How to send NYT articles to the Kindle (May 2026)

The New York Times is one of the most read publications in the world, and one of the ones that fails most in traditional send-to-Kindle services. Here is what works today, in May 2026.

Why the NYT is hard

Three technical reasons:

1. Aggressive paywall. Subscribers read normally. Non-subscribers hit the paywall after 1 to 3 articles per month. Send-to-Kindle servers make anonymous requests and get the paywall, even when you are a subscriber. Their session is not yours.

2. Custom layout. The NYT uses non-trivial HTML structure: custom grids, inline scripts for interactive widgets, editorial pull quotes with dense formatting. Generic Readability extraction does not always nail the sequence.

3. Multimedia content. Many articles embed videos as central narrative elements. Send-to-Kindle services lose the sequence when the video drops out.

Method 1: forwarding NYT emails

If you subscribe to the NYT, they send "Daily Briefing" and other editions by email. You can forward to your Kindle address (ending in @kindle.com).

Works for: daily summaries, headlines, newsletters.

Fails for: specific articles, opinion pieces, long analysis that does not fit into the digest.

Method 2: Amazon's Send to Kindle

You install Amazon's browser extension (Chrome or Firefox). Logged into the NYT, open the article, click "Send to Kindle."

Works for: some short articles. Typography stays Amazon default.

Fails for: long articles (Amazon truncates), analysis with widgets, opinion pieces with images. No clear failure feedback.

Method 3: Folio

Install the Folio extension (Chrome or any Chromium-based browser) or use the bookmarklet. Logged into the NYT, open the article, click "Send." In 30 to 60 seconds it lands on the Kindle as an editorial e-book.

Works for: any NYT article you can read in your browser. Capture runs in your session, so the paywall is preserved.

Limited for: articles with embedded video (they lose the sequence). The best use is text articles: opinion, analysis, essays, long-form investigative pieces.

Bonus: daily NYT edition

On the Pro plan, you can configure daily or weekly editions. Every morning at 7am (or the time you pick), we combine the articles tagged the previous day into a single e-book with index and section dividers matching the paper's structure. You open the Kindle over breakfast and have 30 to 40 minutes of curated reading.

NYT subscribers typically batch 5 to 7 articles per day, building a personal "Sunday Times" by Friday morning.

How to set up

1. Create a free account at folio.today.
2. Configure your Kindle address (steps visible in onboarding).
3. Install the Chrome extension or use the bookmarklet.
4. Browse the NYT, open the article, click "Send to Folio."