How to Send Newsletters to Your Kindle (Free, Step by Step)
A complete walkthrough for reading email newsletters on your Kindle: authorize a sender, forward your newsletters, and automate everything with Gmail filters — for free.
Newsletters are some of the best writing on the internet, and the inbox is one of the worst places to read them. Between notification badges, promotional email, and the reply-all thread from work, a 4,000-word essay never gets the attention it deserves. The fix is simple: move your newsletters to your Kindle, where there is nothing to do but read.
This guide walks through the whole setup with Readry, which converts newsletters into clean ebooks and delivers them to your Kindle for free. The one-time setup takes about five minutes.
What you need
- A Kindle, or any device with the Kindle app installed
- The email account where your newsletters arrive
- A free Readry account
Step 1: Get your personal Readry address
Sign up at Readry with your email — no password, no credit card. You receive a personal @readry.com address. Anything sent to that address gets converted into an ebook and delivered to your Kindle.
Step 2: Authorize Readry with Amazon
Amazon only accepts personal documents from senders you approve. This is a one-time step:
- Open Amazon’s Content and Devices page and go to Preferences.
- Find Personal Document Settings.
- Under Approved Personal Document E-mail List, add
[email protected]. - While you are there, note your Kindle’s own email address (it ends in
@kindle.com) and paste it into your Readry settings.
Stuck? The Kindle authorization guide has screenshots for every click.
Step 3: Forward a newsletter
Open any newsletter in your inbox and forward it to your Readry address. A few minutes later it appears in your Kindle library as a proper ebook — with a table of contents, chapters, and readable typography instead of email formatting. Links become QR codes you can scan with your phone, so following a reference never means squinting at an e-ink browser.
Step 4 (recommended): Automate it with a Gmail filter
Forwarding by hand works, but the magic is automation. Gmail can forward matching emails automatically:
- Add your Readry address as a forwarding address in Gmail’s settings.
- Create a filter that matches your newsletters — for example, all mail from
substack.com— and choose Forward it to your Readry address.
From then on, every issue lands on your Kindle without you touching anything. The Gmail forwarding guide covers the exact steps with screenshots, including how to verify the forwarding address.
Does this work with any newsletter?
Yes. Readry does not keep an allowlist of publications — if it arrives as an email, it can be forwarded. Substack, Ghost, Medium digests, Mailchimp campaigns, Beehiiv, company-internal digests, even that weekly email from your boss. If you can receive it, your Kindle can too.
What about non-Kindle e-readers?
If you read on a Kobo or reMarkable, the Kindle app is not an option, but Google Drive is. Readry Premium saves your converted ebooks into a Drive folder your device can sync. See the device guides for Kobo and reMarkable.
How much does it cost?
Newsletter-to-Kindle delivery is free and unlimited — that is the core of Readry and it stays free. Premium ($4.99/month) adds curated news sources like BBC and NPR, Google Drive delivery, and custom schedules.
Ready to move your reading somewhere calmer? Create your free account and forward your first newsletter tonight.