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With reference to sending documents to the Kindle I've also been using Send to Kindle but yesterday I read about and installed a new option called KindleBox which uses Dropbox to send documents to the Kindle. I've only used it once to test it so far and it seems to work smoothly but I don't know it's in's and outs well enough to really know if it'll be useful in the long term.
Anyway you create an account on their website to set it up. In the process of creating the account you give it your Dropbox information and you click a link and it creates a new folder under Apps in your Dropbox folder. Of course this assumes you have a Dropbox account, which I do.
That all took about 3 minutes plus a lot of reading of their FAQ and other information to make sure I knew what I was getting into before I gave them my info. Once done all I have to do to send a document to my Kindle is to drop it into that new folder in my Dropbox folder. It then uses Send to Kindle for me and it appears on my Kindle when I sync.
The one document I tried it with worked just fine. I have a lot of plain text short stories I've collected over the years and I"m always sending one or another of them to my Kindle and this will make that a lot simpler. I can just drag it into a folder and wait till it appears on the Kindle.
I have no idea what limits or problems, if any, this thing might have but so far it's looking pretty nice.
Barry
Anyway you create an account on their website to set it up. In the process of creating the account you give it your Dropbox information and you click a link and it creates a new folder under Apps in your Dropbox folder. Of course this assumes you have a Dropbox account, which I do.
That all took about 3 minutes plus a lot of reading of their FAQ and other information to make sure I knew what I was getting into before I gave them my info. Once done all I have to do to send a document to my Kindle is to drop it into that new folder in my Dropbox folder. It then uses Send to Kindle for me and it appears on my Kindle when I sync.
The one document I tried it with worked just fine. I have a lot of plain text short stories I've collected over the years and I"m always sending one or another of them to my Kindle and this will make that a lot simpler. I can just drag it into a folder and wait till it appears on the Kindle.
I have no idea what limits or problems, if any, this thing might have but so far it's looking pretty nice.
Barry