How to Wirelessly Transfer a Document to an Amazon Kindle Device

Locate your customized Send-to-Kindle email address from your settings in Amazon's page-settings.If you find that you don't have one yet, Create Your Send-to-Kindle email address., Open a new email message on your PC or Macintosh computer. , Enter...

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Step-by-Step Guide

  1. Step 1: Locate your customized Send-to-Kindle email address from your settings in Amazon's page-settings.If you find that you don't have one yet

    If you've already created one but forgot what it was and you have your device handy, this information can be found on any Kindle on the second page of your Kindle's settings.
  2. Step 2: Create Your Send-to-Kindle email address.

    ,,,,, If this place is your house, go to a place in your house that Wi-Fi has the best reception, along with a time when the Wi-Fi network has the highest bandwidth time by other users.

    If not, your library may have a Wi-Fi network, but check with your library before spontaneously going there, to see if they do or not. ,, Even if your device has 3G capabilities, Amazon will only transfer files over Whispernet when Wi-Fi itself is on.

    If you don't have Wi-Fi turned on, you'll receive a reminder document onto your device telling you that your documents are queued and ready to be transferred and that the documents will be transferred once you turn on Wi-Fi. ,,
  3. Step 3: Open a new email message on your PC or Macintosh computer.

  4. Step 4: Enter your Send-to-Kindle email address into the "To" box.

  5. Step 5: Type "convert" in the subject box.

  6. Step 6: Attach the document as a downloadable attachment to your email.

  7. Step 7: Send the file on it's merry-way.

  8. Step 8: Locate a place where Wi-Fi is accessible.

  9. Step 9: Turn on the Kindle device.

  10. Step 10: Connect to the Wi-Fi network on your Kindle device

  11. Step 11: if it isn't already on.

  12. Step 12: Give the device a few moments to initialize

  13. Step 13: convert and receive the entire document to your Kindle.

  14. Step 14: Look for the document on the Home screen of the device

  15. Step 15: or if the Kindle is one of the Kindle Fire tablets

  16. Step 16: as a Document title on the Carousel (home screen).

Detailed Guide

If you've already created one but forgot what it was and you have your device handy, this information can be found on any Kindle on the second page of your Kindle's settings.

,,,,, If this place is your house, go to a place in your house that Wi-Fi has the best reception, along with a time when the Wi-Fi network has the highest bandwidth time by other users.

If not, your library may have a Wi-Fi network, but check with your library before spontaneously going there, to see if they do or not. ,, Even if your device has 3G capabilities, Amazon will only transfer files over Whispernet when Wi-Fi itself is on.

If you don't have Wi-Fi turned on, you'll receive a reminder document onto your device telling you that your documents are queued and ready to be transferred and that the documents will be transferred once you turn on Wi-Fi. ,,

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