Send Your Documents to My Kindle

I'm so glad for this feature too, it's a real nice amendment. I like being able to read friend's manuscripts on the go like that.

Interesting...

I wonder if this works with Kindle for the PC...

Need to send my ms to editor's Kindle

I have Kindle for PC. I've converted my ms to Kindle using an online converter and the converted ms is sitting in my Kindle. The editor wants it sent in a ".mobi file" to his Kindle.

How do I send it to the editor's Kindle? I've read the thread, but still can't figure out how to do this. Can anyone provide some "Kindle for Dummies" type guidance on how to make this happen?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Zeddo

As I understand the process: Every Kindle account has an associated email address. To send something directly to a Kindle, you need to know the recipient's Kindle email address and be on their approved email-sender list. The best way to accomplish this is to communicate directly with them to exchange emails. Once you have that done, just email your file to their Kindle address.

If emailing a file to someone else's Kindle works like emailing it to your own, there's a step at the Amazon side that converts incoming compatible files into the Kindle format. Check on the Amazon site to verify that the format you're sending in is on their convertible list.

Thank you benbenberi. I've looked around the Amazon site, but all I can find is information about how to send personal documents to your own Kindle--they don't seem to envision anyone sending a file to someone else's Kindle.

Also, although they mention .mobi files as something you can send, I don't see anything about Amazon being able to convert Word documents to .mobi files. I've found an online converter that does the conversion for free, but I'm uneasy about providing my ms to an unknown entity, even though they say you can delete the file after conversion.

Another problem is that although Amazon says you can find your own Kindle address by going to settings, I've done that and I can't find mine. Would the Kindle address be the same as my regular email address, do you think? They do have an " Add a new approved e-mail address" option and perhaps I could add the editor's address there?

Because the editor hasn't provided me with anything except his regular email address, I'm thinking that somehow I'm supposed to attach the converted .mobi file to a regular email.

Zeddo

I send my WIP to my Kindle/phone as a Word document - no converting. I like having my latest update available to review as I progress through my MS.

Zeddo said:

Thank you benbenberi. I've looked around the Amazon site, but all I can find is information about how to send personal documents to your own Kindle--they don't seem to envision anyone sending a file to someone else's Kindle.

Also, although they mention .mobi files as something you can send, I don't see anything about Amazon being able to convert Word documents to .mobi files. I've found an online converter that does the conversion for free, but I'm uneasy about providing my ms to an unknown entity, even though they say you can delete the file after conversion.

Another problem is that although Amazon says you can find your own Kindle address by going to settings, I've done that and I can't find mine. Would the Kindle address be the same as my regular email address, do you think? They do have an " Add a new approved e-mail address" option and perhaps I could add the editor's address there?

Because the editor hasn't provided me with anything except his regular email address, I'm thinking that somehow I'm supposed to attach the converted .mobi file to a regular email.

Zeddo

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If your editor is looking at the file on an iPad, say - in the Kindle app - she can open it straight from her Mail app. On a Kindle hardware reader, you'd need to go via personal documents, and that address isn't the same as their regular email account.

To allow you to send documents to that address, the editor needs to add your address as an Approved one. This prevents people from just spamming someone else's Kindle!

So you need to

a) find out the editor's Kindle address
b) tell the editor the email address you're sending from and get them to add it in approved email addresses.

If you want to convert your own files into Kindle format (.mobi is the generic version, .azw is an Amazon-specific flavor), the easiest way to do that is to download the free application Calibre and use that do handle the conversion.

This is probably an unnecessary step for you, though. When you email a doc to a Kindle, unless you're starting out from some oddball format Amazon makes sure it will arrive in Kindle-compatible form.

So, I have a Word 97-2003 document (that's what the publisher insists I use--I originally had the ms in DOCX (Word 2007). I see Calibre converts from DOCX, but they don't mention Word 97-2003. (I suppose I could convert the file back to DOCX, but every time I change formats I have to do a lot of format fixing.

So far, using the free program I mentioned earlier, I've managed to convert the Word97-2003 document into a .mobi file. Then to test it, I tried sending to my niece's Kindle by just attaching the file to her regular email address. She could read it on her IPAD and on her tablet. She said she'd put my email address into her Kindle as an approved address and gave me the address to her Kindle device. When I tried sending it to that address, I kept getting "message cannot be sent. An error has occurred." (which is not a real helpful error message

Any thoughts on what the problem might be? Benbenberi, re "Amazon makes sure it will arrive in a kindle-compatible form"--does this mean I can send the Word 97-2003 file directly to the kindle address?

Thanks to all for your help so far.

Zeddo

Zeddo said:

So, I have a Word 97-2003 document (that's what the publisher insists I use--I originally had the ms in DOCX (Word 2007). I see Calibre converts from DOCX, but they don't mention Word 97-2003. (I suppose I could convert the file back to DOCX, but every time I change formats I have to do a lot of format fixing.

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I believe that Calibre can handle .doc as well as .docx

Zeddo said:

So far, using the free program I mentioned earlier, I've managed to convert the Word97-2003 document into a .mobi file. Then to test it, I tried sending to my niece's Kindle by just attaching the file to her regular email address. She could read it on her IPAD and on her tablet. She said she'd put my email address into her Kindle as an approved address and gave me the address to her Kindle device. When I tried sending it to that address, I kept getting "message cannot be sent. An error has occurred." (which is not a real helpful error message

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I'm afraid I'm not much more helpful in this case - I've never tried to do what you're trying to do, so I have no experience to fall back on. Sorry.

Zeddo said:

Any thoughts on what the problem might be? Benbenberi, re "Amazon makes sure it will arrive in a kindle-compatible form"--does this mean I can send the Word 97-2003 file directly to the kindle address?

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Yes. (Unless Amazon has radically changed things in the last couple of years, which is possible, but not probable.)

benbenberi said:

I believe that Calibre can handle .doc as well as .docx

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Great, that would really help.

benbenberi said:

"Amazon makes sure it will arrive in a kindle-compatible form"

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Originally Posted by Zeddo Does this mean I can send the Word 97-2003 file directly to the kindle address?

benbenberi said:

Yes. (Unless Amazon has radically changed things in the last couple of years, which is possible, but not probable.)

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Even better. Thank you

Zeddo