How to use Connect/Share?

[KDA1]

I've not been successful in setting up Connect/Share so that Calibre can be used to send books to myself.

Does anyone have a simple guide for how to configure Connect/Share?

[Synamon]

Here is the blurb on setting up an email account to send from calibre from the FAQ. Once you do that then add your @free.kindle.com email in Preferences > Sharing books by email. Don't forget to add your gmail address to your approved email list for your Amazon account (in Personal Documents Settings).

[KDA1]

Is there a way to set it up without using Gmail?

Do the emailed books get sent to the kindle.com address? That is...does Amazon "see" the books one sends using the Calibre mail thing?

[Synamon]

Originally Posted by KDA1

Is there a way to set it up without using Gmail?

You can try, but gmail is what the creator of calibre recommends. After much trial and error I managed to set mine up with a hotmail account when I had no luck with gmail.

Do the emailed books get sent to the kindle.com address? That is...does Amazon "see" the books one sends using the Calibre mail thing?

The books go through their server, so yeah, they can "see" them. If you have Personal Document Archiving enabled they'll be storing a copy on their cloud for you as well.

The @kindle.com address is sort of a clone of whatever email address you used to set up your Amazon account and its destination is your Kindle. If you use the @kindle.com address, then Amazon will send the document to your device using Whispernet (and charge you $0.15-0.99/MB depending where you are). If you use the @free.kindle.com address, then the document will download to your device the next time you turn on wifi. You'll also get an email from Amazon to the email address you used for your account with a link for the document that you can download to your computer and load via cable, in case you aren't able to connect to wifi.

If you are planning to email lots of books to your Kindle, I'd recommend manually using your regular email account and attaching 15-25 books at a time instead of using calibre. Calibre has a 5 minute delay per send built in, so that it doesn't get blocked by spam filters, which makes it very slow for sending more than a few books at a time. You also have the option of loading the books onto your device with a cable, of course.

[transmitthis]

That's cool.
Don't have a device yet, so know nothing of this, but from what you say it seems that you can upload some books and have Amazon/Kindle store them in a "doc library" (5GB limit)

Then wisper sync them down to your kindle. Is that right? Anyone in the UK use this?
(wondering if it's a good way to store/archive a few thousand books, if using a kindle of course)

[Synamon]

Originally Posted by transmitthis

That's cool.
Don't have a device yet, so know nothing of this, but from what you say it seems that you can upload some books and have Amazon/Kindle store them in a "doc library" (5GB limit)

Then wisper sync them down to your kindle. Is that right? Anyone in the UK use this?
(wondering if it's a good way to store/archive a few thousand books, if using a kindle of course)

Here is Amazon's info on their Personal Documents Service. I'm in Canada, so you don't have to be in the US for the @free.kindle.com wifi delivery, I presume it works the same in the UK as it does here. I see you plan to get an Android tablet, at the moment this only works with Kindles (3, 4, and Touch) and the Kindle for iPad, iPhone, and iPad apps, eventually I'd imagine they'll roll it out to the other 'Kindle for....' apps.