Kindle improvement
January 13th 2012 00:30
We've just been overseas for the first time in some years. We wanted to put a couple of documents on our Kindle, so that we had a backup of these while we were away.
This wasn't too difficult, though we had to remember what our specific Kindle email address was in order to do it; once we'd attached the document to the email, Amazon sorted its format out and sent it back to our Kindle.
Now they've improved the method and instead of going through email you can add an application to your computer called Send to Kindle (which is self-explanatory, at least, unlike some application names). When you want to send a document you have two choices: if you're already in the document, just 'print' it. When your print options come up, just choose 'Send to Kindle' and Amazon will do the rest.
It will check if you want to send it to your own Kindle and/or to any others on your account (at present both my wife and I have Kindles). You then click on Send, and there's a little announcement telling you it'll take a moment or two while Amazon sorts the format out, and voila! the job is done.
If you're not in the document, you can just go to Internet Explorer (or its equivalent) and right click on the document from there. I've tried both methods, and the first seems to work best. At the moment, I'm struggling to find the 'Send to Kindle' option when I right click on a document. I'll persevere; I'm sure it's there somewhere. And curiously, the docs I've sent to Kindle haven't yet appeared on my Kindle machine. I wonder if they're suffering from overload?
I'll keep you posted.
This wasn't too difficult, though we had to remember what our specific Kindle email address was in order to do it; once we'd attached the document to the email, Amazon sorted its format out and sent it back to our Kindle.
Now they've improved the method and instead of going through email you can add an application to your computer called Send to Kindle (which is self-explanatory, at least, unlike some application names). When you want to send a document you have two choices: if you're already in the document, just 'print' it. When your print options come up, just choose 'Send to Kindle' and Amazon will do the rest.
It will check if you want to send it to your own Kindle and/or to any others on your account (at present both my wife and I have Kindles). You then click on Send, and there's a little announcement telling you it'll take a moment or two while Amazon sorts the format out, and voila! the job is done.
If you're not in the document, you can just go to Internet Explorer (or its equivalent) and right click on the document from there. I've tried both methods, and the first seems to work best. At the moment, I'm struggling to find the 'Send to Kindle' option when I right click on a document. I'll persevere; I'm sure it's there somewhere. And curiously, the docs I've sent to Kindle haven't yet appeared on my Kindle machine. I wonder if they're suffering from overload?
I'll keep you posted.
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