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FiveFilters: Send web articles to Kindle

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Re: FiveFilters: Send web articles to Kindle

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Post by tluyben2 »

I am totally hooked on Pocket; with Calibre it is great to have big 'books' with articles I put away for a rainy day.

This seems similar but more direct. I haven't checked it out yet but I did try other services and Pocket won because it would upload 50 articles in 1 'book' instead of 50 articles separated.

Re: FiveFilters: Send web articles to Kindle

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Post by hultner »

tluyben2 wrote: post #2

I am totally hooked on Pocket; with Calibre it is great to have big 'books' with articles I put away for a rainy day. This seems similar but more direct. I haven't checked it out yet but I did try other services and Pocket won because it would upload 50 articles in 1 'book' instead of 50 articles separated.

I also use pocket and it syncs automatically over wifi with my Kobo e-reader so whenever I go somewhere I've got my articles there on the reader. Rather neat actually and this is built in as a pleasant surprise.

Re: FiveFilters: Send web articles to Kindle

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Post by Pelerin »

I created a (admittedly much worse) Chrome extension to do this, but I also added the ability to concatenate several articles together, and send them as a single file.

The reason being, when I pick up my kindle, it's usually to read for an extended period of time, so I am prepared to go through the length of several articles. Also, my menu won't end up so cluttered with all the articles I sent.

If that's on the product roadmap for this, it would be wonderful.

Re: FiveFilters: Send web articles to Kindle

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Post by dps »

tluyben2 wrote: post #2

I am totally hooked on Pocket; with Calibre it is great to have big 'books' with articles I put away for a rainy day. This seems similar but more direct. I haven't checked it out yet but I did try other services and Pocket won because it would upload 50 articles in 1 'book' instead of 50 articles separated.

If you already use pocket, then Pocket 2 Kindle https://p2k.co/manage/home is a good service to send stuff from your reading list, nicely formatted to your Kindle.

I wrote something similar (taking lists of URLs) a couple of years ago and it's still live at www.kindlized.com but when think about the next step of grabbing my Pocket article list I found Pocket 2 Kindle and never bothered to update my own - kind of fun and sad at the same time to discover that someone has already built the thing you just thought of :-)

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