It came. Huzzah! But even more importantly, I managed via resurrecting an old laptop to gain access to the CD, transfer it to a flash USB and get it on my computer so I can read it at my leisure (see below, an inconspicuous looking package but it literally contains a whole universe of ideas, or even multiple [infinite worlds] universes):
"Calling Free Trader Beowulf, hold one we are coming ..." but I don't know whether that is good or bad news.
No App needed Geordie.. make sure your Kindle knows to accept emails from your email id, and just send the PDF's as attachments on a mail to your Kindle's email address.. it also works for RTF, or Word DOC or a number of other formats.. more here... https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/email