Hi Scott,
My mailed documents took about 2 minutes to show up in the Kindle app,
except for one that I tried to convert that was an invalid document
type. In that case, when I checked my email, there was a notice that
the conversion had failed.
The documents show up in your "Docs" library, so they'll be displayed
if the screen heading is "All Items" or "Docs" on your Kindle home
page. You can switch libraries by double tapping the button for the
library, which is the first item on your library screen -- at the top
center of the screen, just below the time on the status menu bar. If
you add documents, or if you decide to use the "Newsstand" to
subscribe to magazines or journals, you'll probably find it more
convenient to navigate to separate libraries on your device, instead
of having everything mixed together. Either touch the button for your
library in the heading area at the top center of the screen, or
navigate there with a four finger tap in the top half of the screen,
and then double tap. On the "Libraries" screen you can flick through
the list ("All Items", "Books", "Newsstand", or "Docs") and double tap
to select. You can also use the search option from this screen to
find books or documents. When I tested sending documents for the first
time, I switched my selected library to "Docs". The top of the "Docs"
library screen also lists your personal Kindle email address
associated with this device at the top of the screen. VoiceOver says
"send documents to <user id> AT kindle.com". If you want to force the
screen to refresh, you can do a double tap and hold on the email
address and then, without lifting your finger from the screen, pull
vertically down, and then release. You'll hear VoiceOver say "sync
finished". However, I didn't need to force the sync in order to find
the document I emailed.
I didn't try any fancy browser or program add-ons when sending the
trial documents. I just created an email with an attached document in
the normal way (e.g., on a Mac you can either just do a Command-C to
copy a file in Finder, and a Command-V to paste it into an email, or
you can select one or multiple files, and then use a service menu
option to create a "New email with selection. I just typed in the
email address, especially since I wanted to make sure that both the
regular email and the variant using "free.kindle.com" instead of
"kindle.com" would work. I started with short files of the different
listed valid file types, since I wanted to check how these worked
before sending long files. This was how I found out that highlighting
and notes don't work if you send a document file and don't use the
"convert" option. You also won't be able to get table of contents
navigation unless you send a file in mobi format. The Mac has lots of
authoring tools for ePub, but you'd need to convert ebook format to
use all the features with the Kindle app.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On May 14, 5:46 am, Scott Davert <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Teresa.
Yep, I have my email address listed as one of the approved addresses,
so I'm really not sure what the issue is. I tried installing the send
2 Kindle program for windows, but when I right click it, it appears
that none of the elements are readable with jaws. Do you know if it
should take a long time to receive a book through your documents? I
converted a book from Bookshare yesterday and still do not see it. I
also have not received any email errors from Amazon, so I am not sure
what's going on. *shrugs*.
Scott
On 5/14/13, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, Scott,
Did you use your Kindle address? [email protected]? Also, on the
website,
under Manage Your Kindle, make sure the address you're sending from is
in
the approved senders list.
Teresa
On May 14, 2013, at 6:41 AM, Scott Davert <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hmm. I emailed an attachment that was a mS-Word file yesterday, and it
still has not shown up in my "docs" library. I used the email address
I have on file with them, put convert in the subject line, and
attached the file. Is there an issue on Kindle's end, or am I missing
part of the process?
Thanks!
Scott
On 5/11/13, Alan Paganelli <[email protected]> wrote:
I found a nice little utility they have on the Kindle page for the US
that
once you install it, then in the context menu will be an item to send
to
Kindle. Very handy and thanks for your help!
----- Original Message -----
From: Esther
To: VIPhone
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: Kindle Personal Document Services
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
...
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