in the dark, you need a light. I know. But I got a little clip-on one that works just fine. Reading in full sun is no problem at all.

You can get a Kindle app for your PC or Mac, so if you are really worried you can test out a conversion in Calibre and make sure it works in your kindle app before buying a device. The only thing I've heard that Calibre won't convert is a book from iTunes.

Nthing that Calibre is really easy once you get in there and dig around. I was also overwhelmed when I first downloaded it, but now I'm all over it. Also, I can read Google books on my Kindle... or maybe it's because I converted them with Calibre... I forget. I just know I can read them on my Kindle Fire.

I may be missing something but I have a kindle and have used Calibre and I think that the one thing that people upthread have neglected is that it will not convert DRM protected e-pubs into the amz or mobi format (which can be read on a kindle) or convert amz (kindle) books to be read on another e-reader. You can strip the DRM, but this is an added step, which I believe you have to do before using Calibre. AFAIK it's not legal, but that's your call to make. I do sometime use Calibre + kindle to convert e-pubs that aren't DRM protected (they are usually free "classics") and PDFs of papers and presentations in my field. I've had mixed results with converting the PDFs. Sometimes the formatting gets so messed up that it becomes unreadable. All that being said, I got a kindle as a gift about 2 years ago and I use it all the time. It's a great size to slip in my bag and take on the train during my commutes or pull out at a restaurant when I'm dining alone. It's easier to manage than a big heavy book when I'm reading in bed, and I can read outside in the sunshine without the glare being a problem. But I did recently get an ipad and I'm looking forward to being able to have a broader choice of books from Overdrive (my library system is getting better, but the ebook selection is still pretty thin and this even more true for those available in the kindle format). I also prefer the larger format of the ipad for using cookbooks.

If you want an e-ink reader that plays nicely with Google books, what you want is a http://www.kobobooks.com/touch. This is one of the most popular e-ink readers outside of the USA. It works with Google books (without stripping the DRM). You can load both epubs and PDFs without converting them (though the PDF will not reflow without conversion to an ePub). It works extremely well with calibre. I haven't tested it personally with Overdrive library books, but I believe Kobo is supported.