Customers can email spreadsheets, PDFs, Word docs and other documents directly to their Kindle Fire, or upload documents from their PC or Mac using Amazon Cloud Drive.

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Growing use of cloud services like Google docs lets people share documents electronically without ever printing them out.

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We share our documents, spreadsheets and data with them using hosted services like Google Docs, Office 365 and DropBox.

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Both Microsoft's Office and OpenOffice.org nicely complement Google's free Google Docs service, which offers a convenient, and free, way to edit and share documents online.

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Google Docs has just added a couple of cool new features: translation and the ability to remove smartquotes in documents (coming soon).

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At the risk of seeming Google-centric, I have to point out that it's even possible to manage basic documents and spreadsheets online -- once proprietary to bloated Microsoft Office products -- for free with Google Docs.

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