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With official functions and additional software such as Calibre, compatible with other models of e-readers, Kindle can also become an ally for reading text documents and articles from sites web

By William Tomoyose | THE NATION

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In addition to e-book readers, like the Kindle device can serve to display various formats of text documents. Photo: AP

For fans readers, electronic devices have become indispensable allies to bring several works in one compact device having a screen e-ink technology that solves many of the drawbacks of reading in front of a personal computer or mobile phone, and using natural light (or light itself indirectly) to illuminate the pages to avoid eyestrain.

Apart from the benefits that have paper editions, e-reader they are a great resource to take advantage of electronic equipment, beyond the ability to bring thousands of books in a compact and lightweight device. Prevent eyestrain, to customize the font type and size of text, dictionaries and have a scoring system, among many other additional features.

In the market there are many options available, as the Papyre Grammata, Boris Eudeba, the line of Sony Readers and many other readers, but the device Amazon managed to stand out as the most popular choice when choosing an e-reader.

All They have access to digital libraries that allow buying work to read on your computer. The great advantage of the Kindle over other models is in performance that is integrated with Amazon online platform. For example, many added features and options such as display text documents and articles of websites.

Here are some tips for making these choices to rest our eyes and avoid spending long hours in front of backlit screens monitors, smartphones or tablets.

Read web pages in the Kindle

The Kindle can also be used to view a page of a website and, thus, continue reading on your screen electronic ink. To this should be added to configure the Send to Kindle in the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browser, which is also available for PC, Mac and Android devices. It is downloaded from www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle.

It requires the use of an Amazon account configured on the Kindle reader, you must have an Internet connection Wi-Fi.

Send documents by email

Every Kindle device configured with an Amazon account has its own email address under a nombre@kindle.com format. This service, called Kindle Personal Documents, allows the user to send, from an authorized e-mail, text documents and images to screen e-book reader.

This document delivery service email the Kindle supports Microsoft Word files (.DOC and .DOCX format), HTML, RTF and PDF. It also supports images in JPG, GIF, PNG and BMP.

To set this function you have to enter the option manage content and devices (www.amazon.com/myk) in the Amazon site and access the flap Manage my Kindle.

My devices tab you can customize the name of the e-mail of the Kindle. In turn, in Settings will be defined from which box of e-mail will be authorized to use the Kindle Personal Documents Service to avoid receiving unwanted content or spam.

Read EPUB eBooks

In most e-book readers the open source standard EPUB format is used. However, the Kindle does not support this type of files.

While there are some sites that offer the possibility to convert EPUB e-book in the Kindle format, such as www.sendepubtokindle.com, complemented with the Kindle Personal Documents Service, the best option is to use Calibre, open source software available for PC and Mac.

Calibre is a powerful tool to convert any format of text formats most common e-books, it EPUB or MOBI, the option chosen by Amazon for its Kindle devices.

Indispensable for any user of e-book readers, either the Kindle or any other option, Calibre is download free and available in www.calibre-ebook.com. .

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