I believe eBook readers are the future of reading.  I have been using a Sony eBook reader for years  which I have enjoyed immensely. So back in the Autumn I decided it was time for an upgrade  and bought one of the latest Kindle eBook readers. I have not been disapointed in the least. It is a wonderful piece of technology that I find more useful by the day.

Apart from it’s obvious function for reading books, newspapers and magazines  which I have written about elsewhere, Kindle recently added a terrific new function called Send to Kindle. This allows you to send any document – Word,  text file or PDF –  from your desktop straight to your Kindle device to read at your lesiure.

For example, I use  Send to Kindle all the time to copy text from interesting web pages that I don’t have time to study. I paste the text into a Word document and then right click on my mouse and click on the command Send to Kindle. Within a minute or two, the document is formatted and ready for me to read whenever I like on my Kindle.

It’s a perfect tool for research and works flawlessly and all you need do is download some software from Amazon.

You can send documents to your Kindle in different formats. Mostly I stick with Word, but you can also send PDFs. All you  have to d oin this case is select Print and choose Send to Kindle.

To send multiple documents to Kindle without opening them, simply select documents and choose Send to Kindle from the right-click menu in Windows Explorer.

If yo already own a Kindle, give it a try and I bet you’ll find it very useful.