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Send to kindle chrome6/2/2023 The key is to allow your Kindle to receive email from the unique Instapaper email address. ![]() You can find out your Kindle's Email Address here under Personal Document Settings. Did you know every Kindle has one? It's either for free WiFi delivery or just for 3G delivery with a small fee. Just visit once you've got an Instapaper account and put in your Kindle's email address. If books show up on my Kindle I'll read them. I use my Kindle all the time so I appreciate a "no clicks required" workflow. This is a common complaint and why I like document delivery to the Kindle. Perhaps you've tried this before but then never visited the Instapaper App or Website. So you're building a queue of links that is sent to Instapaper. ![]() You can get more details on that in my blog post Two Must-Have Tools for a More Readable Web. I even made a flowchart a few years back. I don't stress, I click Read Later and the document is shipped off to Instapaper. What this means it is that Instapaper is ready and waiting for me in every location where an interesting piece of long-form reading could present itself. You'd be surprised how many apps support Instapaper once you start looking for this. I've also logged into Instapaper from all my social apps so that I can Read Later from my iPhone Twitter Client for example. I've put it in every browser I use, even Mobile Safari. I have a bookmarklet from Instapaper that says "Read Later" on my browser toolbar. I am naturally and organically creating a personalized book for weekend reading. The stress and urgency (and open tabs) are gone. Think about how amazing that is and how it can change your relationship with content on the web. I have these websites, papers and interesting links rolled up and delivered automatically to my Kindle every week. Some folks make bookmarks, have folders called "Links" on their desktops, or email themselves links. These are often in the form of what I call "long-form re ading." Hackernews links, NYTimes studys, academic papers, etc. You get a bunch of links that flow through your life all week long. So if Open In New Tab doesn't mean Read Later, what does? Why, READ LATER does! This gets even better when you combine a Read Later tool like Instapaper with an Amazon Kindle like my new Kindle Paperwhite (I reviewed the Paperwhite last week.) Inserting a Kindle into your Life's Workflow Remember that "open in new tab" rarely means "read it later." It usually means "use up memory and let this page run in the background until eventually declare tab-bankruptcy and close them all." Just make sure Wi-Fi or your Whispernet connection is activated on your device so it has no trouble getting there.I've talked about Instapaper before when I tease folks of having 42 tabs open. Once you’re done, clicking the extension’s icon will give you a live preview of how the article will appear on your Kindle and provide you with a “Send” button that will send it to your Kindle. To get it to work, Kindle users first need to enter their Kindle’s registered email into the extension, then add as an approved sender under Amazon’s Kindle management page and add your Kindle’s email address to the extension settings. Instead of relying on Instapaper as the middle-man to sync articles, Send to Kindle syncs the article of your choice immediately. Think of it like Chrome to Phone (or Chrome to iPhone) for your Kindle, minimising what used to be a multi-step task into a single click. Chrome: If you prefer spending more time reading on your Kindle than in your browser, you can quickly push content from your browser to your Kindle with Chrome extension Send to Kindle.
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