I spent several hours trying to get that set up using the Kindle for iPhone app. Every time I clicked on the link I'd wind up going around and around and finally just gave up. Hopefully, Amazon will get it fixed. I was trying to add my daughter's Kindle email address to the approved senders list and never got it to work so if anybody manages to do it, I'd appreciate it if you would share how you managed it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Esther To: VIPhone Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 8:04 PM Subject: Kindle Personal Document Services
Hello, Another feature of the Kindle app that I haven't seen discussed here is the Kindle Personal Document Services. You get up to 5GB of free personal document storage space in the cloud associated with your account, and bookmarks and annotations can be synced across your Kindle App on various devices. The Kindle Personal Document Service can deliver (and optionally convert to Kindle format) the following types of documents, which you can email to yourself as attachments using the unique "Send-to-Kindle Email Address" that was created for your account, and that is listed under you Settings: Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx) Rich Text Format (.rtf) HTML (.htm, .html) Text (.txt) documents Archived documents (zip , x-zip) and compressed archived documents Mobi book Adobe PDF (.pdf) can be converted to Kindle format and delivered on an experimental basis. While we have other apps that can read and manage many of these formats on iOS devices, this is another feature that can be explored. Given the favorable experience many users have reported of reading Braille in the Kindle app, this might be a desirable option. If you double tap the "Settings" button at the borrom right corner of your main Kindle app screen, you'll find a "Send-to-Kindle Email Address" that will be some user name, usually with a number appended, at kindle.com Emailed attachments that are sent that address will show up in your "Docs" Library, which is one of the libraries, along with "Books" and "Newsstand" that you can select for your device. However, since Amazon charges for additions to your Kindle or Kindle app that are sent over their 3G network ($.15 per megabyte in the U.S.), in order to make sure your documents are only synced over when Wi-Fi is available, to avoid these charges, change the email address listed in your Settings page to go to "free.amazon.com" instead of "amazon.com". For example, if the name associated with your iPhone Kindle app is "joey_555 at amazon.com" (where I'm spelling out the "at" in the email address, so this information is not blocked for people reading the list from the web site), email the attached document you want to appear in your "Docs" library as part of your Personal Document Services to "joey_555 at free.amazon.com". The first part of the email address is uniquely associated with your account and device. If you have an iPad with the Amazon Kindle app installed, it might have a slightly different "Send-to-Kindle Email Address" listed under the Settings, like "joey_1756 at amazon.com". Also, in order to prevent spam, only attachments that are emailed from addresses that you authorize will show up in your "Docs" library. This generally means that personal documents will only be accepted from the email you used to register your Kindle account. However, you can add other valid email accounts by logging into the "Manage Your Kindle" web page at: http://www.amazon.com/manageyourkindle and then activating the link for "Personal Document Settings" (Note, if you are using a Kindle Store in another country, change the URL prefix from "www.amazon.com" to the appropriate address, such as "www.amazon.co.uk" for the UK, "www.amazon.ca" for Canada, etc.) On the web page for "Personal Document Settings", navigate to the heading for "Approved Personal Document E-mail List" to read the list of approved email addresses. You can use the "Add a new approved e- mail address" link to add a different email. Helpful tips for personal document attachments: The file size of each attached personal document should be less than 50MB (before compression in a ZIP file) The email submitted should not contain more than 25 attached personal documents You do not need to include a subject line unless you wish to do so for your own records. The exception is if you want to "convert" your document to Kindle format. In this case you can type "convert" (without the quotes) as the subject for your email. The main reason for converting to Kindle format is to take advantage of the ability to highlight text and add notes. If you send a Word document as an attachment, it will show up in your Docs library, and your reading location and bookmarks can be synced across the Kindle app on various devices, assuming that you download the document from the "Cloud" onto your "device" in the other Kindle apps. However, you won't be able to highlight, make annotations, or use the dictionary for these other formats. The document appears fairly fast after your email -- within 2 minutes of my email when I was on a connected Wi-Fi network, even when I used the "convert" option. From the description on the Amazon support pages, personal documents usually show up in less than 5 minutes. However, I don't think that table of contents organization or navigation is supported unless you attached an eBook format, such as Mobi (Kindle-like format). There are other options (such as using 3G Whispersync at special rates), and downloading separate "Send to KIndle" applications for your computer, or using browser add-ons, but this is the simplest explanation I've found of using Personal Document Services in a way that is guaranteed to be free. HTH. Cheers, Esther -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. 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