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Originally Posted by GoSharks
This is interesting! To clarify, you mean I can e-mail a book (or other document) from Calibre to my Gmail, open it in my K2i browser and download it to my Kindle?
I've used my Kindle browser with Gmail quite a bit (since Yahoo Mail doesn't work), but I didn't realize I could actually download an attachment to my Kindle....really?  |
Really. It has to have certain allowed file extensions to be downloadable, like .mobi or .azw. The browser will actually tell you what file types are allowed if you try to download a prohibited one.
The same way you can directly download docs right from the library here on MR or Project Guttenberg, etc.
On the K2 browser, gmail presents simple direct links to the attachments, so it works smoothly. On the K3, Gmail tries to be fancy and open attachment in another window, which the Kindle won't do, so I have to access my Gmail through a proxy like skweezer.com, or presumably you use one of the hacks that work around the multiple window issue.
ApK
p.s. Note, as more people do this, and Amazon sees higher 3G costs, there is always the risk that they will block this "experimental" feature. Just saying.