Read Rss News Feeds On Your Kindle

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Up until recently the Amazon Kindle could only be used to read books brought from the Amazon store. A new free service called KindleSend changes that by allowing you to automatically download RSS news feeds, email, webpage's, etc and read them on your Kindle.

Up until recently the Amazon Kindle could only be used to read books brought from the Amazon store. A new free service called KindleSend changes that by allowing you to automatically download RSS news feeds, email, webpage's, etc and read them on your Kindle.

So how does it work?
After creating an account, entering your kindle's email address and giving permission for KindleSend to send you documents (in your Amazon account). You can choose from a list of free reading sources, including fanfiction, RSS feeds, websites, etc. The service handles the downloading and sending of those sources to your Kindle automatically without having to install anything on your computer or been connected to the internet.

Available Sources:

Kindle RSS Feeds
Choose from a wide range of existing Kindle RSS news feeds or create your own custom RSS news feed. ...
... The RSS news feeds are automatically downloaded, processed, and combined into a single document specifically formatted for reading on the Amazon kindle.
Kindle Email
The Kindle is designed for reading books, it's not designed for writing documents, browsing the web, or reading email. KindleSend changes some of that; it allows you to read email on your kindle. It downloads your last 50 emails, combines them into a single document and formats it specifically for reading on the Kindle in a similar way to how you read newspapers on your Kindle. It doesn't allow you to send email, but it does allow you to read your email in foreign countries or just keep important messages available at a moment’s notice.
Kindle Newspapers
Amazon currently provides newspaper subscriptions but the costs of these are pretty high, i.e. over $20 USD per month. Thankfully you can get the most popular news subscriptions for free via KindleSend; free subscriptions such as the Guardian, BBC News, etc.
Kindle FanFiction.Net
Apart from RSS feeds, email, & newspapers; support for integration with third-party content sources such as FanFiction.Net and Instapaper are provided. For FanFiction.Net, all the stories in your favorite stories list from your FanFiction.Net account are sent to your kindle; when a new chapter for one of your favorite stories is detected, the story on your Kindle is automatically updated with the new chapter.
Kindle WebPages
Send the contents of a webpage to your kindle, any adverts/headers etc are automatically removed and only the core contents are sent. You can also optionally monitor the webpage for changes and update the version stored on your Kindle as and when a change happens.

Scheduled Kindle RSS Deliveries
You can control how and when Kindle RSS, email, & news are sent to your Kindle. If you leave home at 8 am, you can send everything to your Kindle at 7:30 am so that all your RSS feeds, email, & news are ready and waiting to be read during your commute to work and because everything is stored offline as a snapshot, you don't need an active internet connection allowing you to read on the train/tube etc.

Is it any Good?
The simple answer is YES; KindleSend allows you to use your Kindle for so much more and provides dynamic content, i.e. new reading material on a daily basis. It's simple to use, and most importantly free.
Resource: http://www.kindlesend.com/