Before I owned an iPad, I read e-books—my hand to God—off an iPod Touch. I had to go primarily to e-books way back in 2006-7 because I was living overseas, and books in English were expensive and in short supply. Back in the day, I bought most of my books off Fictionwise (is that site even still around??).
Now, I’m a lazybones and buy almost exclusively off Amazon. Yes, there are some limitations to the Kindle software that I don’t love, but it’s just so darn easy! What can I say? Wireless makes me happy.
However, sometimes I end up with copies of books from other sources, and I tend to forget to read them because they aren’t in my nice little Kindle list. That’s bad for the author and bad for me. So a couple of weeks ago, I decided to figure out how to push those puppies to Kindle. Apparently, there’s a piece of software that supposed to do it, but it was a bust for me. What did work was a simple email. And I’m going to teach you how!
- Open Amazon.com
- Go to Your Account (Be sure you’re logged in!).
- Select Manage Your Kindle (Under the Digital Content section or on the pull-down menu when you hover over your account in the top right of the Amazon homepage).
4. Select Personal Document Settings from the left sidebar. This should show you your registered devices. To the right of your device name is an email address. That’s the magic Send-It-To-Kindle email addy!
5. Before you go all crazy, go to the Approved Personal Document Email List section and add any email address you’ll be sending documents/book FROM.
6. Email the file to that address. (The document file types you may send include: .AZW, .AZW1, .AZW3, .TXT, .MOBI, .PRC) **
7. Sync your Kindle, iPad, etc. over a wireless network.
8. These files will show up under “Docs” in the Kindle app. It may take several minutes, so be patient 🙂
For the full Amazon scoop on sending files to your Kindle, refer to this page.
**It’s come to my attention that some folks aren’t familiar with how to convert their e-book files from one file type to another. I’ll do a post soon on that topic!
NOTE: Reader beware: Most of this process should work for a regular Kindle, but all of my testing was done on an iPad.
Happy reading, y’all!
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