PSA: You Can Email Books and Documents to Your Kindle

Have a book from outside the Amazon ecosystem and want to read it on your Kindle?

Forget sideloading with an app or tethering with a USB cable.

it’s possible for you to just email it right to your Kindle.

Why Do I Want to Email Files to My Kindle?

Thankfully there’s a really simple method that requires no installation of anything and works from practically anywhere.

Emailing a book or document to your Kindle is one of many reallyhandy but underused Amazon Kindle features.

So for those times you’re away from your favorite app, you could just fire off an email.

Once you set things up, you’ll be set and won’t have to fuss with it again.

Every registered Kindle has a special @kindle.com email address.

Just log into your Amazon account and navigatewww.amazon.com/myk.

Select your Kindle there to get additional information about it, including the unique email address.

Email is, unfortunately, nearly synonymous with spam.

Getting spam content automatically delivered to your Kindle would be infuriating, to say the least.

Thankfully, there is a mechanism in place to prevent it.

Your Kindle email address will only accept emailed files from your manually authorized email addresses.

There, you oughta add the email address you will be using to send the documents to your Kindle.

For most people, this will be their primary personal address.

First, you need a supported file bang out.

The total size of the email attachments, regardless of the number of attachments, cannot exceed 50MB.

And that’s it!

Same thing if you’re on your PC.

Downloadedfree ebooks from Project Gutenburgor bought someDRM-free books from Humble Bundle?

Same thing, just toss them in an email and send away.