Amazon’s wireless Whispernet technology combines its optimized technology with Sprint’s national high-speed (EVDO) data network. This combination enables users to wirelessly search, discover, download, and read content on the go.

With the wireless Whispernet technology, you can be anywhere in Sprint’s high-speed (EVDO) data network coverage area, think of a book from the available content sites, and get it in less than a minute. Your content comes to you automatically, wherever you are in the Sprint’s coverage area. Newspaper subscriptions are delivered wirelessly every morning and many magazines arrive before they hit newsstands.

If, however, you are outside the wireless Whispernet coverage area, Kindle features using wireless connectivity will not function. Such features are subject to Sprint network service outages.

If you can access an ebook that does not have DRM (digital rights management) restriction, you can practically view it on Kindle. Except for a few cases, you will first have to download it to your computer, do the conversion, and then transfer it to Kindle via USB cable.

Here are a number of content sources that are actually out there.

Amazon.com – Over 90,000 titles, including books, magazines, Newspaper, and blogs available for instant wireless download if you are in one of the wireless “hot spots” or Computer/USB cable download if you are not.

Many Books – Approximately 19,216 free ebooks for your PDA, iPod, and ebook reader including Kindle…already in Kindle readable format.

Mnybks – This is an actual extension of Manybooks.net above (over 19,000 books). All you have to do is use the web browser on your Kindle to access the site, then download books directly to your Kindle, the same way you would any download any Amazon book:

*Enter the url http://mnybks.net in the basic web-browser.
* Search for and enter a Book ID that you want.
* Choose the Mobipocket version of the book – NO OTHER VERSION WILL WORK.
* From the pop-up screen that appears, provide confirmation info and book will appear in your home screen in a few seconds – IF YOU ARE IN WIRELESS “hot spot.”
* Use the computer/USB cable combination, if you are not in a wireless “hot spot.”

MobiPocket – numerous titles, some of which you can also find on Amazon.com for less. Use mobipocket reader to convert and then download to Kindle.

Christian Classic Ethereal Library -A collection of Christian books in pdf, word, and text formats all ready for conversion, if necessary, and transfer to your Kindle.

Books-on-line – Over 50,000 books available for immediate downloading at no charge.

Guttenberg – Over 20,000 titles free of copyright. Come in multiple languages.

Munseys – Over 20,000 free titles available in HTML, Adobe PDF, MobiPocket, Microsoft Reader, Sony Reader and beta among others.

That’s it for now. As we find more content sources we will add them. Leave a comment if you find this helpful. Thanks and Happy Holidays.

Do you have personal documents in HTML, MS Word Docs, Text, or Adobe PDF format that you would love to be able to read on your kindle? If you do, just follow the steps below to convert them to a Kindle readable format and you should be set. Oh…and by the way, if you find these tips helpful, please leave a comment for the benefit of others, thanks.

Here we go.

Conversion For a Small Fee At Amazon
Email your personal document to YourKindleName@kindle.com. Once it is received, your document will be converted and downloaded wirelessly into your Kindle for a small fee of about 8 – 10 cents. If you email your document to this address, it will be assumed that you are willing to pay the fee which will be charged to your Kindle account.

Conversion For Free At Amazon
For free conversion, simple email the document to YourKindleName@free.kindle.com. Once the document is received, it will be converted but this time a link to the converted document will be sent to your registered email address. Just log into your email from any computer and download the converted document to your Kindle using the Computer/USB cable combination (see recent article on how to download transfer document between Computer and Kindle). This is a little bit more time consuming and requires a little more work, but after all, you are getting the conversion done for free.

Converting Without Amazon Involvement
Download the FREE MobiPocket Creator to your computer. Use it to convert your personal documents to Mobi( .PRC) format files – one of the file formats that Kindle recognizes. Use the Computer/USB cable combination to transfer the converted files to your Kindle for immediate readability and you are done. Recall that Kindle’s ability to recognize PDF is in an experimental phase? Well, this a great way around it.