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I'm continually amazed by the number of people who are determined to e-mail their books to the Kindle. In other threads, people were talking about e-mail Mobipocket books purchased elsewhere to the Kindle. I cannot believe that these people find it so difficult to plug the Kindle into the USB port on the PC and copy a book onto the Kindle.
The value of the e-mail offer from Amazon is that it includes *transformation* so that a personal file in a format that is not compatible with the Kindle can be converted to Mobipocket or Topaz. And for the Kindle owner who isn't technical and doesn't want to mess around with Mobipocket Reader, Mobipocket Creator, and Calibre, it makes sense to send the file to Amazon to be converted. But I struggle to understand why someone would send a *Mobipocket* file to Amazon. Any conversion they would perform probably won't improve it.
Since I'm not intimidated by the various software programs, I can make the same conversion. (Well, I'm still trying to grasp the regex stuff in Calibre for chapter detection.) I've only mailed one file to my Kindle, and that was just to compare their conversion to what I was producing.
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