On 10/30/2012 02:06 PM, Alex Buie wrote:
CMIIW, but don't you have to manually add an email address to the "approved" list before it can send things to your kindle? This is how it was back with my K2 and K3, not sure if they changed it for fire.
My default email worked right out of the box.
If so, it would be trivial to have a system where a "user" can specify the username that the email comes from as part of clicking the send-to-kindle button. (Like, a text field or something). So I whitelisted alex.buie123@mailer.gutenberg.org, and someone else whitelists bowerbird321@mailer.gutenberg.org, etc, so you have to know someone's "secret key" in order to send a book to their kindle.
That means people would have to authorize one random *@gutenberg.org address on their Amazon account, then remember that address and re-enter it at the gutenberg.org site, plus they have to remember their Kindle email address and enter that one too. That is 3 steps to get right, and quite incomprehensible steps for a non-tech user too. I think it will be a big user-interface fiasco and as user-friendly as Greenland is by Australia. That data would still be too sensitive to leave on an open system like ibiblio. All in all I think it is not worth the candle, but if you want to implement that on readingrooms I'll be glad to put a link on the bibrec pages, with the appropriate parameters, so it would be one click from the bibrec page to your "login" page. Still the wrong solution politically. Regards -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org