Your Kindle has its very own unique email address, and for a small fee, you can send files to this special email address. Amazon will then convert the file to a nice Kindle fomat, then send the final converted file to your Kindle via whispernet.
To see and/or edit your Kindle's email address:
- Go to Amazon.com
- Click Your Account at the top right of the web page.
- Sign into your Amazon account.
- Scroll down the Digital Content area.
- Click Manage Your Kindle.
Your Kindle's email address will be listed in one of the top sections in the Your Kindle(s) area. You will see your Kindle listed with an email address in the block to the right, something like your_kindle@kindle.com. This is the email address you can send special files (as an attachment) to be converted by amazon and sent automatically to that Kindle. There is a small fee for this, I think about 15 cents per Mb of file size. The average document file won't come close to a Mb in size. The price is not bad, but if you send a lot of files to be converted, it could add up. Here is the latest information (from Amazon) I could find on the actual fees...
- Kindle (U.S.Wireless) user: We'll send personal documents to your Kindle via Whispernet while inside the U.S. wireless coverage area for a fee of $.15 per megabyte.
- Kindle (Free 3G) user living in the United States: If you transfer personal documents to your Kindle via Whispernet while inside the United States, the fee is $.15 per megabyte. When travelling outside the United States, a fee of $.99 per megabyte will apply.
- Kindle (Free 3G) user living outside the United States: We'll send personal files to your Kindle via Whispernet for a fee of $.99 (USD) per megabyte anywhere in the world you access Whispernet service.
Fees are rounded up to the next whole MB and apply to each personal document delivered via Whispernet to each Kindle. You can transfer personal documents to your Kindle via USB for free at anytime.
Setting your Personal Document Charge Limit
You have the option to set the maximum amount you wish to pay per document for the Personal Document Service. If the conversion fee for any single document you e-mail for wireless delivery to your Kindle via Whispernet exceeds the maximum, the document will be sent to your @free.kindle.com address and a notification will be sent to your Kindle.
This Personal Document Charge Limit is a great way for you to take control. You can set this to any amount you want in the same Manage Your Kindle area. Just type in the amount you want to set for a limit and relax from then on.
The FREE Alternative:
Send the file to your special Kindle email address, only instead of @kindle.com, change the end of the email address to @free.kindle.com. After sending to the @free.kindle.com email address, a link to the converted file will be emailed to your email associated with your Amazon.com account. You can then click the link, download the converted file to your computer, then transfer it to your Kindle with your USB cable.
Supported Formats for Conversion by Amazon:
- Microsoft Word: .doc, .docx
- Text: .txt
- RTF: (rich text format) .rtf
- Structured HTML: .html, .htm
- Picture files are also listed as file formats for conversion, but honestly, I don't know why these would be needed. These file are not books. At any rate, these formats (if you want to experiment with having them converted) are .jpg, .gif, .png and .bmp files.
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