I do something similar with my Sony Reader; save to instapaper, instapaper to epub, epub to ereader. Obviously the book has to be hard-wired through USB for this to work, but then it also doesn't cost me anything.
It runs the epub through calibre convert, because the sony reader has issues sometimes with the instapaper epub file - the conversion fixes it (something to do with chapters over a certain length).
Through the evening, I instapaper save anything interesting to read, then just run this script each day before I leave the house.
This is the particularly rare-groovy batch code if anyone's interested.
You get a special 'secret' email for your kindle. You aren't supposed to share it with people, so it's relatively secure. You can also change it at any time if someone does manage to get it.
You can also set a maximum cost-per-day. People can email you a document that would cost $329874 to convert, but $329874 is greater than what you've set, it will be rejected.
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Wifi is always free. (source: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_l...)
You can just go clickhappy on your pages, have them converted to mobi format, and sent to your kindle every day/week/month etc.
It runs the epub through calibre convert, because the sony reader has issues sometimes with the instapaper epub file - the conversion fixes it (something to do with chapters over a certain length).
Through the evening, I instapaper save anything interesting to read, then just run this script each day before I leave the house.
This is the particularly rare-groovy batch code if anyone's interested.
@echo off
echo. Echo Creating cookie... echo. curl -c cookies.txt -d "username=youremail&password=yourpass" http://www.instapaper.com/user/login > temp.txt
echo. echo. echo Downloading epub... echo. curl -b cookies.txt -o C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaperbad.epub http://www.instapaper.com/epub
echo. echo. echo Converting epub... echo. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\ebook-convert.exe" C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaperbad.epub C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaper.epub
echo. echo. echo Copying file to device... echo. copy /Y C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaper.epub F:\database\media\books
rem Cleanup. technically we can keep cookies and re-use. del temp.txt del C:\Users\Nick\Development\scripts\instapaperbad.epub del cookies.txt
A genuine question: how does Amazon check the autenticity of received emails? I mean: what if I forge the email address you use to send articles?
I have never had a problem with Kindle spam.