Re: why isn't p.g. being user-friendly?

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.

So, all you need is a nice big NOTE on the page to remind people to whitelist the PG email address if they want the book emailed directly to their Kindle.

Josh

On Oct 30, 2012, Marcello Perathoner <[email protected]> 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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Marcello Perathoner
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