Getting started
A two-minute setup, then a lifetime of one-tap deliveries. Here's the lay of the land.
Get an account
The Kieffer Library is invite-only. Bennett creates accounts directly on the Calibre server — reach out to him if you don't have one yet.
Once your account exists, the library lives at calibre.kieffer.app.
Hook up your Kindle
To send books to your Kindle, change a few settings in your Amazon account first.
- 1Open your Amazon content & delivery settings.
- 2Scroll to the bottom and open Personal Document Settings.
- 3Under Approved Personal Document E-mail List, add
bennett.kieffer@gmail.comas a trusted sender. Without this, Amazon silently drops our deliveries. - 4Under Send-to-Kindle E-Mail Settings, copy the Amazon-assigned address for the Kindle you want books on (it looks like
yourname_xxxx@kindle.com). You'll paste this into your Calibre profile in a moment. - 5Decide on Personal Document Archiving. Enabled means every book lands in your Amazon library and syncs to every Kindle on the account — handy if it's your account, less so if you share with family.
Send a book to your Kindle
Once your Kindle email is on file in your Calibre profile, deploying is a single click: search a book, open it, and tap the paper-plane in the top-right of the detail page. Calibre emails the file to your Kindle and Amazon takes it from there.
Your Calibre profile
Log in with your email and the password Bennett set for you. Forgot it? Reset from the login page — Calibre will email a temporary password.
After signing in, open your profile and set your Send-to-Kindle email to the …@kindle.com address you copied in step 4 of the Kindle setup. That single setting is what makes the paper-plane button work.