How to Use Your Kindle as a Read It Later Device – NDTV

When you think of Amazon’s Kindle, the first thing That would eat to your minds is probably books. But for people like me Who Read more articles than books online, This e-book reader can be immensely useful too. After buying a Kindle Paperwhite During Amazon’s latest sale, I Explored The Possibility of using it as a read it later device, to catch up on articles and blog posts in my free time.

Why Kindle?
My reasoning behind buying a Kindle spawns from the fact That I spend over 10 hours a day staring at a bright, colorful screen (Either my laptop or my phone). The Kindle’s e-paper display is Easier on the eyes than any typical screen.

And it’s a “Retina” display as well, with a pixel density of 300 PPI, so will Appear sharp text. Since the Kindle does not run a smart operating system like Android or iOS, Also it frees you from the constant notifications That would keep popping if you’re using an iPad for reading. Even if you turn on Do Not Disturb, some self-discipline is required to try and keep from multitasking Between your reading materials and say, Twitter (or any other app you use Often).

Lastly, thanks to The Simple display and modest hardware to Kindle When fully charged will keep running for days, or even weeks, Between charges, while reading on your phone will only drain mobile battery depleting That forever.

Read it later
At work, I keep coming across interesting stories that I want to read at leisure . Typically, I’d use the Pocket app on my computer and phone to save things for later. There are plenty of apps that Deliver content saved in your Pocket to your Kindle for reading offline handler (such as Pocket to Kindle or En2Kindle). So, just from syncing content to your Kindle Pocket Should be simple process, right

Here lies the problem – I’m used to saving not just written content But Also video and pictures; heck I even add websites and apps I want to check out later. Pocket categorise can we save the content into it as Articles, Videos and Images, but I have not found a single third-party Pocket-to-Kindle That service lets you send only articles and not everything that’s saved. And since the Kindle is designed to use for text content, there’s no point in all the other audio-visual content traveling to it.

Send to Kindle
Amazon offers plugins for desktop web browsers like Chrome and Firefox that (like Pocket) will send a cleaned-up version of a webpage (retaining the content, skipping the rest) to your Kindle. It worked more reliably in my experience When Compared to the third-party services Mentioned above. Also I prefer That It Creates separate books for each article archived, and does not collate all articles into one single book.

But using two archiving services Also Means a change in Existing Behaviour. While I still use Pocket to save multimedia content like video or apps, I now save all read it later posts using Amazon’s plugin.

What about sending to Kindle from a smartphone? There is Also a
Send to Kindle app for Android, but it does not let you save articles from your mobile browser. If you’re using Adobe Reader, Documents to Go, or ES File Explorer, you can send documents from your phone to your Kindle as well.

That is not really useful if you’re reading an article in Chrome or Twitter and want to save it to Kindle for later reading. This is Where Push to Kindle by FiveFilters comes in handy for Android. Personal It’s a tiny app That Uses the Kindle Document Service to push articles to your e-reader in a single tap on the share sheet. Also you can use the same service to email documents to your Kindle – attach a PDF or Word file, and send it to your [name] @ kindle.com email ID, and the attached file will be saved as an ebook to read at your leisure. The only downside is That every time you use Amazon esta service, you get an email about it. That can be fixed by creating a filter in your email service Automatically That Makes These messages skip the inbox.

Meanwhile, the Kindle app for iOS or Android Also can be used to read the articles you’re sending to your Kindle, if you want to. The app Allows you to see the full list of articles you’ve sent, and you can manually download and Then read the books, if you want to.

Have Been Life would much simpler if Pocket and Kindle Could officially work together, but I speculate there’s some contractual limitation since officially supports Pocket rival e-book reader Kobo. I Could have just bought Kobo Instead of a Kindle, but ITS Seems sparse availability in India.

So just follow the tips we’ve listed Instead, and enjoy reading When You’re free.

Manages the content Naravane Rohan & amp; product experience at Price Baba. I can be found on Twitter @ r0han Where I Spends half of His Time praising iOS and the other half ranting about it.

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