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How To Transfer Files, Web Sites, Comics, and RSS Feeds to Your Amazon Kindle
Although Amazon would be pleased if you only used the Amazon Kindle Store to put documents on your Kindle, there are many other ways to put content on the popular device. Read on as we show you how. Don’t get us wrong, Amazon’s content delivery system is speedy and effective. If the price is right for the content they’re offering, delivery is quick and painless. What about when you want to add in content from other sources, though? Whether you have ebooks in incompatible formats, ebooks purchased from other retailers, general documents on your computer, web pages, or even RSS feeds you want transferred to your Kindle, we have a solution for you. Your Kindle doesn’t need to be a books-only-from-Amazon device! What You Need For this tutorial you won’t need much and, Kindle aside, it’s all free. To follow along you’ll need:
Direct File Transfer The simplest way to put files on your Kindle, outside of the Amazon content delivery system, is to simply copy them over. The Kindle supports the following document types natively: Kindle (.AZW and AZW1), Text (.TXT), Mobipocket (.MOBI and .PRC) and PDF. Note: If the Mobipocket file you have has some sort of Digital Rights Management (DRM) attached, you will not be able to load it on your Kindle without first breaking the DRM in some fashion or checking to see if there is a DRM-free copy available. If you have a file the Kindle can read all you need to do is plug the Kindle into your computer via the sync cable. The Kindle’s memory will mount just like a flash drive. Navigate to the directory /documents/ off the root directory of the device. Any compatible file you dump in this directory will be available on your Kindle once you safely eject the device from your computer. Note: if you dump a simple file, such as a text document, with no meta-data into the /documents/ folder, all you’ll see when you look at the document list on your Kindle is the file name. If you want cleaner meta-data and more organize experience you’ll want to use a program like Calibre, highlighted below, to ensure your Kindle gets the proper meta-data. Super Charging Your Direct File Transfers with Calibre Manually copying files is fine if you’re only copying a file or two. If you’re managing a large ebook collection, however, you really need a more robust solution than simply dragging files around by hand. As far as robust ebook management solutions go, it doesn’t get much better than Calibre. It’s an open source application available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux users that, for lack of a better analogy, works for ebook readers like iTunes works for iOS devices. It supports 22 ebook formats—from MOBI to LIT to EPUB and everything in between—and makes managing a book collection, large or small, a pleasure. Calibre is by no means a Kindle-exclusive tool (you can use it for a Nook, Sony ebook reader, etc.) but it really shines as a tool for extending the reach and utility of your Kindle. While Calibre is best known for converting ebook formats and managing ebook collections, it has a host of lesser known features including an RSS-to-ebook function. The RSS tool essentially takes chunks of the RSS feed in question and converts them, similar to a digest-style email, into a single ebook document. You can read more about the the RSS functionality here. Employ Specialized PDF Conversion For Enhanced Kindle Reading When it comes to PDF files, things either go really well or really poorly on the Kindle. Some PDF files are formatted in such a fashion that they make the leap from a computer screen to a small e-ink screen pretty flawlessly. Other PDF files are formatted in such a fashion that, when scaled, smashed, and otherwise man-handled onto the small Kindle screen the results are a hot mess of tiny fonts and poorly rendered design elements. You can use Calibre to convert PDF files into other formats. If Calibre has trouble with the design and layout of the PDF you can also use K2pdfopt to convert the file without attempting to reflow the design of the document. Optimize Comics For The Kindle Clearly the Kindle Fire is a superior choice, at least in the Kindle family, for reading comic books thanks to its color screen. That said, you can easily convert many comics into a format and resolution friendly with the other Kindles’ e-ink screens. The key is to start with high contrast comics (Manga and other predominantly line-art style comics are great for this)—converting Watchmen for the Kindle’s small black and white screen would yield a less than optimum result. Email Documents To Amazon For Conversion So far we’ve focused on techniques that require you to use the sync cable in order to transfer files from your computer directly to your device. You can email your document to Amazon’s servers where it is converted into a Kindle-friendly format and shuttled to your Kindle wirelessly. Note: there are two forms of wireless delivery, Whispernet and Wi-Fi. If you use Whispernet (Amazon’s 3G content delivery solution) to deliver your document conversions, you pay $0.15 per MB in the US and $0.99 per MB outside the US. If you, instead, opt for Wi-Fi delivery, you pay no service charge. Since we’re in no hurry to pay a premium for content that we can get converted and delivered for free, we’re going to show you how to use the free method. In order to get content converted and delivered for free you need to know the free-content email address for your Kindle. Login to your Amazon.com account and then go to the Manage Your Kindle –> Manage Devices page. On that page you’ll see the email address for each of your Kindles (only physical Kindles have one, not Kindle apps). You should see an email address that looks something like [email protected]. Simply append @free. to that email, to make it [email protected] in order to have your converted documents send for free via Wi-Fi instead of the pricier Whispernet. Before you begin using the service, you need to authorize your personal email to send content to your Kindle. If your email is [email protected], for example, you’ll need to tell Amazon.com that it’s really you at that address. To do so, go to Manage Your Kindle –> Personal Document Settings. Click on “Add a new approved e-mail address” at the bottom of the Personal Documents Settings sub-menu to add your address. To use the service you just need to send an email to [email protected] with the document you want converted attached to the email and “convert” as the subject line of the email. Amazon will convert the document and, the next time you’re in range of a Wi-Fi access point, it will sync the document to your device. Send To Kindle For PC Sends Documents From Windows Explorer If you’re on a Windows machine, Amazon recently released an application called Send to Kindle for PC. Essentially it’s just a syncing tool integrated into the context menu of Windows Explorer. You simply highlight the files, right click, and hit “Send to Kindle” to fire them off. Send to Kindle supports Microsoft Word (.DOC and DOCX), .TXT, .RTF, .JPG/JPEG, .PNG, .BMP, and .PDF. Shuttle Web Pages and RSS Feeds to Your Kindle With Third Party Tools The @free.kindle.com email address we highlighted earlier is also extremely useful for allowing third parties to send you free content. One of the best ways to take advantage of this is to set up a bookmarklet tool or authorize your favorite read-it-later type web app to access your Kindle. If you want to easily shuttle a web page you’re reading to your Kindle, there are several services that offer one-click bookmarklets for doing so.
Whether you’re using the sync cable, your Amazon email address to manually direct conversions, or enjoying nearly instant click-to-send web site to Kindle transfers via bookmarklet, you’ll never be left struggling to get a document on your Kindle. Thanks to Geek Jason Fitzpatrick
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