Push to Kindle
Send web articles (news stories, blog posts) to your Kindle
What is Push to Kindle?
"Push to Kindle" is a Firefox add-on that significantly improves the reading experience. It allows users to send web articles, such as news stories or blog posts, to their Kindle devices for a convenient reading experience, whether online or offline. In addition to this, the add-on provides EPUB, printable PDF, and plain text downloads. Features include preview function, speedy delivery, and various output formats.
Stats
By:
FiveFilters.org
Rating:
4.31
(71)
Creation date:
2011-06-21
Weekly download count:
40
Firefox on Android:
No
Risk impact:
Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
3
Permissions:
Size:
26.73K
Email:
he*****@pushtokindle.com
URLs:
Website
,Privacy policy
Stats date:
Chrome-Stats Rank
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1180
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Summary
Improve your reading experience.
Push to Kindle lets you send web articles (news stories, blog posts) to your Kindle or Pocketbook for easy reading. It also offers EPUB, printable PDF, and plain text downloads.
- "The Push to Kindle app is possibly the greatest tab-clearer ever invented" - Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post journalist
- "Use Push to Kindle to send any webpage you are on (phone or laptop) to your Kindle" - Kevin Kelly, Wired co-founder
- "It does a superb job of converting webpages so that they’re perfectly formatted for the Kindle" - Alan Jacobs, literary critic
Features
- Speedy delivery to your Kindle
- Preview showing you what will get sent to the Kindle
- Download article as EPUB, MOBI or PDF
- Free (10 credits a month, with possibility to subscribe for more)
- Click our toolbar button on a page that you'd like to read on your Kindle.
- Check the preview that appears and follow the instructions
When you click the addon's toolbar button, it sends the URL of the current tab you are viewing to our web service. We then make a separate request for the content using the URL submitted and attempt to extract only the relevant content.
User reviews
User reviews summary
Pros
- fast and easy to use
- bypasses pop-up paywalls
- supports right to left languages
Cons
- now limited to 10 free shipments
- book advertisements with potentially controversial political ideology
- does not work behind university proxy and paywall
- inability to utilize footnote function
Most mentioned
- free alternatives
- 20 articles limit
- right to left languages support
Recent reviews
Very bad service and abusive developers! before they allowed up to 20 shipments, now only 10 free shipments and on top of that they have the stone face to raise the price to three dollars a month!!! There are better free alternatives, don't download this extension.
Safety
Risk impact
Push to Kindle is safe to use. It does not request any sensitive permissions.
Risk likelihood
Push to Kindle has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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