Thread: Can you send drm'd pdfs to the kindle?
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Old 03-20-2009, 02:05 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Elsi View Post
But I struggle to understand why someone would send a *Mobipocket* file to Amazon. Any conversion they would perform probably won't improve it.
There's really no conversion involved in emailing a mobi file to the Kindle, just a renaming.

Why do it?

1. Convenience. My Kindle generally "lives" in a part of the house far from my PC. So sometimes it is easier to just email a book to the Kindle rather than go grab it and plug it in. If the ebook vendor (such as Baen and Fictionwise) wants to handle this for me, so much the better. (But if I'm moving multiple books that are already on my computer, I'll plug it in and send via USB.)

2. Via a scheduled task, I generate and email my own daily "news" content in mobi format from a script I cobbled together. Nice to just have it appear on the device each day.
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