# How to Send EPUBs and Articles to Your Kindle > Kindle reads EPUB files now, but only through the side door. Here is how to send books and articles to your Kindle in two clicks with Screvi, the manual ways when you need them, and the approval step that silently breaks everything. My reading library lives in Screvi. My favorite place to actually read is a Kindle. Until recently, connecting the two meant downloading an EPUB, walking it over to Amazon's uploader, and sending it again by hand. For articles there was no path at all. That gap is closed. Screvi now sends both, straight from the app: any EPUB in your library, and any article you've saved, delivered to your Kindle by email. Setup takes two minutes, once. After that it's two clicks per book. I'll cover the built-in integration first, then the manual routes for files that live outside Screvi. ## Before you start Three things about Kindle delivery that save you a support ticket later: - **The file must be DRM-free.** An EPUB bought from another store or borrowed from a library app usually carries DRM and will fail silently. Files from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, indie authors, or your own exports work fine. - **Sent books land under "Docs", not "Books".** They read the same, but they live on a different shelf of your Kindle library. - **Amazon only accepts documents from approved senders.** Mail from anyone else is deleted with no bounce and no error. If you've ever emailed a book to your Kindle and watched nothing happen, this is why. ## The Screvi way ### Two minutes of setup 1. On Amazon, open *Manage Your Content and Devices → Preferences → Personal Document Settings* and copy your Kindle's `@kindle.com` address. 2. In Screvi, go to [Integrations → Send to Kindle](https://app.screvi.com/integrations/send-to-kindle) and paste it. The page shows your personal Screvi sender address, something like `kindle+a1b2c3@screvi.com`. It's unique to your account, so nobody else can push documents to your device. 3. Back on the Amazon page, add that sender address to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List. Done. You never touch this again. ### Sending a book Open your Library, open the menu on any book with an EPUB file, choose **Send to Kindle**. Screvi emails the original file, with the cover, formatting, and images exactly as you imported them. Kindle takes EPUB natively now, so there's no conversion roulette; a few minutes later the book is on your device, synced across everything on your Amazon account. Files must be under 25MB, and it's EPUB only for now (PDFs aren't supported yet). ### Sending an article This is the part no uploader or cable can do. Every article in Screvi has the same **Send to Kindle** action in its menu. Screvi builds a clean EPUB out of it: title, author, images, and a link back to the original, then emails it like a book. Long reads are the killer use case. That 40-minute essay you saved three weeks ago reads completely differently on e-ink, with no tabs and nothing asking for your attention. ## The manual ways For files that don't live in Screvi, Amazon's own routes work well: - **[Send to Kindle on the web](https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle).** Sign in, drag the EPUB into the browser, pick a device. Files up to 200MB, nothing to install. The method I'd give anyone for a one-off file. - **Email it yourself.** Send the EPUB as an attachment to your `@kindle.com` address from an email you've added to your approved senders list. - **Your phone's share sheet.** With the Kindle app installed, tap an EPUB in your downloads, hit Share, choose Kindle. - **Calibre over USB.** A raw EPUB copied by cable won't open, but [Calibre](https://calibre-ebook.com) converts to Kindle's native format in bulk. The trade-off: USB-loaded books skip Amazon's cloud, so no position sync and no backup. Worth it at fifty books, not at one. ## When the book doesn't arrive Almost every failed send is one of these: the sender isn't on your approved list, the file has DRM, the `@kindle.com` address doesn't match Personal Document Settings exactly, the file is too big, or the book arrived fine and is sitting under "Docs" while you stare at "Books". The [docs page](/docs/integrations/send-to-kindle) has the full checklist. ## Where the highlights go One catch nobody warns you about: highlights made in sideloaded books don't appear in your [Kindle notebook](https://read.amazon.com/notebook), which only shows store-bought titles. They're saved on the device in a file called `My Clippings.txt`. They're not lost, and this is where the loop closes. [Sync your Kindle highlights to Screvi](/docs/sync/kindle) or drop `My Clippings.txt` into the [free clippings viewer](/tools/kindle-myclippings-viewer), and every highlight from every book, store-bought or sent, ends up in one searchable library. Book goes out, highlights come home. That's the whole system.