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Kindle Setup

There is a nice benefit to using a Kindle. When you send a “personal document” (book) to your Kindle account, it will automatically download to the specific device tied to the email address you use. Even though it’s called a document, it goes into your regular library and looks just like any book you may have purchased, including the cover. In addition, that book is available on any other device or app tied to your account, so you can read the same book on your phone, a Kindle Paperwhite, and an iPad. Amazon’s WhisperSync feature will bookmark your most recent page in the background, so if you switch devices it will ask if you want to update to the most recent page read.

If you (or your users) want to have books sent directly to a Kindle from calibre-web email, then there are additional one-time setup steps for each user.

• Tell Amazon to accept books sent from your website

  • Go to www.amazon.com
  • On the top navigation bar, go to Account & Lists. In the dropdown, click on Your Content and Devices.
  • Towards the top of the white section, in the middle, click on Preferences
  • Scroll down to Personal Document Settings. Click the title to open up that section of the page.
  • Under Approved Personal Document E-mail List, click the link for "Add a new approved e-mail address"
  • In the popup, add [e-mail] and save. Done!

  Before closing the website, you might want to grab your device email address for the next step. Under the Send-to-Kindle E-Mail Settings, copy the email address where you want the books sent by default.

• Add your Kindle email address to your profile on books.yourdomain.com

  • Once logged in, on the top ride side, click your name to open your profile
  • Add your kindle email address and save
  • Your Kindle email address will be something like [e-mail]. Every Kindle device and mobile app has its own unique address, however, you can send to any of your devices and it will still be available on all of them. You can find this email address either in the Settings of the device/app, or copy it from the Devices page

Note: Kindle has started sending verification emails on every document sent if your Kindle's email is the one they generated for you. While you are on your settings page, go ahead and make up a new Kindle email address.

Enjoy!