Subscribing to RSS Feeds on your E-Reader

Subscribing to RSS Feeds on your E-Reader(wpfriends.at)

23 points by akirk 4 years ago | 9 comments

akirk 4 years ago |

The title of the submission originally continued: "using your own WordPress blog." This is kind of important, since one of the goals of the plugin is to reduce dependency on third parties.

The dependency on external feeds remains of course but you have control over your own blog, where you host it and what software you install there.

While one of the main goals of the plugin is to provide an infrastructure to connect to your friends' blogs and potentially exchange private posts with them, an important aspect is that it is a versatile RSS Reader (see https://wpfriends.at/consume-the-web-your-way/) that can be used with another plugin (like demo-ed) to then send new articles to your E-Reader (converted to .mobi or .epub).

krono 4 years ago |

Alternatively you could use some automation platform (e.g. IFTTT, Zappier) to sync an RSS account with a natively supported Pocket account.

Seems rather trivial to accomplish in whichever way you want:

    https://zapier.com/apps/feedly/integrations/pocket 
    https://ifttt.com/applets/QfKPm8rx
    https://pipedream.com/apps/feedbin/integrations/pocket

AdmiralAsshat 4 years ago |

The article is very careful to say "E-Reader" every time like this is a generic solution, but the whole workflow depends on sending the articles to an email address associated with your e-reader, which is only natively supported on the Kindle. You can't do this natively on a Kobo, Nook, etc.

I do wish the article would be more upfront about that.

akirk 4 years ago | |

> You can't do this natively on a Kobo, Nook, etc.

That's correct but there are other e-readers that support a similar technology, such as Pocketbook, or the Arta Tech Inkbooks.

While not supported by the plugin (yet), many readers support syncing new content via services like Dropbox, therefore you could use a service that uploads file via e-mail to Dropbox.

Overall the workflow part of converting an RSS feed item to an E-Reader format (i.e. ePub or Mobi) is covered, it seems viable to add more delivery mechanisms. Due to the market I am in (Europe) I've investigated the possibility to deliver to the Tolino platform via libraries like https://github.com/hzulla/tolino-python, but also adding Dropbox might be a possibility.

ajot 4 years ago |

KOReader has a built-in RSS/Atom reader.

https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/News-downloader

Koiwai 4 years ago |

I don't think that's practical, reading RSS feeds usually involves clicking links a lot, on e-ink devices that experience is awful.

falcolas 4 years ago |

FWIW, if the WordPress or email address requirements for this turn you away from it, the Calibre OSS ebook management software supports pushing RSS feeds on your ebook reader as well.

akirk 4 years ago | |

Indeed! Although the beauty when using a reader that supports this is continous individual delivery of new posts to your e-reader.

falcolas 4 years ago | | |

Since Calibre also supports delivery via email, it can do the same. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to downplay what was built here, I just want to point out an alternative for those who can't/won't use it.