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[robertiam4]

A couple months ago I asked Amazon's Customer Service if the Send to Kindle app could be used to send a file to a Kindle app. (I use only Kindle apps, no Kindle devices.)

They told me it could *not* be used to send a file to a Kindle app.

Were you able to successfully do it?

BTW, I went to the Project Gutenberg site to check it out, and found a review by its Webmaster of the Kindle Fire. It said that "there is no way to download free books from the web and have the Kindle Fire store them permanently or in the same places where your books from Amazon are kept."

[kenborgh]

Can you leave the specific link to get the "Send to Kindle" I did plenty of searches in many different ways and could never get to the web page you displayed in your video. All that was available was for Android.

Thanks in advance.

[bartszyszka]

Did this article need to be a video? The video spends a significant amount of time in the beginning showing nothing but your computer desktop, then you proceed to demonstrate an app that's pretty straight forward to use. It would have been more helpful if the article text just said there's an Amazon app for sending to multiple devices, with a link to the download page so I do t have to manually copy it down from a video...

[theshepherd]

Where's the video on syncing books to devices? It doesn't show up on my screen(s).

[wwelsh39]

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Can you leave the specific link to get the "Send to Kindle" I did plenty of searches in many different ways and could never get to the web page you displayed in your video. All that was available was for Android. Thanks in advance.

http://www.amazon.co...endtokindle/mac

Just used this url to get to the above link which does have the "Send to Kindle" app for Mac on it.

[Chris Breen]

robertiam4, on 31 December 2012 - 04:22 PM, said:

A couple months ago I asked Amazon's Customer Service if the Send to Kindle app could be used to send a file to a Kindle app. (I use only Kindle apps, no Kindle devices.)

They told me it could *not* be used to send a file to a Kindle app.

Were you able to successfully do it?

BTW, I went to the Project Gutenberg site to check it out, and found a review by its Webmaster of the Kindle Fire. It said that "there is no way to download free books from the web and have the Kindle Fire store them permanently or in the same places where your books from Amazon are kept."

You were misinformed. I've done this many times with a variety of iOS devices.

[BentBombs]

@Robertiam4: If you contacted them long enough ago it was true at one point that app-only users didn't receive a send-to-kindle address as they now do. Also, the info they gave you is partially still correct. Any third-party books you upload are stored as documents, not books. So, while we can take advantage of the syncing we still cannot take advantage of real page numbers or our highlights syncing to kindle.amazon.com. Both big deals for me.

Thanks for the video!

[razorpit]

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Did this article need to be a video? The video spends a significant amount of time in the beginning showing nothing but your computer desktop, then you proceed to demonstrate an app that's pretty straight forward to use. It would have been more helpful if the article text just said there's an Amazon app for sending to multiple devices, with a link to the download page so I do t have to manually copy it down from a video...

Some things are best explained with video. Did it have to be this way? No, I'm sure Chris could have explained it with several pictures, and I'm sure he would have spent four times the amount of time he did answering questions from people who are not as computer savvy as you are.

For three minutes of my time it took to watch I found it extremely valuable, and didn't realize there was a way of doing this. Thanks Chris for putting this together...

[DMBDenver]

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Can you leave the specific link to get the "Send to Kindle" I did plenty of searches in many different ways and could never get to the web page you displayed in your video. All that was available was for Android. Thanks in advance.

You find it here: http://www.amazon.co...endtokindle/mac

[Chris Breen]

bartszyszka, on 31 December 2012 - 10:50 PM, said:

Did this article need to be a video? The video spends a significant amount of time in the beginning showing nothing but your computer desktop, then you proceed to demonstrate an app that's pretty straight forward to use. It would have been more helpful if the article text just said there's an Amazon app for sending to multiple devices, with a link to the download page so I do t have to manually copy it down from a video...

You could have read the original printed version from a couple of months ago, but apparently it didn't catch your eye. So in your case, yes, I think so.

Also, the video should have headed off any "this doesn't work because X" comments because I could show it working on my iPads (though that didn't seem to stop at least one of these comments).

[robertiam4]

I realize now (having just looked at Amazon's "Using Send to Kindle for Mac" page) that when I wrote that the other day my recollection about what I said they told me was incorrect.

What they actually told me was that Send to Kindle cannot be used to send a file to the Kindle for Mac or Kindle for PC apps (which are the only apps I use); sending to IOS apps are supported.

So you are indeed correct.

[chairgiant]

Very cool. I wonder if there is any similar solution for ePub-formatted books for syncing in iBooks (my preferred reading app of the moment)?