Productivity · Tabnews · 🇧🇷 Brazil
Sending AI summaries and research straight to your Kindle
A developer built a Go MCP in minutes that lets Claude or Codex send texts to a Kindle.
- Profession
- Developer, Reader
- Source
- tabnews.com.br ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- July 30, 2026
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
He created an MCP server that uses SMTP and Amazon's "Send to Kindle".
How it went
The account gives no numbers.
Good to know
Keep the SMTP password in an environment variable, never in the prompt.
The prompt
Research [topic] and write a 1,500-word reading summary with sections and references. Format it for reading on an e-reader.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
Summary in our own words. Results as stated in the original account; we have not tested or audited them. Read the source ↗ Found a mistake?
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