Amazon Launches ‘Send to Kindle’ Button For Web Developers and WordPress Blogs

Well, about time!

When I bought a Kindle more than two years ago, one of the first use cases I discovered was finding an article on the web, deciding it's too long to read on a glare screen and wanting to send to the Kindle's browser. What I ended up doing was adding the articles to Pocket (Read It Later at that time) and crafting a small PHP script that turned the RSS feed of Pocket's items-to-read into a simple page with links, suitable for Kindle.

I still use Kindle for that sometimes, although I've moved with most of my Web reading to a tablet.

Hmm, not sure how this is any improvement over the product of the same name from Klip.me, which I've been using for the past year. What's more, that product is a browser extension allowing you to send any article from any website to your device. This one requires individual content websites to add a button for every piece of shareable content—seems like a totally backwards way to implement this compared to what already exists! Kind of surprised Amazon's playing catch up so uncreatively...

What's missing for the kindle is a decent RSS reader. hopefully with the closure of google reader something will come up.

Already started to implement this on my blog http://www.millwoodonline.co.uk/blog, works well with schema.org meta data too.

I feel a patent coming along for this awesome piece of original thinking... /sarcasm

Does amazon charge the kindle user for this? How does it deliver to your kindle?

Great, another button to pollute the UI along with all the social ones. :(