Is there any way to download ebooks from internet to Dropbox?

Dropbox is on the internet. On the face of it, it doesn’t make much sense to download something from the internet and then upload it to the internet again, so I figure you must mean something else.

Does your phone not have enough storage to hold multiple ebooks? The largest ebook file I have is about 40MB (for about a 600-page textbook), and my last phone could hold about 100 of those- that ought to be enough for a 10-day trip, assuming you read 10 600-page books a day.

There’s no way to make Dropbox’s servers download an ebook for you, unless you have special access to them (and if you were a Dropbox sysadmin I don’t think you’d be asking this question). Any such deal has to be done through your computer.

There’s a bunch of ways to get your computer to upload ebooks to Dropbox automatically, and I won’t go through a long list, but you might want to try out the If This Then That dropbox channel or make your own recipe there.

If you have Dropbox installed on your PC you will have a Dropbox folder under “Favourites”. Just save the e-book file into that folder and it’s automatically there without having to save a copy on your hard drive as well. Once it’s synched you will be able to access it on your phone.

A better solution might be to sign up with Amazon and use the Kindle app. That way you can read the books offline without burning through your data allocation.