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. 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. Bonus points for remembering the person's "tripcode" (if you will) and email addy between book sends (in a cookie?) I think a full-blown login system is overkill for this. Greg: I'd love to try implementing such a thing on readingroo.ms, what are your thoughts on it? On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:18 AM, 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
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