Actually, you don't have to worry about all that. The Amazon account (at least here in the US and I imagine it is done everywhere) has to have an email address on a whitelist in your account before the system will forward an emailed document/book to your Kindle. In my account, only documents sent from my own email address can get through.
On Oct 30, 2012, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
On 10/30/2012 01:33 AM, Greg Newby wrote:
> We haven't emailed books before, but I
> agree it might be desirable. I can think of some details
> that matter (i.e., preventing emailing books to strangers;
> books that are too big for email).
That would be very hard to do in a secure way.
We'd have to check each person's email to avoid people spamming other
people's Kindles with big files or with unappropriate content.
We'd have to implement a full fledged user system, with email address,
password and email confirmation. This is confidential data and quite
impossible to keep secret on a system like ibiblio, where all web
servers run as user nobody.
Furthermore Amazon could easily block that if they wanted because our IP
adress would be known. They probably have a big spam filter already that
would block us anyway.
And it would be a wrong political signal. Why should a volunteer
organization work hard to make a the crappy devices of a multi-billion
company user-friendly? After all it is not PG being user-unfriendly but
Amazon. Our politics should be to make people complain to Amazon.
The solution is quite easy: Ask Amazon to implement a function in Silk
that lets user save books to the "Books" tab. Make lots of people ask.
Regards
--
Marcello Perathoner
webmaster@gutenberg.org
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