Hi Esther.
I was able to get documents to finally sync to my Kindle account, bhut
the few I setn to be converted with "convert" as the subject heading
never came through. I think they somehow were lost in cyberspace. It
is just the word "convert" without quotes, correct?
Thank you for helping people on list with this, I love the Kindle app,
especially as a braille user.
Cheers,
Scott
On 5/14/13, Esther <mori...@mac.com> wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> My mailed documents took about 2 minutes to show up in the Kindle app,
> except for one that I tried to convert that was an invalid document
> type. In that case, when I checked my email, there was a notice that
> the conversion had failed.
>
> The documents show up in your "Docs" library, so they'll be displayed
> if the screen heading is "All Items" or "Docs" on your Kindle home
> page. You can switch libraries by double tapping the button for the
> library, which is the first item on your library screen -- at the top
> center of the screen, just below the time on the status menu bar. If
> you add documents, or if you decide to use the "Newsstand" to
> subscribe to magazines or journals, you'll probably find it more
> convenient to navigate to separate libraries on your device, instead
> of having everything mixed together. Either touch the button for your
> library in the heading area at the top center of the screen, or
> navigate there with a four finger tap in the top half of the screen,
> and then double tap. On the "Libraries" screen you can flick through
> the list ("All Items", "Books", "Newsstand", or "Docs") and double tap
> to select. You can also use the search option from this screen to
> find books or documents. When I tested sending documents for the first
> time, I switched my selected library to "Docs". The top of the "Docs"
> library screen also lists your personal Kindle email address
> associated with this device at the top of the screen. VoiceOver says
> "send documents to <user id> AT kindle.com". If you want to force the
> screen to refresh, you can do a double tap and hold on the email
> address and then, without lifting your finger from the screen, pull
> vertically down, and then release. You'll hear VoiceOver say "sync
> finished". However, I didn't need to force the sync in order to find
> the document I emailed.
>
> I didn't try any fancy browser or program add-ons when sending the
> trial documents. I just created an email with an attached document in
> the normal way (e.g., on a Mac you can either just do a Command-C to
> copy a file in Finder, and a Command-V to paste it into an email, or
> you can select one or multiple files, and then use a service menu
> option to create a "New email with selection. I just typed in the
> email address, especially since I wanted to make sure that both the
> regular email and the variant using "free.kindle.com" instead of
> "kindle.com" would work. I started with short files of the different
> listed valid file types, since I wanted to check how these worked
> before sending long files. This was how I found out that highlighting
> and notes don't work if you send a document file and don't use the
> "convert" option. You also won't be able to get table of contents
> navigation unless you send a file in mobi format. The Mac has lots of
> authoring tools for ePub, but you'd need to convert ebook format to
> use all the features with the Kindle app.
>
> HTH. Cheers,
>
> Esther
>
>
> On May 14, 5:46 am, Scott Davert <scottslistm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Teresa.
>> Yep, I have my email address listed as one of the approved addresses,
>> so I'm really not sure what the issue is. I tried installing the send
>> 2 Kindle program for windows, but when I right click it, it appears
>> that none of the elements are readable with jaws. Do you know if it
>> should take a long time to receive a book through your documents? I
>> converted a book from Bookshare yesterday and still do not see it. I
>> also have not received any email errors from Amazon, so I am not sure
>> what's going on. *shrugs*.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On 5/14/13, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi, Scott,
>>
>> > Did you use your Kindle address? usern...@kindle.com? Also, on the
>> > website,
>> > under Manage Your Kindle, make sure the address you're sending from is
>> > in
>> > the approved senders list.
>>
>> > Teresa
>> > On May 14, 2013, at 6:41 AM, Scott Davert <scottslistm...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >> Hmm. I emailed an attachment that was a mS-Word file yesterday, and it
>> >> still has not shown up in my "docs" library. I used the email address
>> >> I have on file with them, put convert in the subject line, and
>> >> attached the file. Is there an issue on Kindle's end, or am I missing
>> >> part of the process?
>>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >> Scott
>>
>> >> On 5/11/13, Alan Paganelli <alanandsuza...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >>> I found a nice little utility they have on the Kindle page for the US
>> >>> that
>> >>> once you install it, then in the context menu will be an item to send
>> >>> to
>> >>> Kindle. Very handy and thanks for your help!
>> >>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>> From: Esther
>> >>> To: VIPhone
>> >>> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 3:25 PM
>> >>> Subject: Re: Kindle Personal Document Services
>>
>> >>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> >>> I think the point of confusion may be that you don't use the Amazon
>> >>> Kindle App to make changes in your Kindle account settings. All of
>> >>> the actions for managing actions and adding other email addresses
>> >>> that
>> >>> you allow to send contents to your personal documents, managing your
>> >>> Kindle, and getting help, have to be taken at the Amazon web site.
>> >>> The
>> >>> email address listed under the Settings screen of your Kindle app is
>> >>> only used to tell you which unique email address has been assigned
>> >>> to
>> >>> your Kindle app for that device. I have no way of knowing what that
>> >>> would be for any other user. If you have the Kindle App installed
>> >>> on
>> >>> another iOS device, that is also associated with your Amazon
>> >>> account,
>> >>> you'll have a slightly different email address to be used for
>> >>> sending
>> >>> documents to that device, that you can also find out under the
>> >>> "Settings" screen. But probably, both the URL for the Amazon web
>> >>> pages to manage your account to add email addresses, and the
>> >>> personal
>> >>> email address that shows up under the Settings scree for your
>> >>> Kindle,
>> >>> will show the domain for your country. Also, since my account works
>> >>> only in the U.S., I can't check on the links and procedures for the
>> >>> Amazon web pages in other countries. However, doing a web search
>> >>> for
>> >>> documentation pages indicates you should just be able to substitute
>> >>> your Amazon store's web address as a prefix for the ones I used for
>> >>> the U.S. Amazon Store.
>>
>> >>> For example, I went to a "Manage Your Kindle" web page for the U.S.
>> >>> Amazon Store at:
>> >>> http://www.amazon.com/manageyourkindle
>> >>> A UK user would go to the corresponding web page at the UK Amazon
>> >>> Kindle Store, which would involve changing the "www.amazon.com"
>> >>> prefix
>> >>> in these addresses to "www.amazon.co.uk". So the link to a U.K.
>> >>> user's
>> >>> "Manage Your Kindle Page" would be:
>> >>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/manageyourkindle
>> >>> A Canadian user would have to substitute "www.amazon.ca" as a prefix
>> >>> and use:
>> >>> http://www.amzon.ca/manageyourkindle
>> >>> In other words, you use the URL of the Amazon Store for your
>> >>> country,
>> >>> which might be France, Germany, Italy, etc. and append a slash
>> >>> character followed by the words for "manage my kindle", typed as all
>> >>> lower case letters with no spaces between the words, and without the
>> >>> quote marks.
>>
>> >>> I know that the URL links that I list above to access the "Manage
>> >>> Your
>> >>> Kindle" page in those other stores are valid -- but only from doing
>> >>> a
>> >>> web search. I can't actually test the actions for any store other
>> >>> than
>> >>> the U.S. Amazon Store, because I would need to have active Amazon
>> >>> accounts in all these other countries to get past the login screen.
>> >>> However, I can tell you how to navigate the U.S. web page on the
>> >>> "Manage Your Kindle" page after you log in.
>> >>> 1. Set your rotor to headings, and navigate to "Your Kindle
>> >>> Account".
>> >>> 2. Then navigate (e.g., flick right) to the link for "Personal
>> >>> Document Settings" and activate the link. (You can also use item
>> >>> chooser menu, or the links chooser menu to navigate directly to this
>> >>> link, which is what I would do in place of steps 1 and 2 on a Mac,
>> >>> or
>> >>> if using an paired keyboard.)
>> >>> 3. Navigate by headings to "Approved Personal Document E-mail List"
>> >>> 4. Navigate (e.g., flick right) past the list of current addresses
>> >>> to
>> >>> the "Add a new approved e-mail address" link and activate it (e.g.,
>> >>> double tap, or VO-space).
>> >>> 5. In the dialog window you'll be prompted to enter an approved
>> >>> e-mail
>> >>> address. There's also a tip that you can add a partial address, such
>> >>> as @yourcompany.com (that's the AT character followed by a domain
>> >>> name
>> >>> for people reading these posts on the web site), to authorize
>> >>> multiple
>> >>> senders. (if you have a personal domain set up for your family, this
>> >>> could be a quick way to add them all at once, if you use that for
>> >>> email.) Navigate (e.g, flick right) to the place for entering
>> >>> addresses, which is announced as "multiline text field" on my iPad
>> >>> Mini, and double tap or VO-space.
>> >>> 6.Type in the email address you wish to add, and press return.
>> >>> (Note:
>> >>> I noticed that the button in the dialog box used to "enter" the
>> >>> address is only announced as "link image". I usually press the "Go"
>> >>> or
>> >>> "Return" key on my keyboard to submit my results, so I didn't notice
>> >>> this the first time I added an address. You can just navigate to
>> >>> "link image" and activate it (double tap or VO-space) to add your
>> >>> email address.)
>>
>> >>> Your new email address should be added to the approved list, and you
>> >>> should be able to check this on the page.
>>
>> >>> If you added someone else's email address to the approved email
>> >>> list,
>> >>> you will still have to tell them the personal email address that was
>> >>> assigned to your Kindle app on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.
>> >>> Remember that it will be different for each device. If you daughter
>> >>> emails a text document to you using the address for your iPad, and
>> >>> not
>> >>> for your iPhone, it will show up under the documents that have to be
>> >>> downloaded from the cloud, and will not appear directly in the docs
>> >>> that are on your device for your iPhone.
>>
>> >>> Some countries don't support sending documents over a 3G connection
>> >>> (called Whispersync). If yours doesn't, then you don't have to
>> >>> worry
>> >>> about using 3G service to get your personal documents sent to your
>> >>> iOS
>> >>> devices, and being charged for this. For example, I think that
>> >>> Canada
>> >>> does not use the 3G service, but I'd have to check. If your country
>> >>> does support syncing and sending your personal documents sent by
>> >>> email
>> >>> over 3G, and this includes the U.S., then it seems that the only
>> >>> easy
>> >>> way to ensure that your personal document are only sent over wi-fi
>> >>> without charges, is to add "free" followed by a period separator to
>> >>> the beginning of the Amazon domain of the email address. You can
>> >>> probably find out if this applies to you by reading the Kindle help
>> >>> documentation pages for your country's store. Note that you don't
>> >>> need
>> >>> to change anything about the email address that shows up on your
>> >>> device under the Settings screen of the Kindle app. Treat that as
>> >>> information. You can create an entry in your Contacts associated
>> >>> with
>> >>> that address
>>
>> >>> I found the description of when you might get charged for
>> >>> Whispersync
>> >>> 3G transfers to be fairly tortuous reading. The only sure ways to
>> >>> avoid being charged seem to be by setting an upper limit of $0.00
>> >>> for
>> >>> the authorized per transfer charge on one of the Amazon pages for
>> >>> your
>> >>> account, or using the "free" variant if the email address for your
>> >>> device. Since I checked that sending attached documents to <your-
>> >>> address> AT free.amazon.com worked as well as <your-address> AT
>> >>> amazon.com (where <your-address> AT kindle.com is the email address
>> >>> assigned to your Kindle app and device shown in the Kindle App's
>> >>> "Settings" screen, this is what I am using.
>>
>> >>> HTH. Cheers,
>>
>> >>> Esther
>>
>> >>> On May 10, 7:14 am, "Alan Paganelli" <alanandsuza...@earthlink.net>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>> I spent several hours trying to get that set up using the Kindle for
>> >>> iPhone app. Every time I clicked on the link I'd wind up going around
>> >>> and
>> >>> around and finally just gave up. Hopefully, Amazon will get it fixed.
>> >>> I
>> >>> was
>> >>> trying to add my daughter's Kindle email address to the approved
>> >>> senders
>> >>> list and never got it to work so if anybody manages to do it, I'd
>> >>> appreciate
>> >>> it if you would share how you managed it.
>>
>> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>>> From: Esther
>> >>>> To: VIPhone
>> >>>> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 8:04 PM
>> >>>> Subject: Kindle Personal Document Services
>>
>> >>>> Hello,
>>
>> >>>> Another feature of the Kindle app that I haven't seen discussed here
>> >>>> is the Kindle Personal Document Services. You get up to 5GB of free
>> >>>> personal document storage space
>>
>> ...
>>
>> read more »
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google
> Group.
> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit
> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/.
> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com.
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit this group at
> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
> ---
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "VIPhone" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
>
>
>
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google
Group.
To search the VIPhone public archive, visit
http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/.
To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
