The Push to Kindle app for Android lets you send web articles you encounter on your Android device to your Kindle. The articles can then be opened and read like the books in your library. Read long-form web articles, or just save articles for later reading.
While the use case is genuine I do wish i could frequently read blogs and articles on my kindle. There is an existing solution i use, I can open articles on my kindle directly as well thanks to the in built in browser.
Also i read a lot of my content on paid sites, does it manage to handle content behind pay walls?
Also why not make it a plug in for my browser, since i mostly discover blogs and articles from my laptop?
Just thoughts to ponder about.
@niharonline Thanks for the feedback, Nihar. Kindle e-readers do have browsers, but the experience isn't the same as reading a book you purchase and load from your Kindle library. Push to Kindle does a lot of cleanup on web articles and generates an actual ebook that gets added to your Kindle library, so you can use many of the features designed for reading purchased books when reading web articles too. It might not be worth it for short articles, but for longer-form content it can be very helpful.
As for reading content on paid sites, it depends on the paywall. Currently our mobile apps do not have access to content loaded in your browser, so for content that requires a subscription, it won't work. For content that's behind what's called a soft paywall (e.g. read x articles free and then pay), often the app will be able to retrieve those articles without trouble.
But concerning that last point and a plugin for the browser, we do actually have browser extensions, and those work by sending the article content directly from your browser tab, so if you subscribe to content that's behind a paywall, Push to Kindle can send it to your Kindle account. See https://www.fivefilters.org/push... for links.
Hi all,
We've launched our new Push to Kindle app for Android. It lets you send web articles you encounter on your Android device to your Kindle. The articles can then be opened and read like the books in your library. It's useful for reading long-form web articles, or just saving material for later reading.
The new app is free to use with a 20 articles/month sending limit.
The easiest way to use is it is to have the Amazon Kindle app installed alongside Push to Kindle. We'll then use that to handle the delivery.
I hope some of you here find it useful. And if you have any questions, feel free to comment and I'll be happy to respond.
I have been using Push to Kindle for a while now to send web articles to Kindle. Using the AI Summary Helper you can inject an AI summary before sending the article to your Kindle device.
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