Instructions for downloading Universalis to PC (Windows)



Instructions for downloading Universalis to your PC/laptop

(with detailed instructions for Windows and the Kindle)

Access the e-books page on the Universalis website at

In the left-hand bar, click the version you need (‘Using Windows’ or ‘Using Mac’) and follow the instructions.

For Windows, you will need to download the Universalis program for Windows by clicking the link to the webpage and downloading the UnivWin.exe file onto your desktop. (Make sure you have enough storage space there; once the installation is finished, you can delete this file from the desktop.)

Once downloaded, activate the Universalis icon on your desktop and download the program files into the suggested (or a chosen) folder by clicking ‘Run’.

Go back to the Creating e-books on Windows page at and follow the instructions for creating the e-book.

Open the Universalis program by clicking the Universalis icon in the folder you have saved it into (the icon looks just like the icon you downloaded earlier onto your desktop). If you haven’t made changes during the download, you may find it in My Computer, C-drive, Program files, Universalis.

The page displaying today’s reading will open. Click the little arrow in the left top corner and choose your preferred settings by clicking ‘Calendars..’. This will open up a box that lets you navigate to the location whose calendar you want to choose, and you can tick boxes if you want to use the same Invitatory Psalm every day, use the Grail Psalms in the Liturgy of the Hours, use the New American Bible texts for the Mass readings, or show the Greek texts of the Gospels as well as English (although Greek letters may display incorrectly depending on your device).

Click the little arrow again and now choose the device for which you are creating the e-book, e.g., ‘Create Kindle (Mobipocket) e-book’ and whether you wish to save the readings for a day, week, month or the whole year. Choose the folder you want to save the file into and click ‘Save’.

You may, for example, decide to download a month’s worth of readings. The software automatically knows today’s date, so your file will be for the running month only. If you want to download subsequent months at the same sitting, just change the date at the top of the Universalis box by clicking the right (or left) arrow next to the number on the top bar. Once the date is changed to the month you want to download next, click the top left arrow, choose your e-book device and follow the steps as described above. Universalis provides a one-month free trial; to receive further readings, you need to purchase a personal register code for the Universalis Program (one-time licence fee of currently £19.99 for a PC and £14.99 for an iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch).

To transfer to your device, follow the instructions that came with your device for transferring e-book files from your PC to the device. This will normally involve plugging your device into your PC, and then dragging the e-book file from your desktop to a specific folder in the device — be aware that some e-book readers may require you to take additional steps after you have done this.

For Kindle users, please follow these steps:

1. Turn your Kindle on.

2. Connect the Kindle to your computer using the USB cable that came with your Kindle.

3. Your Kindle will appear on your screen. Open it, then open the documents folder within it.

4. Copy the .mobi file(s) from the folder you have saved it/them in into the Kindle’s documents folder - either by dragging and dropping or by copying and pasting: whichever you find more convenient.

5. When the USB activity indicator on your Kindle stops flashing, use the “Safely Remove Mass Storage Device” command on your computer (usually a little device icon in the bottom bar) to disconnect your Kindle from the computer.

6. When the Kindle has disappeared from your computer's screen and the USB activity indicator on the Kindle has stopped flashing, unplug the USB cable from your Kindle.

7. Your Universalis e-book(s) will now appear in your Kindle library.

You can read more about transferring files from your computer to your Kindle in sections 8.1 and 8.2 of your Kindle User's Guide.

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