title_body: Possible to transfer Adobe Digital Edition ePUB books from my local library to my Kindle? I recently purchased a Kindle Paperwhite. My local library provides books in a variety of formats, ePUB and Kindle being 2 of them. For the Kindle I was able to transfer them without much effort to my Paperwhite. 
  
  However for the ePUB formatted books I had to download Adobe Digital Edition to download the books. Once I had the ePUB file on my Mac OSX laptop I could not determine how to transfer this file to my Kindle. 
  
  Is this possible?
  
  My research led me to 2 possible methods, one being to strip the DRM from the ePUB and then transfer the DRM free resulting PDF to the Kindle. The others methods were that it wasn't possible.
  
  Is there a better alternative that doesn't require me to strip the DRM from the ePUB file?
upvoted_answer: Your Kindle cannot handle .epub files.
  
  You could convert .epub to .mobi e.g. using Calibre, but this is only possible without DRM. There are also plugins to remove DRM, but using them is probably not legal in most jurisdictions.