EduKindle

Imagine my surprise when I got an email from Amazon telling me that my Kindle was out of memory and that they were waiting to download some content onto my Kindle but that there was no place to put it.

“Once you free up space,” the email told me, “the waiting items will be automatically delivered to your Kindle. You can also select “Check for New Items” on the Home screen menu to get new content.”

Kinda cool. Sure beats me wondering why my newspaper wasn’t delivered this morning…

When I got the notice, I took the 2G SD card out of Robin’s camera and put it in the Kindle, after powering down, of course. When I fired back up, the Wall Street Journal and a couple of other items popped right onto the SD card. Really, pretty smooth!

Half of what I lug with me on a plane or train is stuff from work that I have to read. Much of it is Word documents, some PDFs. My goal was to see how much of this paper I could convert for the Kindle.

This is as easy as it gets. You just email your document to the folks at Kindle and they will convert it and send it back to your Kindle wirelessly, all for the exorbitant fee of ten cents. That’s right, a dime. You can send a Word document and certain kinds of PDFs to yourname@kindle.com and they will shoot it back onto your Kindle in a jiffy (really, mine was there as soon as I checked for it a minute or two later), or you can send the document to yourname@free.kindle.com, and they will email the converted document right back to you at no charge. Just connect the USB and drag it into the “documents” folder on your Kindle.