Show HN: Serve your saved articles to a Kindle(github.com) |
Show HN: Serve your saved articles to a Kindle(github.com) |
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. :(
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.
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.
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
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
While KTool is still in active development, feel free to give it a try (no account needed). Much appreciated
The Send to Kindle browser extension is great but it's not really usable on mobile.
With Matter I can add something to my queue while browsing on mobile and from Matter send it to my Kindle already parsed and ready to read.
I use it as a (n effectively) free browser plugin, and also paid for the iPhone app, because it's super-useful to have available there, and also to support the creator - this was something I'd wanted to write for myself and was very glad to not have to.
https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017763753-Use-the...
It's much better than the kindle option where sending the content over email feels like a twenty years step back.
Account closure was due to different reason. Few months back I ordered a phone from Amazon India, but they delivered a perfume. When complained to CS, they closed my account with a vague reason reason that I violated ToS by using a duplicate account. This account closure after I had this account for more than 10 years and have used it in Amazon.com and Amazon.in. Earlier this month, I have a filed a consumer court case (similar to small claims in US) in India.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tumblr&ref...
Which is the Tumblr app! What the hell?
EDIT: ok, figured it out. After signing up on the website, I'm given a page which has a single item called Getting Started. Nothing else, no menu, no header, no footer. So I clicked the link and it brings me to the Getting Started page on blog.instapaper.com
I now realize this is actually hosted on Tumblr so the Get the App button there is from Tumblr.
Not a great onboarding experience so far. Hopefully the rest of the app is better.
I do have some sympathy though because I've implemented email auth before and it's not simple!
I'd rather not give out details here. You could add a mailing list maybe?
Kobo compares favorably to Kindle. Really they just lack something like "Send to Kindle" but they make up for it with other things. Some models support Dropbox syncing, they support getting books from the library via. Overdrive right on the device and they have a lot more customization with regards to what you can do with fonts, spacing etc. out of the box. And you can even get pen input for note taking on the bigger ones if you want.
I'd just pick the model that most appeals to you with exception of the base model. I think the extra $30 to get a 300PPI screen is worth it.
I can't compare directly with Kindle, as the last one I used was a couple of years ago.
But the features that directly appealed to me are stylus support for two of the latest models: Elipsa and Sage.
It has support for Overdrive as far as I know (though not in all countries). It has support for dropbox. It supports more formats, which makes it a favourite for sideloaded manga/comics reading.
It's easy to root and run your own code on it, there's a pretty healthy community of modders out there. Under the hood is just a linux machine.
Additionally, the larger form factor is really nice, as my eyes start to age.
But that said they've surprised me. As a niche Android device from a Chinese company I expected absolutely 0 updates but my Nova 2 has gotten several with some significant improvements like the ability to split screen apps, layers in the note taking app and more. I've had Android phones from big manufacturers with worse support.