Hi Alan, I think the point of confusion may be that you don't use the Amazon Kindle App to make changes in your Kindle account settings. All of the actions for managing actions and adding other email addresses that you allow to send contents to your personal documents, managing your Kindle, and getting help, have to be taken at the Amazon web site. The email address listed under the Settings screen of your Kindle app is only used to tell you which unique email address has been assigned to your Kindle app for that device. I have no way of knowing what that would be for any other user. If you have the Kindle App installed on another iOS device, that is also associated with your Amazon account, you'll have a slightly different email address to be used for sending documents to that device, that you can also find out under the "Settings" screen. But probably, both the URL for the Amazon web pages to manage your account to add email addresses, and the personal email address that shows up under the Settings scree for your Kindle, will show the domain for your country. Also, since my account works only in the U.S., I can't check on the links and procedures for the Amazon web pages in other countries. However, doing a web search for documentation pages indicates you should just be able to substitute your Amazon store's web address as a prefix for the ones I used for the U.S. Amazon Store.
For example, I went to a "Manage Your Kindle" web page for the U.S. Amazon Store at: http://www.amazon.com/manageyourkindle A UK user would go to the corresponding web page at the UK Amazon Kindle Store, which would involve changing the "www.amazon.com" prefix in these addresses to "www.amazon.co.uk". So the link to a U.K. user's "Manage Your Kindle Page" would be: http://www.amazon.co.uk/manageyourkindle A Canadian user would have to substitute "www.amazon.ca" as a prefix and use: http://www.amzon.ca/manageyourkindle In other words, you use the URL of the Amazon Store for your country, which might be France, Germany, Italy, etc. and append a slash character followed by the words for "manage my kindle", typed as all lower case letters with no spaces between the words, and without the quote marks. I know that the URL links that I list above to access the "Manage Your Kindle" page in those other stores are valid -- but only from doing a web search. I can't actually test the actions for any store other than the U.S. Amazon Store, because I would need to have active Amazon accounts in all these other countries to get past the login screen. However, I can tell you how to navigate the U.S. web page on the "Manage Your Kindle" page after you log in. 1. Set your rotor to headings, and navigate to "Your Kindle Account". 2. Then navigate (e.g., flick right) to the link for "Personal Document Settings" and activate the link. (You can also use item chooser menu, or the links chooser menu to navigate directly to this link, which is what I would do in place of steps 1 and 2 on a Mac, or if using an paired keyboard.) 3. Navigate by headings to "Approved Personal Document E-mail List" 4. Navigate (e.g., flick right) past the list of current addresses to the "Add a new approved e-mail address" link and activate it (e.g., double tap, or VO-space). 5. In the dialog window you'll be prompted to enter an approved e-mail address. There's also a tip that you can add a partial address, such as @yourcompany.com (that's the AT character followed by a domain name for people reading these posts on the web site), to authorize multiple senders. (if you have a personal domain set up for your family, this could be a quick way to add them all at once, if you use that for email.) Navigate (e.g, flick right) to the place for entering addresses, which is announced as "multiline text field" on my iPad Mini, and double tap or VO-space. 6.Type in the email address you wish to add, and press return. (Note: I noticed that the button in the dialog box used to "enter" the address is only announced as "link image". I usually press the "Go" or "Return" key on my keyboard to submit my results, so I didn't notice this the first time I added an address. You can just navigate to "link image" and activate it (double tap or VO-space) to add your email address.) Your new email address should be added to the approved list, and you should be able to check this on the page. If you added someone else's email address to the approved email list, you will still have to tell them the personal email address that was assigned to your Kindle app on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. Remember that it will be different for each device. If you daughter emails a text document to you using the address for your iPad, and not for your iPhone, it will show up under the documents that have to be downloaded from the cloud, and will not appear directly in the docs that are on your device for your iPhone. Some countries don't support sending documents over a 3G connection (called Whispersync). If yours doesn't, then you don't have to worry about using 3G service to get your personal documents sent to your iOS devices, and being charged for this. For example, I think that Canada does not use the 3G service, but I'd have to check. If your country does support syncing and sending your personal documents sent by email over 3G, and this includes the U.S., then it seems that the only easy way to ensure that your personal document are only sent over wi-fi without charges, is to add "free" followed by a period separator to the beginning of the Amazon domain of the email address. You can probably find out if this applies to you by reading the Kindle help documentation pages for your country's store. Note that you don't need to change anything about the email address that shows up on your device under the Settings screen of the Kindle app. Treat that as information. You can create an entry in your Contacts associated with that address I found the description of when you might get charged for Whispersync 3G transfers to be fairly tortuous reading. The only sure ways to avoid being charged seem to be by setting an upper limit of $0.00 for the authorized per transfer charge on one of the Amazon pages for your account, or using the "free" variant if the email address for your device. Since I checked that sending attached documents to <your- address> AT free.amazon.com worked as well as <your-address> AT amazon.com (where <your-address> AT kindle.com is the email address assigned to your Kindle app and device shown in the Kindle App's "Settings" screen, this is what I am using. HTH. Cheers, Esther On May 10, 7:14 am, "Alan Paganelli" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]. 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