{"id":3317,"date":"2014-08-06T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2020-07-06T11:03:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T16:03:48","slug":"accessing-personal-files-from-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/2014\/08\/06\/accessing-personal-files-from-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessing Personal Files from Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you enjoy reading books using the Kindle device or the Kindle app on mobile devices, you will be happy to learn that you can convert any PDF or even Word file on your computer directly into a Kindle file using nothing but the good old email, so that you can read, highlight, annotate, as you could with a regular Kindle book.<\/p>\n

You will need to authorize an email to send from and find the email to send to. \u00a0\u00a0This can be done in the control panel of your Amazon account. \u00a0Sign in to your Amazon account, \u00a0navigate to \u201cdigital content\u201d and click on \u201csettings\u201d, choose \u201cmanage your content and devices\u201d under \u201cdigital management\u201d, and then select \u201csettings\u201d again.<\/p>\n

On this page, find your Kindle email. \u00a0You will notice that each device has its own unique Kindle email that has been automatically assigned. \u00a0You can edit this email to something you can remember. \u00a0For instance, I changed mine to berlinfangipadmini@kindle.com. \u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

The next thing you will need to do is to \u201cauthorize\u201d an email from which to send your files. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You can authorize a number of emails if there is a need to:<\/p>\n

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After this, you can simply email your PDF files from your authorized email (in my case bxf13b@acu.edu<\/a>) to your Kindle email (in my case berlinfangipadmini@kindle.com<\/a>) . \u00a0Make sure you use the word \u201cconvert\u201d as your subject.<\/p>\n

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After this email is sent, wait a few minutes and then check your Kindle app to find the document in your Kindle booklist. \u00a0\u00a0If it is not showing up, consider syncing your Kindle.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the format may not look very neat, depending on how you format your document originally. \u00a0In most cases, however, I find it working well for personal reading. \u00a0For more professional-looking eBooks, consider other applications such as iBook Author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you enjoy reading books using the Kindle device or the Kindle app on mobile devices, you will be happy to learn that you can convert any PDF or even Word file on your computer directly into a Kindle file using nothing but the good old email, so that you can read, highlight, annotate, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42246,467],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instructional-design","category-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5013,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}