This looks almost as cool as what we were promised in the late 90s on Discovery Channel's "Beyond 2000." Except that instead of a small hard handheld device, it was something flexible, and more the size of an actual newspaper.
I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
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Re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
#102Re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
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How? Seems like just a fork without PG won’t won’t fix buggy feeds. I already have Postgres running on my server so the DB isn’t a selling point for me.
Mine expands truncated feeds.
Miniflux also does that, you just have to enable it by feed or by default.
> Fetches the original article and extracts only the relevant content using a local Readability parser.
Re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
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An Android eink device would solve this problem. I'd like recommendations.
Boox is fantastic. I have the Palma and it's been very enjoyable, since it's pocketable and has excellent power management, so despite being android, the battery can last 1-2 weeks.
Boox devices are nice, and the stock e-book reader is actually quite good.
The firm's support is decidedly sub-par, however, should you encounter issues. I'd advise not splurging on their higher-end (larger) devices on the potential lost investment. Though a 13" screen is quite delish for reading technical articles.
There's also the GPL compliance question.
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It's a neat idea. I think it needs some feedback wheb you click to choose. I asked for an article in mobi as a test, and it was 30 seconds for it to give it to me. I thought it was borked. Maybe a "queuing" or something? It let me do other things until it was ready, like download the epub.
Were you logged in or not? If you were not logged in, then the conversation happens on the Kindle itself so yeah it's gonna be slow. If you were logged in and the "backend mode" was enabled, then the delay will most likely be fetching the article images, compressing them and converting them to jpeg on the backend, but there's a setting to choose if you want to embed images or not.
I wasn't logged in, and it was just my Android phone. I was testing.
I know what the delay was for, I mentioned it in my original reply. My point is, there's no visual indicator of what's happening. You click the button, and you don't know if the button's been clicked. The person wonders, "Did I miss?" So I, as anyone would, clicked again after a moment. And again. Still no indication.
I then moved on, looked at other options, clicked the epub, downloaded that, then the mobi option popped up.
Again, it looks neat. I'm just saying "put some feedback to indicate the button press worked", especially if it's an op which can take some time. It's standard UI stuff.
Good luck BTW, seems like a nice project.
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Were you logged in or not? If you were not logged in, then the conversation happens on the Kindle itself so yeah it's gonna be slow. If you were logged in and the "backend mode" was enabled, then the delay will most likely be fetching the article images, compressing them and converting them to jpeg on the backend, but there's a setting to choose if you want to embed images or not.
I wasn't logged in, and it was just my Android phone. I was testing. I know what the delay was for, I mentioned it in my original reply. My point is, there's no visual indicator of what's happening. You click the button, and you don't know if the button's been clicked. The person wonders, "Did I miss?" So I, as anyone would, clicked again after a moment. And again. Still no indication. I then moved on, looked at othe…
It usually takes less time than that with backend mode on, but yeah you're right I should put some kind of an indicator for it.
Thanks for the feedback and the compliment!
Re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
#107Perhaps this is sufficient reason to connect my KOreader to the internet for the first time...
The only thing attracting me to KOReader for my PocketBook is OPDS. The few presentations I've seen show a UI so bloated (as in, the main view for reading pages crammed full of widgets on the bottom of the screen to display wifi signal, battery percentages, and progression counters) that it makes me wonder why some people use an ereader at all. If my PocketBook had OPDS out of the box it would be the perfect device.…
I jailbroke my kindle and this was what the guide I followed installed. I don't know what else is available!
My experience has been "fine" - I don't use anything fancy like dictionary lookup or OCR, I just put epubs/pdfs on it and browse. I find the menu UI pretty good, it's a little unintuitive but there is a short guide that covers everything I need. There is no easy way to browse your library (there is a file browser but I don't like that). Ditto I don't find browsing through a book particularly intuitive, but it has page seeking and you can scroll through pages.
For casual reading, I think it's just fine.