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When I travel, I take a *lot* of reading material -- books, magazines, and articles about e-discovery and other technology issues that I've found on the internet. Yes, I'll admit it -- in the past when I found these articles, I would print them out and bring the all that paper with me on the plane -- after all, it's the best way to read those articles offline....right? Thanks to my Kindle, I can now save all those trees and leave the paper at home when I travel to the ABA Annual Meeting in New York City tomorrow. The way I did this was probably not the most elegant, but it worked great for me. Here's what I did: I had already bookmarked 11 technology articles on Delicious for later reading. I went back to those articles, and cut and pasted the text from each into a single Google Doc (there's no reason why you can't also use Word or other word processor). Then I saved the document as a PDF file, and emailed it to my Kindle email address (every Kindle user has a dedicated email address at Kindle.com). I turned on my Kindle and its wireless function, and within about 30 seconds the PDF file of my articles had downloaded to the device. Amazon says they charge 10 cents to convert this document for me, but I've done this a couple of times and so far I haven't been charged. However, Amazon will also convert a document for free, by emailing your document to your Kindle email address @free.kindle.com -- it will convert the document and mail it back to you, so you can upload it yourself to the device. Either way, I now have all my reading material loaded onto my Kindle, and I've saved paper and a lot of hassle in packing my carry-on bag. Sure, it took 10-15 minutes for all that cutting and pasting, but in my opinion it was worth the effort. The Kindle already changed the way I read books -- now it's changing the way I read other materials, as well.

Full post as published by Inter Alia on August 05, 2008 (boomark / email).