After I detailed the ins and outs of the on Thursday, I got a letter from Macworld reader Gerald A. Wingrove, who is intrigued by the Kindle but unclear how it works with his Mac. Since this is Macworld, after all, I thought it was worth a refresher about how the Kindle and the Mac interact.

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Gerald writes: Over the years I have made great use of the free books available on the Gutenberg website. Is it possible, with a Kindle via the internet, to take onboard for reading, books from Gutenberg? As the Kindle has a USB port, is it possible to connect it to the G5 and have it appear on the desktop, so that PDF and MP3 files can be dragged and dropped into it for reading and listening to? Is it possible to buy and use a Kindle without getting ones self tied into the Amazon spider’s web?

The Kindle’s been around so long, I didn’t really consider how a lot of people have never seen one and plenty more have never attempted to attach it to a Mac. So let me clarify matters a little. Yes, the Kindle has a USB port. (In fact, the USB port doubles as a charging port—the Kindle power adapter is a plug with a USB port and a USB cable!) Plug one end of that USB cable into a Mac and the other into a Kindle, and the Kindle will announce it’s entering USB Drive Mode.

A new volume, called Kindle, will appear on your Mac. You can open it up and see the files inside.

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The key folders inside the Kindle volume are audible, documents, and music. The audible folder is where audiobook files from audible.com live. Music is a place where you can put MP3s and then play them back while you’re reading, and even listen via the Kindle’s headphone jack! But the most important folder is documents: this is where all your books, newspapers, and magazines live.

If you’ve bought stuff from Amazon and downloaded it onto your Kindle, you’ll see that stuff in the folder. But you can also drag book files right from your Mac into that folder, assuming that they’re compatible with the Kindle. Kindle only reads books in the Mobi, PRC, and plain-text formats. (You can also drag in PDFs, but I generally don’t recommend it. Kindle does a bad job with PDFs.) The good news is, Project Gutenberg and many other ebook resources offer downloads in a Kindle compatible format, usually Mobi.