The Convenience of Kindle

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If you're a reader and you own a kindle, there's so many additional options with how to use and read on your kindle that make it very convenient. One of those things is receiving books from indie authors and reading them just like you bought them on the kindle store!

If you have an agreement with an indie author and would like them to email you their EPUB file to your Kindle, like a sample of sorts, this is how you do it.

Step 1: Find Your Kindle Email Address

Every Kindle device that you have is automatically assigned an email. So before you can send an EPUB to that email address, you need to find it and authorize your main email address (the one you use for day-to-day interactions) to send it books. The ‘Send to Kindle' service makes it convenient to transfer files and ebooks from various sources to your Kindle device.

To do this, follow these steps:

1. Log into your Amazon account, go under Account & Lists and select Content & Devices

2. Select the Devices tab

   

3. Find your device in the list of devices and click on it

4. Once you have found your device, it should have the Kindle email listed (one that ends in “@kindle.com”). You can now copy that email and save it for later.

Next, we need to make sure the authors email, the one they will send the epub from, is authorized to send emails to this @kindle.com address. To do this, follow these steps:

1. In the Content & Devices area, go to the Preferences tab

2. Find the section that says Personal Document Settings

3. Find the link that says “Add a new e-mail address” under the Approved Personal Document E-mail List section

4. Enter the authors email here (if receiving an epub from me, add cs@pasclo.com here)

Once you have that all squared away, it’s time for the author to send the EPUB file to your Kindle…

Step 2: Email Your EPUB File

Once you have found your Kindle address, and authorized your main email to send it books, the rest is relatively easy. Simply follow these steps:

1. Create a new email in whatever email service you use (gmail, hotmail, etc.)

2. Attach your EPUB file to the email

3. Send it to your @kindle.com email that you collected earlier

4. Once you send the email, you will get a verification email from Amazon. Simply open up that email and hit the verify button.

That's it! No need for a subject line or content in the body of your email. All you need is the EPUB file, and the @kindle.com address to send it to.

Additional Notes on Sending Ebooks to Kindle Via Email

• You can send up to 25 attachments in one email

• You can have up to 15 email addresses approved to send emails to your Kindle

• To save space you can compress your EPUBs into a ZIP file. Amazon is smart enough to unzip those files before transferring them to your Kindle

• Amazon also allows the following file types to be emailed to your Kindle:

  • .DOC, .DOCX

  • .HTML, .HTM

  • .RTF

  • .TXT

  • .JPEG, .JPG

  • .GIF

  • .PNG

  • .BMP

  • .PDF

• Your device must be connected to the Internet when you send the email

Note: For email, your file size must be 50 MB or less. If you're dealing with larger EPUBs, use the Send to Kindle web uploader instead.