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Originally Posted by MickeyMark
Are you able to set things up so various news/internet feeds automatically send articles to your Kindle as personal documents?
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Well, until today, I always thought I was sending it just like it the article was a short book. A book and a personal document were one and the same to me. But the answer to your question is: Yes.
There are a lot of options, and a learning curve, to getting the most out of the Kindle, just like any other computer. Or, if you want, you can, without shame, use the Kindle for the one purpose of reading books.
The Schedule for Download option in the Fetch News feature of the free Calibre software (
http://calibre-ebook.com/) is popular here. I use it. If you used to be a PDA person, this Calibre feature resembles the service of the late great AvantGo.com, and is maybe better. This board has an active Calibre forum.
Instapaper and klip.me are also worth looking at. But, at least how I use them, they are for scouting out high text content web pages for later reading. With these tools, you do your web browsing where it is best done -- on a PC or Mac -- and then do your reading where it is best done, on the Kindle.
Do not miss the "Links Every Kindle Owner Should Have" sticky thread in this forum.
There are a lot more discoveries about how to use the Kindle that remain to be made.