And of course your Kindle must be online in order to receive the download. Note that either or both of these can take a little time before they appear, and before they appear across all your devices. You can then download it to any of your other Kindle devices without needing to email it again. mobi file will also be placed in your Kindle library. mobi file will be delivered to that Kindle the same way that purchased books are delivered. mobi file to your Kindle, two things should happen: All that matters is the “.mobi” file attached. The email message Subject and Body are optional, and completely ignored. If the address you want to use isn’t listed, you can add it.

You must send your document from one of these email addresses in order for it to be accepted. Scroll down further to the “Approved Personal Document E-mail List”: This gives you another overview list of all the email addresses associated with all of your Kindle devices and mobile applications (I told you we had several :-) ), but without the device picture for easy identification. First scroll down to the “Send-to-Kindle E-Mail Settings” portion of the page: There’s one more step: authorizing the sender.Ĭlick on the Settings tab. I actually have it in my address book as “Leo’s Kindle Fire” so I can quickly compose a message to it. It’ll be of the form, where “” is probably a combination of name and numbers.

Click on the “ Your Devices” tab to see the Kindle devices and applications that are associated with your account:Īs you can see, I’ve clicked on one of my Kindles (we have several), and beneath it the page lists the email address associated with that Kindle. It defaults to showing you “Your Content,” the Kindle books and other items in your library.

To find the email address of your Kindle, login to your Amazon account and visit the Manage Your Content & Devices () page: You can simply email the “.mobi” file as an attachment to the email address associated with your Kindle. Not everyone realizes it, but every Kindle activated with an Amazon account is assigned a unique email address. Turns out there are at least two different ways to get that book onto your Kindle.Īnd then of course you can also read the book without a Kindle device at all.

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