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Originally Posted by emai7s2
The idea behind this question is whether it is possible to store documents on the Kindle by sending them to yourself via email, rather than having to side-load them via USB.
So if I'm reading something on a computer away from home, can I just email it to myself and continue reading the document on the Kindle, or do I have to go home, physically connect my home computer to the Kindle and transfer the document that way?
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See Instapaper.com ... that can be done but there's the usual
whispernet cost.
If you mail a Kindle-compatible document to [you]@kindle.com (after giving your normal e-mail address authorization at Amazon's ManageYourKindle page to send to your Kindle), yes, it goes right on. I mentioned the formats that this will work for.
But that costs 15c per megabyte of a file to do in the U.S. for U.S. residents and it costs 99c per megabyte of a file to do outside the U.S. for non-USA residents. Most regular novels are about 800K so cost about 15c to do.
If you want it converted first (for example: formatted Word files to Kindle-readable format that recognizes the special Word formatting features), then you'd send it to either [you]@kindle.com (paid) or to [you]@free.kindle.com
In the latter free case Amazon does the conversion and then gives you a link to the converted file for download and then USB movement to your computer.
Now, as described at
http://bit.ly/kno_usb -- you can deposit a Kindle-compatible file (as described earlier and usually converted) at google.docs
and then use the Kindle to go there and download it if the extension is .txt, .mobi, .prc, .azw).
But if the extension is .pdf then it wouldn't download it.
Best is sending the pdf file to [you]@kindle.com if you want it to go direct to your Kindle and are aware of the costs.
Large PDF files, I just USB from computer-download over to the Kindle.
Now, if you want a PDF converted to .mobi and don't want to do it yourself and want it to arrive on your Kindle, then you send the file to [you]@kindle.com (once you're approved yourself for that) and put into the SUBJ field: "Convert"
As everyone knows, complex pdfs own't convert well, but a simple one-column book or doc should be fine. The converted file would arrive at your Kindle, for the 15c per megabyte.
Does that answer the question?