Interesting--I was considering getting a Kindle but wasn't sure of an easy way to get my non-Amazon ebook collection over to it. This looks pretty simple given I already have them in my Dropbox account which I use on my iPad to push to the iBooks app.
In terms of the Kindle's ability to handle PDFs, does it allow for resizing the page? Or is it pretty important to get the PDF page sizes "kindle-sized" to have a hope of reading it without a magnifying glass?
In my experience, I've found that the Kindle can convert PDFs pretty well as long as there is extractable text that's not too weirdly formatted (as a cursory test, try viewing a PDF and highlighting words. If you can do it, it's probably okay to convert). Otherwise, it's true that you'll probably run into sizing issues :(
Amazon took me to my country's Amazon site. From there, the snippet button did not work. Also I could not get the precise action behind: "pick your Kindle devices, and you're good to go". So I stopped right there.
The snippet scrapes the Amazon site for information about your Kindle devices. It's possible that it's failing because of different Amazon UIs depending on the country. There should be a message letting you know that it failed.
Make sure you're on the Amazon site when you click the snippet. If it's successful, there should be a list of devices that you "pick" by clicking the names. Once you click the "Activate Kindlebox", that should be it.
Please email me at swang93@mit.edu if you're still having trouble!
Hey, thanks for the heads up. It's likely because I was matching the host string with "amazon.com". I just pushed a change that should fix that, so you may see the modal as you should now. It's possible there are still errors since I'll need more time to figure out how to scrape other countries' Amazon pages.
If something goes wrong, we can continue this over email at swang93@mit.edu. Thanks!
I just email them to my kindle thought. http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/email