Kindle: How to send books and documents to your ereader
Phones and tablets aren’t the best tools for reading articles online. Many flagships use OLED displays, which may cause eye strain when used for too long. A better alternative is ahigh-quality e-readerbuilt with E Ink technology, which illuminates its display using ambient light.
Not all devices send web content to your e-reader the same way. On Android-based e-readers like Boox and Meebook, you’ll install an app from the Play Store to handle it. Kobo e-readers are preloaded with Pocket, which makes sending web content to your device quick and easy. Kindles require extra steps. Here’s how to transfer content to your Kindle, with tips on choosing one that works best for you.
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Prerequisite: Set up your Kindle account to receive documents
Before you can send web articles to your Kindle, you must set up your Amazon account so that it accepts incoming documents.
If you receive a validation when sending articles to your Kindle, the email address for your Kindle may not be random enough. Go to your Kindle preferences and change it to something unique with special characters.
One last option on this page you can fiddle with isPersonal Document Archiving.It can be modified at any time and impacts how your documents are handled:
You’re done setting up your Kindle account to receive documents and articles. Let’s see how to feed it some long reads that aren’t books.
Send to Kindle by Ktool: The most customizable option
Ktool is one of the most complete solutions for sending content to your Kindle. You can send a link or a document to convert it into a Kindle document using the Quick Send feature from the website or app. You can also ask it to queue content and compile it into a magazine that can be sent daily or weekly. An innovative feature is the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds through Ktool and have it compile content into a magazine or send it directly. Plus, you can share an article to your Kindle using the Android app.
The Ktool app may not be at the top of the Share menu. Tap and hold it to pin it to the top of the Share menu, making it easier to find the next time you want to send a post to your Kindle.
Ktool hasbrowser extensions, allowing you to send articles from your computer with just a click.
Send to Kindle by KTools offers a lot of features. A basic membership costs $36 a year or $5 a month. It allows you to send unlimited articles to your Kindle, use the QR code tool, gives you access to the browser extension, and retains your data for 30 days.
A premium membership li will set you back $48 per year or $7 a month. It includes all the features in the basic tier, custom digests and magazines, an ADHD mode, and unlimited newsletter subscriptions.
If you’re willing to pay $10 a month or $72 a year, Send to Kindle by KTools platinum subscription adds downloadable EPUBS, full-text search, and unlimited data retention to the mix.
Push to Kindle: Send articles and documents in one click
Push to Kindle is the simplest method of sending articles to your Kindle. It works using an Android app calledPush to Kindle. It’s easy to set up and works like a charm, both on your Android device and your phone. You can use an app to send anything to your Kindle using your Android or iOS device’s Share menu. You can also use a web browser extension for Firefox or Google Chrome or a bookmarklet for Safari that does the same on your computer.
You can send any article or blog post to your Kindle and Push to Kindle takes care of the formatting. It’s good at removing ads while keeping images in the post, making sending and reading content a pleasant experience.
If the Push to Kindle app isn’t at the top of the Share menu, tap and hold it to pin it to the top of the Share menu. It will be easy to find the next time you want to send a post to your Kindle.
you’re able to achieve the same process from any other device by downloading the appropriate browser extension, setting up abookmarklet, or emailing a link to your Push to Kindle address. The latter is the same as your Kindle address, just replace@kindle.comwith@pushtokindle.com. Sending a link to your regular @kindle.com address will not work.
Send posts by connecting the Push to Kindle app with the Kindle app on your phone. You don’t have to set up an email address before this. However, it involves two apps to send an article to your Kindle and makes it harder to email links to your Kindle without using the app.
There isn’t a catch for a third-party service to work efficiently. Still, the service is only free if you send less than 10 articles per month to your Kindle. When you reach this threshold, you must sign up for a paid subscription that costs $5 a month or $36 a year. The service is worth it if you read many articles on your Kindle, and it saves time compared to the second method explained below.
Amazon’s Send to Kindle: Free but finicky
Amazon has official apps and browser extensions that let you send content to your Kindle. Let’s start with theChrome extension, which is easy to set up and does the same as Push to Kindle, meaning it sends a distraction-free version of the article to Kindle. There are no costs associated with it.
it’s possible to only do this on a desktop browser. The app does not support sending an article from your phone. It only allows you to send documents, so save the article before sending it. While this is troublesome, it works fine as long as you don’t mind the extra steps.
you could also open the PDF file, select theMenuicon, and selectShare>Kindleto send the article to your Kindle. This option doesn’t convert it to the Amazon file format.
This method is free, but only convenient if you send articles from your computer. Otherwise, you’ll spend a lot of time converting and sending each article, which Push to Kindle does in a split second.
P2K: Keeping your Kindle in sync with Pocket
Unlike Kobo readers, Kindles don’t offer support forPocket. However, you can keep your reading list and articles in sync using a third-party service called P2K. It’s customizable and lets you decide how articles should be delivered to your Kindle.
it’s possible to schedule ad-hoc, daily, weekly, or automatic deliveries. There’s a free membership tier that allows you to send a limited number of articles, but you do not have access to customization options. The Premium and Platinum subscriptions, which cost $3 and $5 per month, lift most or all these limitations.
The free version only sends a single file to your Kindle every day or week, called “Your P2K articles [date].” This e-book contains a table of contents with the various articles you sent. Your deliveries are capped at five per week, with a maximum of ten articles for each delivery.
The Premium subscription lifts these limits and lets you customize delivery titles but doesn’t sync articles as they’re added. To do this, you’ll need the Platinum membership to sync items individually and in real time, meaning that when you add an article to Pocket, it lands on your Kindle within a few minutes and appears as an individual item.
Regardless of your plan, each article has links that let you Archive or Favorite the item in Pocket from your Kindle, provided the latter is connected to Wi-Fi.
Now that you know how P2K works, here’s how to set it up:
Articles land on your Kindle momentarily. When reading them on your Kindle, you’ll see the Archive and Favorite links at the bottom of every article. These allow you to archive or favorite the article in your Pocket library without using another device. You must manually delete it from your Kindle if you don’t want it on there. If you archive an article using the Pocket app, it doesn’t remove it from your Kindle, and you’ll need to delete it manually.
This method is only useful if you use Pocket for a specific reason or bought a new Kindle and want to transfer your Pocket library. Otherwise, stick to the first two methods and replace the Pocket app with the Kindle app. It lets you read articles and books on your phone, tablet, computer, and reader while keeping everything in sync at no extra cost.
Make it easy on your eyes
Thereading experience on E Inkis superior in almost every way to your phone’s display, especially for saving your eyes from undue strain. Sending content to your Kindle can be tricky, so use the method that clicks with you and start reading on your e-reader.
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