Kindle Widget

I got a Kindle for Christmas from my sister-in-law. I wrote a Kindle-This widget which should send a blog page to my kindle. I can’t see if it worked until I get home.

It will be an interesting experiment.

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9 Responses to “Kindle Widget”

  1. David Park says:
    01/05/2011 at 6:29 pm

    Sorry, this is a double post…I posted in your About page by accident:

    Nice work on your Kindle-This widget.
    Is there a way to automate the widget to send me the post at a certain time everyday?

    Thanks,
    David

  2. Keith says:
    01/02/2011 at 12:20 pm

    When you use the plugin you should receive an email from kindle when it is done. Just open the AZW file with kindle for PC.

    I think that Amazon will update the kindle for pc through the network. I don’t see, however, where amazon show you your kindle email address on kindle for PC. You may have to go to https://kindle.com in order to set that.

    Keith

  3. Mark Randolph says:
    01/02/2011 at 4:32 am

    Howdy –

    Is there going to be a version for ‘Kindle for PC’ users?
    thanks

    btw…I sent a reply earlier, but don’t see it so am trying again:-)
    Mark

  4. Mark says:
    01/02/2011 at 3:09 am

    Howdy –

    Thanks for doing this plugin; is a great idea.

    Are there any plans to release a version for the ‘Kindle for PC’? Users of this product don’t have a ‘user id @ free.kindle.com’ so this version won’t work for them. TY:-)

  5. Keith says:
    12/31/2010 at 8:15 pm

    The 1.0 version had a bug. Please upgrade to 1.1. The widget asks for the Amazon email id and the from id. It uses the WPMailer to send a copy of the page to kindle so it winds up on the device.

    Keith

  6. Chris says:
    12/31/2010 at 8:09 pm

    @Keith: this is a brilliant idea for a widget. Thank you!

    Also, I am stupid. I looked through the code but I don’t know php well enough to know what to look for. How does the plug-in email the articles? Is it using the blog’s own email settings, or something else? +how can I confirm this for myself when looking at the code?

  7. Keith says:
    12/31/2010 at 10:49 am

    Sorry, I left in some debug code that worked on my test site, but broke on other sites. 1.1 is released and is working. I was in a rush last night to release it. It was my fault.

  8. Keith says:
    12/31/2010 at 9:16 am

    You have to fill out the two fields in the form so it knows who to send it to.

    Keith

  9. Jeff says:
    12/31/2010 at 1:58 am

    Doesn’t work — “no from address specified for Kindle This widget”.

    Awesome idea though, and I would love to use it!

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