Send it to [your (note the 'free' part in the link) which will let you download the converted doc file or book using a WiFi wireless network at home, office, or a place like McDonald's or Starbucks instead of using 3G wireless OR.

The TWO ways you can get the file to your Kindle without using 3G are: The Kindle 3 (UK: K3) ( 'Kindle Keyboard') uses both 3G and WiFi. The Kindle 1, Kindle 2, and larger DX models use ONLY 3G wireless access for downloading books or for going to the web. When would you find yourself using 3G instead of WiFi? The new Basic Kindle with No Keyboard and No TouchScreen is WiFi only, so there's no way to incur a fee with that. Sending files via WiFi networks doesn't incur a fee, as WiFi is local to us, in our home, or at work, or at a cafe or other public place that allows access to one, and Amazon doesn't have to pay for that. (See ' What are '3G' and 'WiFi?'.)Īmazon pays for 3G cell-phone type data-access and they charge back 15c per megabyte of a file for that reason. Why? - because there is a 15c per megabyte fee to use 3G for sending personal docs to your Kindle. Once you've made that special nickname-email address for your Kindle, you can specify that you want to send a personal file to your Kindle email address WITHOUT using the '3G' cellphone network feature. Approval for others to send docs to your Kindle can be registered by you at your /manageyourkindle page.Īny file that we send to our Kindle by email goes to the Amazon servers where it is converted to Amazon format before Amazon gets it ready for download to the Kindle. įor example: My Kindle 3 address is - and no one can use it to send documents to my Kindle unless I approve that person's email address for doing that.

Personal docs are, generally, any file that is not a Kindle book and they're usually files we've personally put on our Kindle - either by transferring them from computer to the Kindle, via the USB cable that comes with our Kindle's power cord or by using our email to send the file to our Kindle (which is given a ' Kindle email address' for that purpose, in the form [your.

(You can also disable the archiving & sync'g features.) Those first-class features include sync'g your reading between devices, having them archived at the Amazon servers, and showing their titles in your Kindle's Archived Items folder when the personal document is no longer on the Kindle, for future re-downloading to any of your Kindles as needed. 13, Amazon has made notable, long-requested improvements to the Personal Documents feature, upgrading personal documents that you send to your Kindle, from 2nd-class status to having the regular features that Kindle books have. 30 and with the Kindle Keyboard software update to v3.3 on Oct. AMAZON'S EMAIL TO 'PAST USERS' OF THE PERSONAL DOCUMENTS FEATUREĪs many now know, since Sept.

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