In addition to transferring ebooks and documents to kindle via usb cable, or syncing your purchased books to kindle directly over wi-fi or 3g, amazon also offers a free tool called kindle personal documents service that allows you to send e-books and personal documents to kindle by email. The service is compatible with Kindle EReader (such as Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Voyage), Kindle Fire, and even the Kindle Reading app.
but how to email books and documents to kindle? You may think it’s pretty easy, but before you use it, you need to find your shipping email address to kindle and add it to your approved email list. If you are not familiar with it, please follow this post, I will show you how to do it and also share some useful tips. tricks when emailing files to kindle, for example how to email epub books to kindle and how to convert pdf to kindle format when emailing.
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supported file types when emailing to kindle
Note that the file size must be less than 50mb. and amazon also limit the amount of documents you send or store, but they don’t say the exact amount, I think it’s enough for personal use.
find your personal kindle email address
When I surf the internet, I found that there are many people who don’t know their kindle email address, in fact, you can find your personal kindle email address on kindle ereader or amazon website.
find kindle personal email address in ereader
press “settings” -> “device options” -> “customize your kindle” -> “email to send to kindle”
find kindle personal email address on amazon website
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go to the amazon website, search for “manage your content and devices”. click “your devices” and you will see all your kindle devices including your kindle reading app, like kindle for android, kindle for ios.
click on the device or app you want and you will see your kindle personal email address. typically ends with @kindle.com.
add your email to the list of approved “send to kindle” emails.
To prevent spam, Kindle’s Personal Documents service only accepts self-approved emails, so please add your personal email address.
go to amazon manage your content and devices. From the Settings column, scroll down to Personal Document Settings. Your kindle submission email address will appear in your kindle submission email settings. click “add a new approved email address”, enter a new email address, and then click save to save your changes.
compose an email and attach your books or documents
1. log in to your approved email account, compose a new email.
2. The recipient is “xxx@kindle.com”, which can be found on the kindle ereader and on the amazon website.
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3. leave the subject and content blank or write whatever you want.
4. upload your books and personal documents and then click “submit”.
email books and documents to kindle from caliber
If you use caliber to manage your books, you can also email your books and documents from caliber. go to preferences >> share books by email to set the email address.
Next time when you want to email a book or document to kindle directly from caliber, just right-click the title and search for connect/share >> email to xxx@kindle.com. then the title will be sent to your kindle device or app.
send epub books to kindle via email
As we know, kindle doesn’t support epub format, so if we want to send epub books to kindle, the best way is to convert epub format to kindle first. but if you send epub books to kindle via email, you don’t need to do this. There are two methods to send epub books to kindle directly by email.
method 1: if you email books and documents to kindle from caliber, caliber will automatically convert them to kindle format, very convenient.
Method 2: Change the epub book suffix from .epub to .png and send the png file to kindle via email; the kindle personal documents service will convert the zip file to azw3 format automatically.
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