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Kindle Automation for the Mac
Kindle Automation for the Mac gives Mac users seven powerful automations to make their Kindles even more valuable. Want more time to read? Want to read more on your Kindle? This book shows you step-by-step how to schedule automatic downloads from over 400 newspapers, magazines and blogs not available in the Kindle store, for free. You'll learn how to convert PDFs and Word documents to ebooks and have them emailed to your Kindle all by simply dragging and dropping the file once. All the software applications needed by the book are free and some of it is already on your Mac.
In Kindle Automation for the Mac, you learn how to choose from over 400 newspapers, magazines and blogs to schedule free downloads. These titles are not available in the Kindle store. The list is growing all the time and there is the opportunity to add your own publications to the system so you're receiving the news you want compiled into an ebook format to be read offline on the Kindle whenever you want.
The book takes you step-by-step through automatically converting multiple file formats to eBooks for easy reading on the Kindle. No more pale fonts and illegible text when you load PDFs that weren't meant to be read on the Kindle.
When you're browsing the internet on your computer or mobile device and you come across an interesting article that you don't have time to read now... You'll click a single button on your browser to have the page saved, added to any others you've selected, compiled into an ebook and sent to the Kindle. One click and that's all done for you.
You'll even learn how to have documents and ebooks transferred to your Kindle immediately you plug it in via USB. That's all you'll have to do, just plug in the USB cable and watch your documents transfer straightaway.
Kindle Automation for Mac shows you how to get more onto your Kindle while having more time for reading it.
The author, Steven Lewis, is a consumer technology journalist with almost 20 years' experience in making technology accessible to consumers. In this step-by-step guide he makes it easy to build complete automations on your Mac. If you haven't experimented with automation on the Mac before, it's a window into a world of possibilities.
In Kindle Automation for the Mac, you learn how to choose from over 400 newspapers, magazines and blogs to schedule free downloads. These titles are not available in the Kindle store. The list is growing all the time and there is the opportunity to add your own publications to the system so you're receiving the news you want compiled into an ebook format to be read offline on the Kindle whenever you want.
The book takes you step-by-step through automatically converting multiple file formats to eBooks for easy reading on the Kindle. No more pale fonts and illegible text when you load PDFs that weren't meant to be read on the Kindle.
When you're browsing the internet on your computer or mobile device and you come across an interesting article that you don't have time to read now... You'll click a single button on your browser to have the page saved, added to any others you've selected, compiled into an ebook and sent to the Kindle. One click and that's all done for you.
You'll even learn how to have documents and ebooks transferred to your Kindle immediately you plug it in via USB. That's all you'll have to do, just plug in the USB cable and watch your documents transfer straightaway.
Kindle Automation for Mac shows you how to get more onto your Kindle while having more time for reading it.
The author, Steven Lewis, is a consumer technology journalist with almost 20 years' experience in making technology accessible to consumers. In this step-by-step guide he makes it easy to build complete automations on your Mac. If you haven't experimented with automation on the Mac before, it's a window into a world of possibilities.
107 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 14, 2010
About the author
Steven Lewis
8 books69 followersA journalist and writer for nearly 20 years, Steven Lewis has written for the Financial Times, Esquire, GQ, the International Herald Tribune and other publications around the world. A long-time resident of Hong Kong, he had popular television and consumer technology columns in the South China Morning Post. He was also the technology editor of Asian Business. His audio programs are part of the inflight entertainment on several airlines.
He first published online in 1994 and today his titles are in print, electronic and audio versions from Amazon, Apple and Audible, among others.
He first published online in 1994 and today his titles are in print, electronic and audio versions from Amazon, Apple and Audible, among others.
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