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You may think of your Kindle and Kindle apps for reading ebooks, but you can read a lot more than ebooks on them. You can read almost anything on your Kindle and Kindle apps including website articles, blog posts and personal documents. Recently, Amazon made sending content to your Kindle device and Kindle apps a whole lot easier.
What Is “Send to Kindle”
“Send to Kindle” gives you the ability to send content to your Kindle and Kindle apps from websites and from your computer.
You don’t need a Kindle to use Send to Kindle.
You can send blog posts, websites articles, and your personal documents to your Kindle and Kindle apps on your mobile devices, such as iPhone, iPad, and Android. Content sent using this service will be downloaded to your Kindle or mobile device so you can read it later, even when you’re not connected to the Internet.
How to Use Send to Kindle
Send to Kindle can be used with:
- Send to Kindle button
- Send to Kindle browser extension
- Send to Kindle from your computer
- Send to Kindle from Android
- Email to Kindle
Send to Kindle Button
Amazon recently launched this feature so you will be seeing more Send to Kindle buttons on websites. Click on the button and log into your Amazon account. You’ll then be shown a list of Kindle devices and Kindle apps where you can send the content. Choose where you want to send the article and click Send. The article will appear on your device the next time you turn it on and connect it to Wi-Fi.
The Wonder of Tech recently added a Send to Kindle button at the end of each article so you can send your favorite articles from here to read on your Kindle or Kindle apps.
Send to Kindle Browser Extension
You can now get a Send to Kindle browser extension so you can send articles from websites to your Kindle or Kindle apps, regardless of whether the site has a Send to Kindle button. Extensions are available for Chrome and Firefox. Here are the links for you to get the Send to Kindle as a Chrome extension and Firefox Add-on.
After you add the extension to your browser, you’ll see the Send to Kindle icon on your toolbar. Click on this when you visit a website to send the content to your Kindle device or app. You’ll be asked to sign in to your Amazon account and choose the device where you want the content to be sent.
Send to Kindle from Your Computer
You can send any document from your computer directly to your Kindle. Go to the Amazon Send to Kindle page and download software for your PC or Mac. Log in to your Amazon account and follow the instructions to send files to your Kindle from your computer.
Send to Kindle for Android
Download the latest version of the Kindle app onto your Android phone to send documents and website articles from your phone to your Kindle. Log into your Amazon account on your Kindle app. Then when you press the Share button using other apps, you’ll be offered the option of Send to Kindle in the Share menu.
More information about Send to Kindle on Android is available from the Send to Kindle for Android page at Amazon.
Send to Kindle via Email
You can email documents to your Kindle and Kindle apps. That’s right, your Kindle and Kindle apps have their very own email addresses. Amazon assigns an email address to each Kindle and device using a Kindle app. You can find your Kindle email address by going to amazon.com/myk and clicking on Manage Your Devices. There you will see the email addresses for the Kindles and devices with Kindle apps that are registered to your account.
You can change your Kindle email address by clicking on the Edit button and choosing a different one. You can choose any email address you want, so long as it isn’t taken. The email address will always be [name]@kindle.com.
Before you send a document to your Kindle device/app, you must add the email address you’re using to send the document to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List. This step is to avoid nasty spammers emailing documents to your Kindle. You can find this list at the bottom of the Manage Your Devices page. Click on Add a New Approved Email Address to add an email address to your approved list.
If you send PDF documents as email attachments to your Kindle’s email address, add the word “convert” to the subject line. Amazon will convert the PDF to a format compatible with your Kindle so you can use Kindle features such as Whispersync with your documents.
Documents are delivered when you connect your device to Wi-Fi. Amazon has a size limit of 50 MB per document
If you have a 3G Kindle, you can email documents to your Kindle to be downloaded even when you’re away from Wi-Fi but Amazon charges a fee for this service. The fees increase according to the size of the file, up to a maximum of $2.50 per document.
You can read more about emailing your personal documents to your Kindle at the Kindle Personal Documents Service page and at the Send to Kindle by E-mail page at Amazon.
What Else You Need to Know
Send to Kindle is free if you use Wi-Fi to download your content. After the download is finished, your content will be available on your Kindle/mobile device to be read even when you’re not connected to the Internet.
You can send content to more than one device and use Whispersync to sync your reading, highlights and notes between devices.
Not all file formats are supported for all methods of Send to Kindle. Check the Send to Kindle page at Amazon to learn which formats are supported where.
You cannot use Send to Kindle to send content to your Kindle app on your PC or Mac.
If one of your registered Kindle devices or Kindle apps isn’t showing as an option to receive the content, check to make sure that your device has been updated to the latest version of software or app.
Note to Bloggers
If you want to get a Send to Kindle button for your blog, you can get the code from Amazon at their developer’s page. The Send to Kindle button is also offered as an option in the Share Juice Pro plugin. Update: This feature of Share Juice Pro will be available in an update coming soon!
You can also find out about setting up a Kindle subscription to your blog from this article on Squidoo, Kindle My Blog: How to Publish Your Blog on the Amazon Kindle.
Bottom Line
Your Kindle devices and Kindle apps aren’t just for ebooks. You can easily send articles, blog posts, documents, and other content to your Kindle and Kindle apps to read when you’re on the go and off-line.
Have you used Send to Kindle? Do you enjoy reading content on your Kindle and Kindle apps? Have you ever emailed a document to your Kindle or Kindle app? Let us know in the Comments section below!
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Update to Kindle App for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
Amazon recently updated its Kindle app for iOS to make Kindle books available for those who are blind or visually impaired. Readers can now use the VoiceOver accessibility feature of their iOS devices to read Kindle books aloud, navigate, highlight, and look up words using the Kindle dictionary and Wikipedia. Readers can also use X-Ray, highlighting and bookmarking using the accessibility features.
To use these features, enable VoiceOver in Settings on your iOS device.
Settings => General => Accessibility => VoiceOver => On
More information about the iOS update can be found in Amazon’s press release about the iOS update.
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* Tablets and phones image by Zak Mensah
I heard about this the other day, but didn’t really know what was involved. Great post and thanks for all the details. I’m going to add the button to my site on Sunday!
I’m sure that people who love their Kindles will appreciate the feature being part of my blog.
Thanks!
Hi Brian, Yes, I had received some questions about Send to Kindle even before I added it to The Wonder of Tech. It’s a great feature to offer your readers so they can send your articles to their Kindles, phones or tablets to read offline or when they’re on the go.
I hope your readers enjoy your Send to Kindle button, Brian!
Carolyn,
Thanks for all your helpful information. What a great idea! Just sent this one to my Kindle.
Hi Penelope, I’m so glad this was helpful to you. Enjoy reading this article on your Kindle! 🙂
That is so cool Carolyn and I was wondering what the purpose of that was but I also figured that I would wait until you wrote about it. I just installed the app on my iPhone so I’m excited to have some of my reading available for me so I don’t have to go in search of it now.
Thanks so much for informing us about this and to Ashvini for including it in his fabulous plug-in.
~Adrienne
Hi Adrienne, Yes, you will enjoy having the Kindle app on your iPhone and making good use of Send to Kindle so you can read blog posts on the go.
I jumped the gun a bit with announcing that Send to Kindle is available on Share Juice Pro. Ashvini was testing it here at The Wonder of Tech and will be adding it as an update to Share Juice Pro within a few days. But it has worked without a glitch here, I’ve tested it myself and it sends Wonder of Tech articles to my Kindle and Kindle apps every time.
Hi Carolyn,
That’s interesting, but I’m going in the other direction. I’ve decided to download my Amazon purchases to my laptop rather than my kindle (bigger screen and easier access to google and other websites that I might want to frequent while reading). I Iike my kindle but I love the additional capabilites of my laptop. Of course the kindle is a little bit more portable but I don’t mind hauling around a laptop.
Riley
Hi Riley, I’m glad you found the best place for your reading. Yes, you can read using the Kindle app on your computer but you can’t use the Send to Kindle feature to send content to your Kindle app on your computer. You may not need to though if you are reading the content on your computer through your browser.
I have never read a book either on my computer or my iPad. I have read books on the Kindle and on apps on my iPhone and on PDA’s in the past. I find both the computer and iPad too distracting with so many other avenues of entertainment available.
Yes, the Kindle is more portable than a laptop but not everyone need to be mobile!
Hey Carolyn
This is a great idea.
I read on Bob Dunn’s blog about another WordPress plugin that could do this the other day. I hadn’t realised Ashvini’s plugin could do it already!
I’ve just been doing some spring cleaning of my plugins etc so I’d probably go for the code from Amazon. I’m going to add this to my to do list for tomorrow!
Thanks for sharing!
Hi Tim, Yes, you’re a coder so you can place the code easily on your blog. Me, I’m not a coder so I depend on those with coding skills to help me include features such as Send to Kindle on The Wonder of Tech.
I have updated this post because Share Juice Pro doesn’t yet include Send to Kindle for everyone. Apparently, Ashvini is testing the feature here before releasing it to everyone. So feel free to test it to help Ashvini with his testing. I have tested it and it has worked perfectly every time.
I look forward to seeing the Send to Kindle button at your blog, Tim!
Hi Tim,
When you’ve figured it out, perhaps you could do an idiot’s guide ‘how to’ post for non-techies like me!
Sue
Great idea, Sue. I think Tim should write a “how to” about adding a Send to Kindle button on blogs.
I have really come to enjoy using my Kindle and reading on it. This is a nice feature, very useful.
Hi Josh, Yes, this is a very useful feature, especially for Kindle fans. You can send your content to other mobile devices with Send to Kindle, but many people prefer reading on the eInk screen of the Kindle.
Brilliant idea. How “cleanly” is the content imported? Does it bring over ads, etc. or just the content? I have an ipad mini and use the reader mode in safari a lot but this is a good alternative.
Hi Brock, Welcome to The Wonder of Tech! The content is squeaky clean, just the content, no ads or sidebar widgets. With the browser extension you can preview the article as it will appear on your iPad Mini and change the font, background color, title, author and other settings before you send it. I hope you enjoy Send to Kindle, Brock. 🙂
Carolyn, the Send to Kindle button seems like a good idea for my blog. Also, thanks for the Squidoo article as well.
Hi Frank, Yes, your readers may find it very helpful for you to have a Send to Kindle button on your blog. They will be then able to read your articles on the go, even when they’re away from the Internet.
If you do set up a subscription for your blog on Kindle, I hope you get many subscribers, Frank!
Thanks for the kind words Carolyn. Got to say, I’m loving this blog more and more everyday.
Thanks, you made my day, Frank! 🙂
This is a really awesome tip Carolyn. I am still using my old Kindle, but I am only reading books on it. I use Pocket for my iPhone and iPad (and Mac) for everything else. But, I enjoy reading on my Kindle, so this is something I’m going to try today. And, I have been thinking of buying the paperwhite – but I am not sure if I really need it. The old one still works, it’s just that paperwhite seems to be a lot better 🙂
Hi Jens, I’m so glad you found this useful. Yes, you can use the Send to Kindle button to send articles to your Kindle and to the Kindle apps on your iPhone and iPad. Some people prefer the Kindle format to reading a blog online because then they have greater control over the look of the page and eliminate distractions.
I have a Kindle Keyboard 3G, but after I tried the Kindle Paperwhite for my review (https://wonderoftech.com/kindle-paperwhite/), I had to have a Paperwhite. The front-lit screen is so much easier to read than my Keyboard screen that I find I use the Kindle much more now. I still keep the Keyboard for its experimental browser feature when I travel overseas. That’s very handy, but for reading, the Paperwhite is definitely my favorite.
I’ve just downloaded the app to my iphone and I cannot wait to give it a try, I think that Kindle’s display is way much better for the eyes than the bright one from iPad, it would be really nice if I could view my favorite blog posts on my Kindle Fire:)
Hi Annelise, Welcome to The Wonder of Tech! Wow, with an iPhone, iPad and a Kindle Fire you have plenty of devices to send your documents and articles to read on. You could even send an article to all three of them.
Enjoy Send to Kindle, Annelise!
Hi,
It’s good to know you can send artcles, blogposts etc on your Kindle and read them when you are on the go. It can be very useful when you are a freelancer or an internet marketer and you need to be in touch with your business all the time.
As for me, I like very much to use a computer but, when I’m on the go or simple get out of my room and have a walk, I like to clear my mind from any computers, internet, devices or sms things.. . I like to enjoy nature, to look at the sky, to talk to people etc. Moderation is the key. Have a nice day.
Hi Silviu, Excellent point. By having important articles on your Kindle, you can use them as a resource and refer back to them any time, even when you’re away from the Internet.
You’re right, it’s important to unplug and enjoy the real world every so often. So true!
Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing your uplifting thoughts with us, Silviu. You have a nice day ahead too!
Hi Carolyn,
Send to kindle is awesome but it was because of you that I got the hang of its awesomeness :). It was a last minute addition to Share Juice Pro and it is awesome that it looks so great on the share bar. Thanks for the input , testing and using it.
The 2.0 is available for download from the website, however I will be making official announcement sometimes this week :).
Thanks and have a great day .
Hi Ashvini, Well there is nothing I like better than a developer who grants me my every wish! I remember when I first came to you with my wish list for a sharing plugin and how you gave me all of the sharing buttons I asked for. You even put the Pinterest buttons right on the images and made them work on mobile devices.
I am so glad you were able to add Send to Kindle to Share Juice Pro. I was very excited when I learned that Amazon was able to provide that code to bloggers and I knew who could make the best use of that code!
Thanks again for your awesome plugin and all of your support, Ashvini!
Thanks for the informative post! I think a lot of people have been waiting for a feature like this and it’s finally here. It will be nice to log in and click send to Kindle and go back and read what you sent when you have more time.
Hi Jamie, Welcome to The Wonder of Tech! Yes, this feature for Kindle has been well received. Good point, often you discover articles you want to read later and Send to Kindle can help you do that easily.
Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comment, Jamie.
Hi Carolyn – another great share.
I’d love to put the ‘send to Kindle’ button on my blog, but I’ve looked at the page on Amazon with the code and I’m afraid it’s beyond my technical capabilities at the moment. I’ll have to add it to my long-term ‘do list’ 🙂
Many thanks,
Sue
Hi Sue, Yes, not all of us are coders. I added the Send to Kindle button using Ashvini’s plugin, Share Juice Pro. I don’t know of any other plugins that offer Send to Kindle yet.
People who are big fans of reading on the Kindle app and on their Kindle ereaders could use the browser extension to send content from your blog to their Kindles.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your comment and for sharing this article on social media, Sue! Have a wonderful week ahead. 🙂