Show HN: Serve your saved articles to a Kindle
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#2The kindle ecosystem is a disgrace when it comes to compatibility.
I have implemented a similar service (working from the WWW) that tracks your favourite RSS feeds and sends content to your kindle via their (terrible) sharing email address.
I find it sad that a company with Amazon's reach plays this dirty with what users are allowed to have on their devices. :(
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#3This is super interesting.
I've wanted to get an e-reader for a while now, but I'd really like to be able to read the articles I have saved in Wallabag[1] on it so I could go fully offline for a day or two a week. One potential solution I saw which is similar to this was wallabag-kindle-consumer[2] but both of this and your solution have issues that dissuade me from them. The first is that I think there's a lot of metadata that isn't encapsulated by both of these solutions. Tagging/highlighting are the first things that spring to mind. The second issue is both are very kindle-specific and I wonder if/how they'd work on a non-Amazon e-reader?
Take my comments with a grain of salt though - I haven't owned an e-reader in years so maybe the interface wouldn't even readily support tagging/highlighting the way I imagine it. I appreciate how simple your solution is and can readily see how it could be extended to support tags at least from the search interface and integrate with other services like Wallabag! Thanks for your work and if I do end up getting an e-reader you'll definitely be seeing some pull requests from me!
[1] https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag [2] https://github.com/janLo/wallabag-kindle-consumer
Re: Show HN: Serve your saved articles to a Kindle
#4The kindle ecosystem is a disgrace when it comes to compatibility. I have implemented a similar service (working from the WWW) that tracks your favourite RSS feeds and sends content to your kindle via their (terrible) sharing email address. I find it sad that a company with Amazon's reach plays this dirty with what users are allowed to have on their devices. :(
> I find it sad that a company with Amazon's reach plays this dirty with what users are allowed to have on their devices. :(
To be honest I'm always surprised how easy it is to put things on your Kindle even if they are not purchases from Amazon. I regularly purchase ebooks some other place and then just send it to the Kindle with Calibre's feature using the amazon sharing email address and it works without a problem for years.
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#5Tangential, there used to be a web service called Readlists which used to transform collection of articles into a kindle readable book and send it to the added kindle address. I found it very optimal to my needs due to its non technical nature and simplicity. That service shutdown a while back though. Is there any similar service?
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#6This is super interesting. I've wanted to get an e-reader for a while now, but I'd really like to be able to read the articles I have saved in Wallabag[1] on it so I could go fully offline for a day or two a week. One potential solution I saw which is similar to this was wallabag-kindle-consumer[2] but both of this and your solution have issues that dissuade me from them. The first is that I think there's a lot of me…
Tagging/highlighting cross my mind but I did want to keep this project as simple as possible. Tagging could be possible if I include a sqlite database but I don't think highlighting is possible in the Kindle web browser.
Outside of this project you can get tagging with TagSpaces[1] desktop app and highlighting with the SingleFile[2] web-extension.
>I wonder if/how they'd work on a non-Amazon e-reader?
If the e-reader have a web browser it would work without problems, maybe adjusting css properties a bit.
[1]https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces [2]https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
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#7The kindle ecosystem is a disgrace when it comes to compatibility. I have implemented a similar service (working from the WWW) that tracks your favourite RSS feeds and sends content to your kindle via their (terrible) sharing email address. I find it sad that a company with Amazon's reach plays this dirty with what users are allowed to have on their devices. :(
> I find it sad that a company with Amazon's reach plays this dirty with what users are allowed to have on their devices. :( To be honest I'm always surprised how easy it is to put things on your Kindle even if they are not purchases from Amazon. I regularly purchase ebooks some other place and then just send it to the Kindle with Calibre's feature using the amazon sharing email address and it works without a problem…
Yes. I was reluctant to buy a Kindle to read my already owned ebooks but using Calibre to sync to my Kindle it's really simple.
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#8I haven’t tried it, but one of the features Kobo push is native Pocket integration,[1] which might be useful to some people in this thread.
https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017763753-Use-the...
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#9The kindle ecosystem is a disgrace when it comes to compatibility. I have implemented a similar service (working from the WWW) that tracks your favourite RSS feeds and sends content to your kindle via their (terrible) sharing email address. I find it sad that a company with Amazon's reach plays this dirty with what users are allowed to have on their devices. :(
> I find it sad that a company with Amazon's reach plays this dirty with what users are allowed to have on their devices. :( To be honest I'm always surprised how easy it is to put things on your Kindle even if they are not purchases from Amazon. I regularly purchase ebooks some other place and then just send it to the Kindle with Calibre's feature using the amazon sharing email address and it works without a problem…
Yes, calibre is a powerful tool. However not all content can (or should) go via it.
My specific use case is something like the integration that Pocket has with Kobo ebook readers: I see an article I want to read on the internet, I add it to Pocket and then at my next sync I can read it on my device.
An email that Amazon controls is no replacement for a proper API. Having tools to convert to mobi is not a replacement for supporting open ebook formats.
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#10In the same vein, I discovered https://ktool.io/ recently - if anyone is interested in similar functionality but doesn't want to run the media server themselves.