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Kindlebility: Sending articles to your Kindle, one click at a time

27 points by darkhelmetlive 16y ago

harisenbon 16y ago
Even better is the instapaper kindle integration. You can just go clickhappy on your pages, have them converted to mobi format, and sent to your kindle every day/week/month etc.
- heyitsnick 16y ago
  I do something similar with my Sony Reader; save to instapaper, instapaper to epub, epub to ereader. Obviously the book has to be hard-wired through USB for this to work, but then it also doesn't cost me anything. It runs the epub through calibre convert, because the sony reader has issues sometimes with the instapaper epub file - the conversion fixes it (something to do with chapters over a certain length). Through the evening, I instapaper save anything interesting to read, then just run this script each day before I leave the house. This is the particularly rare-groovy batch code if anyone's interested. @echo off echo. Echo Creating cookie... echo. curl -c cookies.txt -d "username=youremail&password=yourpass" http://www.instapaper.com/user/login http://www.instapaper.com/user/login > temp.txt echo. echo. echo Downloading epub... echo. curl -b cookies.txt -o C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaperbad.epub http://www.instapaper.com/epub http://www.instapaper.com/epub echo. echo. echo Converting epub... echo. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\ebook-convert.exe" C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaperbad.epub C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaper.epub echo. echo. echo Copying file to device... echo. copy /Y C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaper.epub F:\database\media\books rem Cleanup. technically we can keep cookies and re-use. del temp.txt del C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaperbad.epub del cookies.txt
aberkowitz 16y ago
Note: Amazon charges 15¢ per Megabyte of data to convert and send directly to your Kindle. If you instead input username@free.kindle.com, it sends it to your email so you can download it and put it on your Kindle.
- darkhelmetlive 16y ago
  I thought the free one would only download over wifi? Or does it do both? (I have a wifi only Kindle, so no clue).
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  - abhiyerra 16y ago
    Only over wifi.
  - xtho 16y ago
    The e-mail pops out on your desktop pc or whatever you use. You can then copy it to the kindle via usb or whatever you prefer.
  - dwwoelfel 16y ago
    There is a small fee if you download over 3G. You can prevent that by setting the charge limit on your "Manage my Kindle" page to $0. Wifi is always free. (source: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_left_sib?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200505520 http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_l...)
jrockway 16y ago
+1 for "you can check out the source here"!
gbrindisi 16y ago
I like and I'll try it out for sure (and thanks for the source code!) A genuine question: how does Amazon check the autenticity of received emails? I mean: what if I forge the email address you use to send articles?
- devicenull 16y ago
  You get a special 'secret' email for your kindle. You aren't supposed to share it with people, so it's relatively secure. You can also change it at any time if someone does manage to get it.
- dwwoelfel 16y ago
  You have to add an email address to a list of "trusted contacts" before Amazon will accept emails from it.
  - jrockway 16y ago
    You can also set a maximum cost-per-day. People can email you a document that would cost $329874 to convert, but $329874 is greater than what you've set, it will be rejected. I have never had a problem with Kindle spam.
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darkhelmetlive 16y ago
I'm an idiot and had a wrong email configured for sending. If you had problems with it not working, try again.

Even better is the instapaper kindle integration. You can just go clickhappy on your pages, have them converted to mobi format, and sent to your kindle every day/week/month etc.

heyitsnick 16y ago
I do something similar with my Sony Reader; save to instapaper, instapaper to epub, epub to ereader. Obviously the book has to be hard-wired through USB for this to work, but then it also doesn't cost me anything. It runs the epub through calibre convert, because the sony reader has issues sometimes with the instapaper epub file - the conversion fixes it (something to do with chapters over a certain length). Through the evening, I instapaper save anything interesting to read, then just run this script each day before I leave the house. This is the particularly rare-groovy batch code if anyone's interested. @echo off echo. Echo Creating cookie... echo. curl -c cookies.txt -d "username=youremail&password=yourpass" http://www.instapaper.com/user/login http://www.instapaper.com/user/login > temp.txt echo. echo. echo Downloading epub... echo. curl -b cookies.txt -o C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaperbad.epub http://www.instapaper.com/epub http://www.instapaper.com/epub echo. echo. echo Converting epub... echo. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\ebook-convert.exe" C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaperbad.epub C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaper.epub echo. echo. echo Copying file to device... echo. copy /Y C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaper.epub F:\database\media\books rem Cleanup. technically we can keep cookies and re-use. del temp.txt del C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaperbad.epub del cookies.txt

aberkowitz 16y ago

Note: Amazon charges 15¢ per Megabyte of data to convert and send directly to your Kindle. If you instead input username@free.kindle.com, it sends it to your email so you can download it and put it on your Kindle.

darkhelmetlive 16y ago
I thought the free one would only download over wifi? Or does it do both? (I have a wifi only Kindle, so no clue).
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- abhiyerra 16y ago
  Only over wifi.
- xtho 16y ago
  The e-mail pops out on your desktop pc or whatever you use. You can then copy it to the kindle via usb or whatever you prefer.
- dwwoelfel 16y ago
  There is a small fee if you download over 3G. You can prevent that by setting the charge limit on your "Manage my Kindle" page to $0. Wifi is always free. (source: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_left_sib?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200505520 http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_l...)

jrockway 16y ago

+1 for "you can check out the source here"!

gbrindisi 16y ago

I like and I'll try it out for sure (and thanks for the source code!) A genuine question: how does Amazon check the autenticity of received emails? I mean: what if I forge the email address you use to send articles?

devicenull 16y ago
You get a special 'secret' email for your kindle. You aren't supposed to share it with people, so it's relatively secure. You can also change it at any time if someone does manage to get it.
dwwoelfel 16y ago
You have to add an email address to a list of "trusted contacts" before Amazon will accept emails from it.
- jrockway 16y ago
  You can also set a maximum cost-per-day. People can email you a document that would cost $329874 to convert, but $329874 is greater than what you've set, it will be rejected. I have never had a problem with Kindle spam.

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darkhelmetlive 16y ago

I'm an idiot and had a wrong email configured for sending. If you had problems with it not working, try again.