How to read The New York Times on your Kindle in 2026

If you search for how to get The New York Times on a Kindle, most of what comes up describes a subscription that no longer exists. Amazon stopped selling the Kindle edition of the Times on 9 March 2023, and shut down Kindle Newsstand subscriptions altogether that September. There is no official way to have the paper delivered to a Kindle today.

That leaves a handful of workarounds. None is as tidy as the old edition, and the honest caveat up front is the paywall: a full Times article needs a Times subscription, and no tool that follows the rules gets around that.

Option 1: Calibre’s NYT news recipe

Calibre, the free desktop ebook manager, has a “Fetch news” feature with a built-in New York Times recipe. It can build either the Web Edition (recent articles by section) or Today’s Paper as an ebook, and Calibre can email it to your Kindle on a schedule. It’s the closest thing to the old edition.

The costs: a computer has to be on when the recipe runs, recipes break whenever the Times changes its site, and how much of each article comes through depends on what the site serves. Expect to fiddle.

Option 2: Send single articles from your browser

If you already subscribe to the Times, the lowest-effort option is to read the headlines on your phone or laptop and send the pieces you want to the Kindle. Amazon’s own Send to Kindle extension does this for free, as does Push to Kindle. Because you’re sending a page you’re logged in to, this is the most dependable way to get a full article. We compare those tools in RSS to Kindle vs Push to Kindle vs Instapaper.

Option 3: The NYT app on a Fire tablet

If the device you mean is a Fire tablet rather than a Kindle e-reader, the NYTimes app is in the Amazon Appstore and works with your normal Times subscription. It’s the real app, with the real paywall, and it won’t run on a Paperwhite or Oasis.

Option 4: The Times’ RSS feeds

The Times still publishes public RSS feeds for its home page and each section — World, Technology, Opinion, and so on — listed at nytimes.com/rss. A tool like RSS to Kindle can subscribe to those feeds and send new items to your Kindle each morning.

Be clear about what that gets you. The feeds themselves carry a headline, a one-sentence summary and a byline, not the article, and full stories sit behind the Times’ paywall. So a Times feed on a Kindle works as a morning briefing of what’s been published, not as a replacement for the paper.

What we’d actually suggest

If the Times specifically is what you want, subscribe to the Times and use Option 2 for the articles worth reading slowly. If what you really miss is a morning paper on the Kindle instead of a phone, a lot of excellent news and analysis is published free in full: public broadcasters, independent journalists on Substack, specialist blogs. Those are what RSS to Kindle is built for — browse the news feeds other readers send and you can have one on your Kindle tomorrow morning.