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Re: Reabble – RSS Reader for E-ink Amazon Kindle

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Post by Sephr »

fizgig wrote: post #10
burkaman wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kindle doesn't have apps. The only other option would be a service that automatically adds PDFs for you by emailing them to your kindle address.

e-ink Kindles do have (limited) apps. I have a weather app and can play chess, mahjong, and soduku on my 3rd gen e-ink Kindle at home.

This has been removed from the more recent Kindles, since the Kindle Voyage at least.

Re: Reabble – RSS Reader for E-ink Amazon Kindle

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Post by jmcphers »

burkaman wrote: post #7
Cenk wrote: post #5

Wait, so this is just a website, not an app?

Kindle doesn't have apps. The only other option would be a service that automatically adds PDFs for you by emailing them to your kindle address.

Instapaper actually does this. You can have it e-mail everything you've added to Instapaper to your Kindle as a kind of personally curated newspaper. It's not well publicized but is relatively easy to configure in your Instapaper account.

Re: Reabble – RSS Reader for E-ink Amazon Kindle

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Post by out_of_protocol »

fizgig wrote: post #10
burkaman wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kindle doesn't have apps. The only other option would be a service that automatically adds PDFs for you by emailing them to your kindle address.

e-ink Kindles do have (limited) apps. I have a weather app and can play chess, mahjong, and soduku on my 3rd gen e-ink Kindle at home.

Can confirm, java inside. Outdated, 1.4 or something like that last time i touched it.

Re: Reabble – RSS Reader for E-ink Amazon Kindle

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Post by bduerst »

dchuk wrote: post #2

$0.90/month? That's an odd price point. Is it tacked on to another subscription?

Yeah it seems odd to pay for what is essentially an RSS reader reskinned with custom CSS.

You think they would do better as an affiliate model for subscriptions (e.g. NYT gives 15 free articles per month to some readers), but maybe inoreader already does that.

Re: Reabble – RSS Reader for E-ink Amazon Kindle

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Post by rb808 »

There are a couple of e-ink readers that run Android eg Onyx BOOX, MIDIA, Icarus. However they're all tiny vendors, often no play store by default, and old versions of android.

I'd love a good quality eink tablet that runs recent stock versions of Android with play store. Ideally I wouldn't have to jailbreak. Surely there is a big market for this - there are hundreds of color screen tablets like - surely a few eink ones are possible? Any suggestions?

Re: Reabble – RSS Reader for E-ink Amazon Kindle

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Post by rcarmo »

graffitici wrote: post #15

I wish somebody did a similar service for Pocket. I guess having a native client for reading files will never happen (been waiting for years..!). But I could also use an interface for reading articles while I'm online..

I use p2k.co, which works ok enough for me in the free tier that I haven't bothered implementing my own...

Re: Reabble – RSS Reader for E-ink Amazon Kindle

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Post by bduerst »

jmcphers wrote: post #13
burkaman wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kindle doesn't have apps. The only other option would be a service that automatically adds PDFs for you by emailing them to your kindle address.

Instapaper actually does this. You can have it e-mail everything you've added to Instapaper to your Kindle as a kind of personally curated newspaper. It's not well publicized but is relatively easy to configure in your Instapaper account.

Wouldn't you be able to do this with the daily email digest on IFTTT too?
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