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Why use this over http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle? There's a browser extension as well.

by ikeboy 11y ago

perseusprime11 11y ago
This one does not have ads. Five filters comes with ads. Big differentiator!
- k1m 11y ago
  We do not add ads to the articles. Our project goal is to promote independent, non-corporate media, so on occasion we have added links to criticism of certain corporate media outlets at the end of articles coming from said media.
shitgoose 11y ago
very nice! Thanks for the tip!
rajeefmk 11y ago
With Amazon's notorious history of locking up / wiping devices in name of DRM (ref 1, ref2) , I wouldn't be surprised if people would prefer pushing it directly to kindle instead of through Amazon. (Atleast one layer scrutiny is avoided). That said, this looks pretty clean. Ref 1: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/oct/22/amazon-wipes-customers-kindle-deletes-account http://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/oct/22/amazon-wipes-cu... Ref 2: http://boingboing.net/2009/07/30/high-school-student-1.html http://boingboing.net/2009/07/30/high-school-student-1.html
- ikeboy 11y ago
  Doesn't matter. This site just sends it to Amazon to send to your kindle, it doesn't push it directly.
  - k1m 11y ago
    That's correct. It goes to your Amazon.com Kindle account. But we also let users download EPUB and MOBI versions directly without sending to Amazon servers. So that's also an option if you prefer to side load the files.
k1m 11y ago
I'm the creator of the FiveFilters.org Push to Kindle service. The technical difference, as far as I'm aware, is that the Amazon version works by using Javascript on your browser to identify the content block and send it to your account. We make a separate request for the content from the server. The JS method works better in many cases (e.g. if the page you're viewing is not publicly accessible - paywall perhaps). The implementation, however, is problematic for many people. See user reviews of the Amazon version at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for-google/cgdjpilhipecahhcilnafpblkieebhea/reviews https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for... and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sendtokindle/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sendtokindle/ User reviews of our extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/push-to-kindle/pnaiinchjaonopoejhknmgjingcnaloc/reviews https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/push-to-kindle/pna... and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kindle-it/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kindle-it/ and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fivefilters.kindleit https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fivefilter... Another difference is that we offer an Android app and an email service to get articles to your Kindle account. Amazon does not offer this themselves yet. Their send to Kindle offering on Android is for personal documents on the device itself. I should also add that when we released Push to Kindle, Amazon did not offer their own browser extensions. So although we weren't the first, we weren't competing with Amazon.
- ikeboy 11y ago
  Did your sales drop off after Amazon released sendtokindle?
  - k1m 11y ago
    We only sell the Android app. Haven't noticed a huge difference there. I'm sure it would affect it if Amazon created an alternative. As for browser extension use, it's not something we actively track. But active user stats, reported by Chrome Web Store, have not been increasing much. Not sure if that's a direct result of Amazon's own extension, but could well be.
rajeefmk 10y ago
I tried using amazon's browser extension (for FireFox) and I must say its dead slow compared to this.

Why use this over http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle? There's a browser extension as well.

by ikeboy 11y ago

Why use this over http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle? There's a browser extension as well.

perseusprime11 11y ago

This one does not have ads. Five filters comes with ads. Big differentiator!

k1m 11y ago
We do not add ads to the articles. Our project goal is to promote independent, non-corporate media, so on occasion we have added links to criticism of certain corporate media outlets at the end of articles coming from said media.

shitgoose 11y ago

very nice! Thanks for the tip!

rajeefmk 11y ago

With Amazon's notorious history of locking up / wiping devices in name of DRM (ref 1, ref2) , I wouldn't be surprised if people would prefer pushing it directly to kindle instead of through Amazon. (Atleast one layer scrutiny is avoided). That said, this looks pretty clean. Ref 1: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/oct/22/amazon-wipes-customers-kindle-deletes-account http://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/oct/22/amazon-wipes-cu... Ref 2: http://boingboing.net/2009/07/30/high-school-student-1.html http://boingboing.net/2009/07/30/high-school-student-1.html

ikeboy 11y ago
Doesn't matter. This site just sends it to Amazon to send to your kindle, it doesn't push it directly.
- k1m 11y ago
  That's correct. It goes to your Amazon.com Kindle account. But we also let users download EPUB and MOBI versions directly without sending to Amazon servers. So that's also an option if you prefer to side load the files.

k1m 11y ago

I'm the creator of the FiveFilters.org Push to Kindle service. The technical difference, as far as I'm aware, is that the Amazon version works by using Javascript on your browser to identify the content block and send it to your account. We make a separate request for the content from the server. The JS method works better in many cases (e.g. if the page you're viewing is not publicly accessible - paywall perhaps). The implementation, however, is problematic for many people. See user reviews of the Amazon version at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for-google/cgdjpilhipecahhcilnafpblkieebhea/reviews https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for... and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sendtokindle/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sendtokindle/ User reviews of our extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/push-to-kindle/pnaiinchjaonopoejhknmgjingcnaloc/reviews https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/push-to-kindle/pna... and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kindle-it/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kindle-it/ and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fivefilters.kindleit https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fivefilter... Another difference is that we offer an Android app and an email service to get articles to your Kindle account. Amazon does not offer this themselves yet. Their send to Kindle offering on Android is for personal documents on the device itself. I should also add that when we released Push to Kindle, Amazon did not offer their own browser extensions. So although we weren't the first, we weren't competing with Amazon.

ikeboy 11y ago
Did your sales drop off after Amazon released sendtokindle?
- k1m 11y ago
  We only sell the Android app. Haven't noticed a huge difference there. I'm sure it would affect it if Amazon created an alternative. As for browser extension use, it's not something we actively track. But active user stats, reported by Chrome Web Store, have not been increasing much. Not sure if that's a direct result of Amazon's own extension, but could well be.

rajeefmk 10y ago

I tried using amazon's browser extension (for FireFox) and I must say its dead slow compared to this.