Amazon makes its Kindles as simple and user-friendly as possible, but once you start delving into these e-readers, you will discover more and more features. This also includes the lesser-known option of loading articles from the Internet.
It’s a great way to catch up on all that online reading you never got around to, because you can work your way through your backlog of unread articles without the distraction of flashy ads, social media, breaking news and all the other.
There are a few different ways to set this up, so you can choose the one that best suits your circumstances and preferences. When you’re done catching up on the web content, you can go back to your ebooks.
Send to Kindle
Amazon has an official Send to Kindle tool that you can find on the internet: Sign in with the same Amazon account you use on your Kindle, and you can easily drag and drop files into place, or select them from your computer. Once you confirm the upload, they will appear on your Kindle in a few moments.
Supported file types include PDF, DOCX, HTML, and plain text, so if you prefer, you can prepare web articles for upload in any of these formats. Web pages can be printed in PDF format on both Windows and macOS (just choose the PDF format instead of a printer), and any web browser can save page HTML for you.
To make this even easier, you can use the Kindle for browser extension in Google Chrome (and other Chromium-based browsers, such as Microsoft Edge). This means you can send web articles to your Kindle with just a few clicks, but the page you’re viewing will also be reformatted so it’s easier to read on your e-reader.
Read it later services
Some of the most popular read-it-later services on the web support Kindle syncing, so you can save articles to these services, cutting out any distracting page extras (like ads and navigation bars) along the way before moving them to another side of the page. on your Kindle and read them at your leisure.
If you use Bag to save your item queue and then checkout P2K (Pocket-to-Kindle). The utility gives you a good degree of control over how often items are delivered and the types of items delivered. You can have five items shipped per week for free, and you also have to pay for a premium account (starting at $3 per month).
Another read-it-later service, Entry papercomes with built-in Kindle integration, but only if you pay for the premium service, which costs $6 per month. Dive into the settings of your Instapaper account to send articles to your Kindle, or use the official one Instapaper extension for Google Chrome (and other Chromium-based browsers), which lets you submit articles with just a few clicks.
If the above options don’t quite work for your setup, try an online search ending in “…to Kindle.” You can send articles and other documents from most services and platforms to your Amazon e-reader. For example, do you want to get articles from your phone to your Kindle? Push to Kindle is available for Android And iOS (as well as an extension for the popular desktop browsers).
You can send up to 10 articles per month to your Kindle for free, and if you need more, you can sign up for a premium tier of $3 per month. Push to Kindle does a good job of removing all formatting associated with web articles, and articles also support highlighting and annotating on your Kindle.
Another option worth your consideration is KTool. Like Push to Kindle, it works on desktop and mobile, and it also supports newsletters, so you can clear out your inbox a bit by sending emails to your Kindle to read later. Pricing for KTool starts at $3 per month, but you can try it for free for a week first to decide if it’s value for money.
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