The answer

Can reMarkable 2 read Kindle books out of the box

The short answer: no. Can reMarkable 2 read Kindle books natively, with the Kindle app or via Send to Kindle? It cannot. There is no Kindle app on reMarkable’s closed Linux-based OS, and there hasn’t been one since the reMarkable 1 launched in 2017. The same answer applies to the reMarkable Paper Pro, the Paper Pro Move, and the new Paper Pure that ships in June 2026. None of them run the Kindle app, none of them install Android software, and none of them open Amazon’s proprietary KFX, AZW, or AZW3 file formats. reMarkable’s own support article confirms this directly and explains the constraint.

The reason isn’t an oversight. Amazon’s Kindle books are DRM-protected, and the DRM is the entire reason the Kindle ecosystem holds together. reMarkable can’t ship a Kindle reader without licensing the format from Amazon, and Amazon licenses it almost exclusively to first-party Amazon devices and apps. Apple Books and Kobo’s catalog face the same wall in the opposite direction. This isn’t a reMarkable problem; it’s a Kindle policy.

What reMarkable does read natively: PDFs and ePubs. Both formats display cleanly, both support the standard reMarkable annotation tools (highlighting, underlining, handwriting on top), and both sync via the desktop app over WiFi. If you can get a book onto your reMarkable as a PDF or an ePub, it works as a first-class reading experience. The question is how you get there from a Kindle library.

Workaround 1

The Calibre and DRM-removal route

This is the workaround that comes up on every Reddit thread about reading Kindle books on reMarkable, and it works. The path is Kindle book on your computer, DRM removed, file converted to PDF or ePub, file dragged into the reMarkable desktop app. The end result is the book on your tablet, fully readable, with annotations.

  1. Install Calibre, the free open-source ebook manager, on your computer.
  2. Add a DRM-removal plugin to Calibre. The widely-used one is “DeDRM”; you’ll need to download the plugin separately and add it via Calibre, Preferences, Plugins, Load Plugin From File. Calibre maintains a list of compatible plugins; the project is well-documented but the legality varies by jurisdiction.
  3. Download the Kindle book to your computer using an older version of Kindle for PC or Mac. Newer Kindle apps changed the file format and broke many older DRM-removal scripts; older versions (Kindle for PC 1.31 or earlier) still produce files the tools can process.
  4. Import the AZW3 or KFX file into Calibre. With the DRM plugin active, Calibre strips the DRM on import.
  5. Right-click the book, choose Convert Books, and select PDF or ePub as the output format. PDF preserves layout (fixed page size); ePub reflows for the reMarkable’s native reader (better reading experience).
  6. Send the converted file to the reMarkable via the desktop app or Connect cloud sync.

The legality of step 2 (removing DRM from a book you’ve purchased) is a gray zone. In the US, the DMCA’s anti-circumvention rules technically prohibit it; the Library of Congress periodically grants exemptions for personal-use cases, and the practical risk for an individual reader stripping DRM from books they bought is essentially zero, but it isn’t strictly legal. In the UK, EU, and most of Asia, the rules vary similarly. We aren’t lawyers, and what we’d say is: this is the reader’s call. For sharing or selling DRM-stripped books, the answer is unambiguously no.

What you lose with this route: the Kindle ecosystem. No Whispersync to your phone, no Audible audiobook switching, no Kindle Unlimited integration, no annotations syncing back to Amazon. Each book is a one-way snapshot moment in time onto your reMarkable. For most readers that’s fine; for anyone who reads across multiple Kindle devices and wants Amazon to keep them in sync, it’s a real loss.

Workaround 2

The DRM-free book sourcing route

If the Calibre route feels uncomfortable or you’d rather not deal with the format conversion every time, the cleaner path is sourcing books in formats reMarkable already reads. Most readers underestimate how much of their library is available outside Amazon, and the difference between “reading Kindle books on reMarkable” and “reading the same books on reMarkable in a different format” is often just where you bought them.

  • Kobo. Most major-publisher books sold on Kindle are also sold on Kobo, often at the same price or cheaper. Kobo books download as ePub (with DRM, but Kobo’s DRM is Adobe’s standard ADEPT, which is widely supported by Calibre). For new purchases, buying on Kobo and dropping into reMarkable as PDF or ePub avoids the entire Kindle DRM step.
  • Project Gutenberg. 70,000+ classic and public-domain books, free, in PDF and ePub. The full catalog of basically anyone from Jane Austen to Mark Twain. Especially useful if your Kindle library is heavy on classics; you don’t need to convert what’s free in the right format.
  • OverDrive and Libby (library books). Library books usually download as ADEPT-protected ePubs, which Calibre handles cleanly. The OverDrive route lets you borrow books for free from your local library and read them on the reMarkable rather than the Kindle.
  • Publisher direct. Many academic and technical publishers (O’Reilly, Manning, MIT Press, Cambridge, Springer, university presses) sell DRM-free PDFs and ePubs directly. For technical reading, this is often a better route than Kindle anyway because PDFs preserve code formatting and figures.
  • Standard Ebooks. Polished, beautifully typeset versions of public-domain books in DRM-free ePub. The reading experience is much better than the typical Project Gutenberg file.

Workaround 3

The Kindle Cloud Reader browser route (limited)

The reMarkable browser is technically capable of opening Kindle Cloud Reader, Amazon’s web-based reading interface at read.amazon.com. In practice, this is a workaround we’d describe but not recommend. The reMarkable browser is functional but slow, the e-ink refresh handles JavaScript-heavy interfaces poorly, and Amazon’s Cloud Reader doesn’t gracefully degrade for low-refresh displays. You’ll get the book on screen, you won’t get a good reading experience, and there’s no annotation layer.

The one case this does work for: reading the first chapter or two of a book to decide whether to buy it. For full reading sessions, either of the workarounds above is meaningfully better.

Verdict

Should you bother with the workarounds, or pick a different device

If reading the Kindle catalog is more than 30 percent of what you’ll do with the device, the cleanest answer isn’t a workaround; it’s a different device. The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is the obvious one: it’s a Kindle, it reads every Kindle book natively, the writing surface is now genuinely good, and it’s $629.99. We’ve covered the head-to-head with the reMarkable Paper Pro in Kindle Scribe vs reMarkable 2 and the broader alternatives in reMarkable alternatives.

If reading Kindle books is occasional and the reMarkable’s writing experience is the real reason you bought it (or are buying it), the Calibre route plus the DRM-free sourcing route together cover almost any reading you’d actually want to do. The reMarkable Paper Pro, Paper Pro Move, and Paper Pure all read PDF and ePub equally well; the answer to “can reMarkable 2 read Kindle books” is the same on every model in the line. Pick the device that matches your writing needs (or the budget Paper Pure if writing isn’t even the point), and accept that Kindle reading on a reMarkable is a converted-book reading experience rather than a native one. For a refurbished reMarkable 2 specifically, our refurbished reMarkable 2 piece covers what’s still worth knowing about that device.

For broader Kindle Scribe alternatives if you’re considering switching, our Kindle Scribe alternatives roundup is the parent for that question. The reMarkable hub indexes the rest of the reMarkable content.

If you’ve found a cleaner workaround for reading Kindle books on a reMarkable than the routes above, drop it in the comments and we’ll add it. Amazon’s DRM and Calibre’s plugin landscape both shift every few months, and we’d rather have a current page than a tidy one. We’ll keep this in step with what’s actually working.