Reviews for Push to Kindle
Push to Kindle by FiveFilters.org
74 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14993017, 6 years agoThe most important feature for me is that it's support right to left languages like Persian. Thank you!
- Rated 1 out of 5by sickie, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14908084, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13308352, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14748115, 6 years agoAll the other "send or push to kindle" methods dont work but this one. I am very very grateful for this app! Thanks!!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13753078, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 10634846, 6 years agoI've been using this app for a long time and it was a big reason for my sticking with my kindle as a reading device. However, the inability to utilise the footnote function (where readers can touch/select a footnote in a page and it will appear at the bottom of the page) rather than having to go all the way to the end of the document, is a real shortcoming. I'm familiar with arguements against footnotes - i.e. that they are a distraction, but if an author inculdes them in a text it is surely because they think it important and it is then up to the reader whether s/he divert her attention from the body of the text to read the footnote or not. In any case, having to go to the back of the document to read them is a much greater distraction. It would make this addon that much more useful-- perfect, even, if it had this feature.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14670710, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14668362, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Khushal Sharma, 6 years agoThis is must have add on, if you own a ebook reader. Does perfect job of sending almost all webpage to kindle.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14588298, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Robert, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fladrif, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14540761, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11692342, 6 years agoThanks for this great app! A couple of notes:
- It would be great to have a setting which would let us leave links within the text since Kindle has a built-in browser
- Sometimes problems happen with non-latin texts. For example, only a small portion is shown for this article: https://gorky.media/context/istoriki-boyatsya-matematikov-iz-za-fomenko/ - Rated 5 out of 5by jose, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14400094, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by C2RLO, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jonson mack, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14339976, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by natassja, 6 years agoI've bypassed this addon for so long because I'm using Pocketbook and the addon's name screams "I'm for Kindle users only!" You should change its name to Push to e-reader. It was pure coincidence I found out Pocketbook users can use it too.
EDIT. as for localized letters converting to symbols, well, I can't seem to replicate it to send you some sample url to investigate. Hopefully this means problem is gone.
Sadly, there is another problem. I'm premium Wyborcza.pl subscriber, I see fully displayed articles, yet they are sometimes pushed partly - generated file only contains few initial paragraphs.Developer response
posted 6 years agoThank you for the review, and your suggestion. We'll definitely think about how we can better let Pocketbook users know about this feature. I'm sorry you'd avoided it because you assumed it wouldn't work with your device.
As for the title problem. We're happy to take a look if you send us an example (URL of source article which isn't converted properly) to help@fivefilters.org
Natassja: we are working on a fix for such sites. Currently Push to Kindle makes its own request for content, and on sites like this where a subscription is required to see the entire piece, it will not get the full content. We hope to have a solution soon that will send the content you see, rather than relying on what the site gives us. - Rated 1 out of 5by ELLIOTTCABLE, 6 years agoThis add-on requires ‘read all content on all pages’ privilege, when it literally just appends the current page's URL to their own service's, and redirects you there:
e.g. http://fivefilters.org/kindle-it/send.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
This definitely should not need the permissions it demands, unless it's doing something malicious.Developer response
posted 6 years ago[2018-09-03: Update to the below, having looked into it some more: When we released the extension, there was no way to achieve what the extension does without requesting permissions that would cause Firefox to display the ominous warning you object to. It has since become possible to request access to the tab only when a user interacts with the add-on. See https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/activeTab for an explanation. We have updated the add-on accordingly. But I want to stress that the add-on was never doing anything "malicious", as you suggest above. When we originally released the add-on, before the introduction of the new permission, there was simply no way to implement what we wanted without incurring that permission warning.]
Hi there, you're right that the add-on really only just appends the current tab's URL to our Push to Kindle URL when the user clicks our toolbar button. The new URL is:
https://pushtokindle.fivefilters.org/send.php?url=[current tab url]
I think the ‘read all content on all pages’ warning Firefox shows you is really just letting you know that the permissions for the extension allow us to do more than what we're currently doing. But of course we understand the concern. We certainly don't want to be giving the impression that we're reading people's content when we're not. I'm pretty certain the permissions we require for this simple add-on to function (ie. to get the tab URL of the current page you're viewing when you click our toolbar button) have always displayed this rather stark warning.
But I'm curious if with recent WebExtension developments we can now achieve the same thing without requiring the permissions that generate this warning. We'll take a look soon. If we can do it, of course we'll reduce the permissions. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14135589, 6 years agoGreat at what it does. Simple and easy to use. No registration required.