Movie Trailers To Kindle Fire Part 1

If you like watching movie trailers like I do, then this how-to maybe for you.  I use Apple's movie trailer website to find all the upcoming movies I may want to watch later on demand at home.  In the past, I would copy and paste each title into a text document, then save the document for later reference.  Now, thanks to some very smart programmers somewhere in the world, this task has become automated.  I have two solutions, one simple, one complicated and maybe unnecessary, but still fun to create.  

My first solution has 2 steps and requires one web service to bring it all together.   There are many ways to do this, this is just one way I found useful for me.  Hopefully you can use it as well.  To make this work you will need an Instapaper account, and of course a Kindle Fire.  

Here are the steps:

1. Log into your Instapaper account.
2. Add the Read It Later button to your favorite web browser website.
3. Find the movie trailer site you like and select the movies you want.   I use iTunes @ http://trailers.apple.com
4. Go back to Instapaper, click on account, then Manage My Kindle Settings.  Follow all the instructions.
5. Your Unread movie list will appear on your Kindle Fire in the carousel and in the Docs section.  

In the next post, I will go into the more complicated way to do this task and explain the manual way to download a .mobi file for Kindle from Instapaper.  And while you are tinkering with Instapaper settings, donate a few bucks to this great service.  

Until next time, Manage Your Digital World.