send-to-kindle

send-to-kindle is a skill for Claude Code from eins78/agent-skills. It costs 100 tokens per session (2,636 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for sending documents to an Amazon Kindle, including which file format and delivery methods to use. Kindle is Amazon's electronic reading device and service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing an existing document for Kindle delivery, choosing EPUB instead of a fixed-layout PDF, or diagnosing a delivery that appears to fail silently.
Why use it?
It helps avoid delivery failures caused by unsuitable formats or changed Amazon workflows. It is specifically for Kindle, not other e-readers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the eins78-skills plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when preparing an existing document for Kindle delivery, choosing EPUB instead of a fixed-layout PDF, or diagnosing a delivery that appears to fail silently.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eins78/agent-skills/send-to-kindle
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add eins78/agent-skills --skill send-to-kindle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eins78/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install eins78-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin send-to-kindle/plugin install send-to-kindle after adding the marketplace above.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,636 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00100 $0.02636
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.01318
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00527
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00264

Measured 11d ago against content hash f53cdf1c0891, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

send-to-kindle scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/send-to-kindle/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

send-to-kindle

Delivering a document to a Kindle. Covers what to produce, how it gets there, and the two failure modes that give no error message.

Producing the file is the pandoc skill's job — scripts/md2kindle-epub.sh turns markdown into a suitable EPUB. This skill starts at "the file exists".

Everything below is service behaviour, and it moves. Between 2022 and 2026 Amazon stopped accepting MOBI, started accepting EPUB, killed USB download of purchased books, and retired Word's Send-to-Kindle button. Statuses here are as of 2026-08; re-verify before relying on a dated claim.

Produce EPUB, not PDF

EPUB Reflowable — text re-wraps to the reader's font size and margins. Kindles do not render EPUB natively; Send-to-Kindle converts it server-side into the device's own format (KFX/AZW3) on delivery, which is what buys reflow, resizable type, and a native TOC. Free, no local tooling.
PDF Fixed-layout. A PDF page is a fixed canvas — on a 6" screen it either shrinks to illegible or needs constant pan/zoom. Right for print, wrong for reading. An A5 print booklet is roughly 60% wider than a Paperwhite's visible area.
MOBI / AZW Not accepted as input since August 2022. Don't reach for an old MOBI recipe.
AZW3 (locally converted) Only needed for the USB path — see below.

Delivery routes (status as of 2026-08)

Route Status Notes
Send-to-Kindle email (…@kindle.com) Works The default. Wireless, works over a phone hotspot. See the three facts below
Web upload (sendtokindle.com, drag-and-drop) Works Manual, but no sender allowlist to trip over
Kindle mobile app → "Import file" Works Only useful if the reader reads on the phone
USB sideload into documents/ Works A raw .epub copied over USB is not indexed by the Kindle library — convert to AZW3 locally first (e.g. Calibre). Email delivery gets that conversion for free. Unaffected by the 2025 removal of USB download for purchased Kindle Store books, which is a different thing
Send to Kindle desktop app Being retired Kindle for PC and the Windows desktop app shut down 2026-06-30. Email and web upload do not depend on it
Send to Kindle from Microsoft Word Retired 2026-02-09 The button is gone; web upload is unaffected
Wireless delivery to older hardware Cut off for pre-2013 devices The May-2026 cutoff hit Paperwhite 1 and older only. 2018-era hardware and newer keep full wireless delivery

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 193 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A f53cdf1c0891

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send-to-kindle is a skill published in the GitHub repository eins78/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 2,636 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.