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Is there a tool that sends webpages to my kindle?

3 points by marcamillion ↗ HN
Just got a kindle, and would like to move some of my reading offline.

I would love to have a tool that allows me to just paste the URLs for the articles I want, and it emails it to my kindle email address.

Any ideas?

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dandelany
http://www.instapaper.com :)

When you're logged in, you can access Kindle settings from: http://www.instapaper.com/user/kindle

marcamillion
Cool beans.

What's the catch? Is it free? How long will it be free?

dandelany
Instapaper's completely free. The only catch is that Amazon charges you 15 cents for any wireless delivery that isn't a book/periodical you purchased from them. So if you set Instapaper to deliver daily, it works out to a fee of ~$5/mo, ~$60/yr. I just set it to deliver weekly and the cost is negligible.
seancron
Actually, from my understanding, there's only a fee if you have it delivered over 3G.

  If you transfer personal documents to your Kindle via Wi-Fi there is no 
  delivery fee. If you transfer personal documents to your Kindle via 3G
  while inside the United States, the fee is $ .15 per megabyte.
  When traveling outside the United States, a fee of $.99 per megabyte will apply.
Source: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
robosox
This is correct. I have a Wifi-only Kindle and have never been charged for an Instapaper transfer.