I’ve been using Push to Kindle for years while resident in the UK. But while I’m in Spain, none of the articles I send are arriving on my Kindle. There is good wifi here, and I am able to purchase download books from Amazon to my Kindle.
Any idea what might be going on?
I’ll let you know if they all arrive when I’m back in the UK
Welcome @DaveMcK,
I am not a dev, but I don’t think, that P2K servers are blocking people by country. So let’s try to figure out some other possibilities.
Thank you for your reply, Holger. I’ll answer each of your questions below, and see if we can figure this out.
What is your hardware in UK/ES? Same/different Laptop/PC? Mobile device?
Same laptop - a 2022 MacBook Air
You have tried with articles from the same domain in UK and ES?
Yes, most of the articles I try are the same sources.
What is your workflow? Using a browser plugin on Desktop browser or an App on iOS/Android or our bookmarklet or just by typing the URL into the form on the P2K website?
I have the PushToKindle 2.7 installed in Chrome for Mac.
Can you reach www.pushtokindle.com and pushtokindle.fivefilters.org with a browser on the same machine?
Yes, no problem
Is that your (or friends) private LAN/WLAN or kind of a Hotel/public WLAN? Try to use a cellular connection just to check if it is the local network. You may also try to use a VPN service, if possible.
It’s my private WLAN. I just tried using a VPN to send an article from BBC - that didn’t work either.
On which state is your workflow breaking? Did you see the P2K preview of the article and it is just not sending the eBook to kindle?
It’s just not sending to Kindle. I can see the preview in P2K.
You double checked your kindle email-address?
Yes
Can you provide us with an example article URL, just to make sure, there is no problem with that domain?
It’s definitely not the domains. I send mostly from news sites and Substack articles.
Can you send a test PDF or TXT file via eMail to your Kindle-eMail? Maybe there is a problem on Amazon’s side, Maybe they are blocking the eMail service when you are not at home country, while not blocking you to buy books in store.
I’ve never tried this before, so I just emailed a pdf doc to my Kindle. That didn’t work either. Does PushToKindle send via Amazon?
This is still a mystery!
Hi. P2K is sending the document via email to your specialaddress@kindle.com
That is because you have to put this mail address into the form of P2K.
If you can’t send txt/pdf to your mail address there might be indeed a problem on kindle’s side.
You approved the sender address kindle@fivefilters.org in you kindle settings at amazon.tld? And you also did so for your sender address with the pdf test mail?
That is strange. If you’re receiving okay via the UK, it should be the same via Spain.
As far as Push to Kindle is concerned, it sends articles to the Kindle address you have entered. You should be able to login to your Amazon account on their website and go the Kindle Content page to see if the articles are available in your Kindle Personal Documents Library.
If you can see your content there, it means the delivery from Push to Kindle worked okay. That would indicate that there’s an issue on Amazon’s side in delivering these documents from your Kindle library to your actual Kindle device.
I’m back in the UK, and all the articles have now appeared on my Kindle. I wasn’t aware of the existence of a Kindle Personal Documents Library. Everything is there! I strongly suspect that the issue is an Amazon’s side.
Next time I’m in Spain I’ll check that and report back. Thanks for looking into this issue.