Built-in lighting: Most e-readers provide their own light for reading in dark environments.

The converted PDF will appear in your Kindle e-reader, with all of the same caveats that come with sending the document via email, sans the drudgery of typing out and sending a message. Once installed, simply sign into the app using your Amazon credentials and right-click on the PDF you want to send to your Kindle. Available for Mac OS and Windows PCs, the Send to Kindle app is free to download and easy to use.

Amazon’s Send to Kindle app is the better option at that point. If you read a lot of PDFs on a regular basis, you’ll likely not want to send an email every time you want to convert one. Sending a PDF to your Kindle is just a right-click away. Send a PDF with the Send to Kindle App Seamus Bellamy/IDG Third, if your PDF contains images or charts, the conversion process may orient them the wrong way in the document or split them across several pages. Second, if you’re using your Kindle out of the country where it was originally registered, using Whispersync to load the file on your e-reader could end up costing you a few bucks. First, it can take anywhere from 10 minutes to a few hours for the PDF to show up in your Kindle’s library. Using this method to convert PDFs has its drawbacks. Once converted, the PDF will be sent to your Kindle using Amazon’s Whispersync technology. Amazon will automatically convert the contents of the PDF to a size that your e-reader can more readily handle. Send an email to this address, typing Convert for the subject line and attaching the PDF you’d like to read. You can find the address of your Kindle under Settings > My Account > Send to Kindle Email.

Send a PDF to your Kindle via email Seamus Bellamy/IDGįun fact: every Kindle comes with its own email address, so you can send PDFs to your Kindle.Įvery Amazon Kindle comes with its own email address.

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