The universal GP Training website for everyone, not just Bradford.   Created in 2002 by Dr Ramesh Mehay

Send your document to your Kindle

get pdf, word docs and other text files (rtf & txt) onto your kindle and annotate them!

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Why would you want to send your documents to your Kindle?

Imagine receiving a text laden document (like a NICE guide document) – too heavy to read just sat at your computer.   Imagine being able to send that document to your Kindle device and being able to read it at your leisure perhaps in the garden on a summer afternoon with a nice cup of tea. The amazing thing is that if you send your documents in the right way you can only read it but you may be able to do things like add annotations or highlight blocks of text.   You may even be able to use Amazon Kindle’s Whispersync technology to read out the document to you.   Wouldn’t that be fab?

And the thing is, it really simple to do. Interested?

How do you do it then?

1) First of all, documents have to be sent from an authorised email address to send it to your kindle device/account.

2) Now make a note of your personal Send-to-Kindle Email Address.

  • Go to your Amazon Kindle account on your device.
  • So, click here to go to your Amazon Kindle account.
  • Go to Manage Your Content and Devices.
  • From PREFERENCES tab scroll down to PERSONAL DOCUMENT SETTINGS and click it.
  • Scroll down to SEND TO KINDLE EMAIL SETTINGS
  • You should find your kindle email address.    It might be something like firstsecondname_45fdff@kindle.com
  • You can click the edit button to change it to a more friendlier name.   So, if you have an unusual name, you may be able to get away with ColverDaney@kindle.com but otherwise, you could just add your year of birth after your name e.g. ColverDaney1970@kindle.com.

3) Now for the exciting bit – how to send the document.

  • Simply send an email to your kindle email address.
  • Make sure you use your approved email sender address.
  • Don’t forget to include the attachment – pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf or mobi.
  • Add just the words “Convert” in the subject heading of the email (without the speech marks of course) – this will convert your document to kindle format where you can then add notations, highlight, change the font type and size etc.
  • Hit the send button and watch the magic happen.

My document did not convert. What next?

There are only two ebook formats – something called epub and mobi.    Most non-kindle reading devices all use epub.  ePub is the universal format.  But kindle is not particularly good with it and uses mobi instead.   Only kindle devices use mobi – trust Amazon to be different!   You won’t believe the amount of chaos this causes in the ebook world!    So, if you ever want to write a book and sell it, unless you just want to sell on the Amazon bookstore, you should create a mobi and an epub version.

  • Convert your document (pdf, word file, text file) to mobi format
  • Then simply email the mobi formatted file as an attachment to your kindle email address using your nominated email sender address.
  • No need to put “Convert” in the subject heading.  But you can if you want to, just for peace of mind.  

 

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How IT ALL STARTED
WHAT WE'RE ABOUT
WHO ARE WE FOR?

Bradford VTS was created by Dr. Ramesh Mehay, a Programme Director for Bradford GP Training Scheme back in 2001. Over the years, it has seen many permutations.  At the time, there were very few resources for GP trainees and their trainers so Bradford decided to create one FOR EVERYONE. 

So, we see Bradford VTS as  the INDEPENDENT vocational training scheme website providing a wealth of free medical resources for GP trainees, their trainers and TPDs everywhere and anywhere.  We also welcome other health professionals – as we know the site is used by both those qualified and in training – such as Associate Physicians, ANPs, Medical & Nursing Students. 

Our fundamental belief is to openly and freely share knowledge to help learn and develop with each other.  Feel free to use the information – as long as it is not for a commercial purpose.   

We have a wealth of downloadable resources and we also welcome copyright-free educational material from all our users to help build our rich resource (send to bradfordvts@gmail.com).

Our sections on (medical) COMMUNICATION SKILLS and (medical) TEACHING & LEARNING are perhaps the best and most comprehensive on the world wide web (see white-on-black menu header section on the homepage).

4th February 2024 

WHAT's HAPPENING?

Here are some updates planned over the next 6 months

  1. Updating the SCA exam pages with cases and videos.
  2. Clinical Specialty areas all being updated with current guidance and easy to understand diagrams and flow charts.
  3. Videos being created for some of the pages for those of you who prefer to watch than read.
  4. We’ve got some bradfordvts helpers to contribute and develop their own pages or areas of interest.  If you would like to be a bradfordvts helper, email me rameshmehay@googlemail.com
  5. We provide all of this for free. But it costs us money to run.  If you could kindly donate something, that would be great.  We do all of this for you.   Please hit the button below. xxx