title_body: Is it more difficult to sideload books on to a Kindle Fire than other devices? I am considering a Kindle Fire, there is a review on Project Gutenberg suggesting it is needlessly (or intentionally) more complex to sideload free works on to a Fire.  In a comment to an answer on If I buy a Kindle Paperwhite do I have to get books from Amazon? a link to this article suggests it is really not that difficult. 
  
  Is the Kindle Fire more difficult to sideload to?
upvoted_answer: The Kindle Fire is not difficult to sideload to--at any rate, the 1st generation version that I have is trivially easy: just plug the Fire into the computer with a micro USB cable, it shows up as a drive, and drag .mobi files into the relevant folder on the Fire. Easy!