Eric Franklin's dashboard

Check out feedbooks.com. They have many files in .mobi format, which the Kindle renders perfectly. Just hook the Kindle up to your PC and drop them into the books folder on the drive that your PC mounts.

I like Mike's suggestion to feed Faves into FriendFeed, too. I just wish FriendFeed would add a custom feed for Faves. This enables private sharing, comment postback, and also overloads their generic blog feed icon, which is less confusing for readers. I also wish Faves could add a feed key for friends-only sharing into Facebook, Plaxo Pulse, Jaiku, 30 Boxes, and other privacy-capable lifestreams.

Better yet, since Faves chooses to focus and do one thing well (rather than do everything like Facebook or Multiply), please adopt OAuth to enable private sharing and comment postback with larger social networks.

Even more edgy, follow that philosophy and rather than handle comments, let Disqus handle and lifestream them. Then instead focus on adding tag intersection, unions, and other improvements.

Hey Mike, Great answer and I think it's a pretty good idea to use reputation-based feedback to submit content to buzz. I can't help but wonder, however, if it might make sense to help along new users and not make the site an incestuous circle of self-referrals. A lot of my content makes it to buzz because I have nearly 200 friends on Faves. I think that there should maybe be a Digg-like function of the site for people without networks to view and populate the homepages by clicking through and voting on new sites as they come in. It could provide a lot more utility to the Faves pages. Right now I see a lot junk by people who have gamed the system. – Eric Franklin, on May 05, 2008 23:35

Cool suggestion. You can get the reverse by adding your Faves RSS feed to Friend Feed. But, I know you've then got to rebuild your network on Friend Feed.

There's also AutoFaving your Friend Fave to pull all that stuff into Faves. Right now, I AutoFave by Google Reader shared items, but Friend Feed might be a better "aggregator".

This link talks about setting your Kindle email:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custome...

I forgot to mention one key point. It costs 10 cents to mail attachments to your kindle. I guess that's the cost of the processing. You can actually send .docs and other files and they will get converted to readable formats. I've heard of various results converting .pdf, which is not officially supported but apparently kinda works.

that is really cool. where can you find the email address for your kindle?

ooh, yummy. I didnt know that.

Each Kindle also comes with an email address. You can forward your txt file to your Kindle email address and it will auto-magically appear.