Can I move PDF and txt/html files from my computer to be read on an Amazon Kindle? When I look on the Internet it seems to require some third part work around.
Seems like you have to setup an e-mail address for your Kindle then e-mail the file to yourself. Apparently their Whispernet service will open the file and convert it for use on the Kindle then send it to the Kindle.
If the system delivers the file wirelessly to you there is a charge of $0.15/megabyte within the US.
Or just use the USB port. It used to be that PDFs needed to be converted, but nowadays I think you can just copy 'em over.
Hard to tell. From the page I linked earlier they mention moving the file via USB for free but still looks like you have to e-mail it to yourself and, I presume, their system does some conversion on it.
No, you can just use the cable to move them to the device. No e-mailing required. I’ve done it.
ETA - you do have to put it in a specific folder on the Kindle - I think it’s “Documents”. Then it just shows up as if it were a book you bought.
I do this all the time. The Kindle appears as a drive with several folders, one named “documents”. Drag your PDFs over to the documents folder and you’re done. I don’t know if it natively supports .txt and .html (though it does have a basic web browser.) I just use a PDF printer to convert any documents I want to read to PDF.
The Kindle is rather limited as a PDF reader though, it doesn’t recognise PDF bookmarks which can make it time consuming navigating any PDFs that aren’t meant to be read from start to finish such as tech manuals.
I have the Kindle DX which is ok for reading PDFs, I think the smaller Kindles would be not so good because PDF files can’t be “re-flowed” the way eBooks can be. The entire page of a PDF is shown on the screen at once. You can zoom in but it’s clunky.
I’ve got the smaller Kindle, and reading PDFs is really a pain because of the way it displays. Getting the file on there is just as easy as Zsofia and Richard Pearse have said though.
Yeah, viewing PDF is possible but occasionally ugly. You CAN use the translation-via-email service though, which sometimes helps (if your PDF is mostly text anyway, and reasonably constructed).
I had an older gen 2 model and had to update the firmware in order to have native pdf support, this page should help if the pdf isn’t working after a usb transfer:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200324680
1.) File formats the Kindle can natively support: Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC
These can be uploaded straight to your Kindle via the USB cable with no conversion required.
2.) Files you can have converted for you to the Kindle format: HTML, DOC, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
You can email these to your free Kindle email address and receive an email back with the converted document, which you can then manually upload as above. Or you can email them to the non-free address and have them converted and uploaded wirelessly via Whispernet (for I believe $0.10 each). You can also do the conversion yourself for these and many other formats with a program like Calibre, with the suggested output format being MOBI, giving you files you can then upload to the Kindle as above.