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Reabble – RSS Reader for E-ink Amazon Kindle
- dchuk 10y ago$0.90/month? That's an odd price point. Is it tacked on to another subscription?
- ents 10y agoInoreader is free too, with upgrades you can pay for. Looks like this only works with Inoreader.
- dchuk 10y agoWhat I mean, is that $0.90/month is not a price point that works well with a credit card processing fee. Unless it's billed yearly or something.
- dogma1138 10y agoIf you deal with a lot of small transactions you get a special agreement with your payment processor which basically removes the flat transaction fees.
- bduerst 10y agoYeah 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.
- tedmiston 10y agoI wonder if it's an algorithmic price based on # of users like what Pinboard used to have.
- Cenk 10y agoWow, the icon sure looks like Instapaper’s
- tedmiston 10y agoAt least they didn't use lowercase. “Lowercase letters?” Erlich says, “Every fucking company in the Valley has lowercase letters. Why? Because it’s safe. But we aren’t going to do that.”
- Cenk 10y agoWait, so this is just a website, not an app?
- burkaman 10y agoKindle 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.
- fizgig 10y agoe-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.
- Sephr 10y agoThis has been removed from the more recent Kindles, since the Kindle Voyage at least.
- out_of_protocol 10y agoCan confirm, java inside. Outdated, 1.4 or something like that last time i touched it.
- jmcphers 10y agoInstapaper 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.
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- musicalbacteria 10y agoHas anybody checked out http://www.readonkindle.com http://www.readonkindle.com? They send out daily ebook rather than having you visit the site on kindle browser. I find the kindle browser to be extremely slow and hard on the eyes when you scroll. The font size can't be adjusted and the whole experience is bad. Reabble is a great idea but i really want kindle browser to get better before we can build real kindle web apps!
- graffitici 10y agoI 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..
- rcarmo 10y agoI use p2k.co, which works ok enough for me in the free tier that I haven't bothered implementing my own...
- Analemma_ 10y agoI wonder if Pinboard - the regular website - would work for this. I've never tried it, but since it's such a plain no-frills HTML page, there's a change it would look good on a Kindle. (And probably have good perf too - no oodles of JavaScript to execute)
- tedmiston 10y agoInstapaper for Kindle might be better. https://www.instapaper.com/apps https://www.instapaper.com/apps https://david-smith.org/blog/2012/10/11/instapaper-on-the-kindle-paperwhite/ https://david-smith.org/blog/2012/10/11/instapaper-on-the-ki...
- rb808 10y agoThere 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?
- brokenmachine 10y agoThe kobo readers run linux and seem to be pretty hackable. You can put Android on them (I only saw Android v2.3 with a quick google though, not sure if they'll run something more recent). I bought a Kobo Glo (which I'm very happy with, incidentally), intending to hack in a hardware page-turn key (or even a cordless wifi one using an ESP8266 if possible), but I could never work out how I would be able to do it. The ebook reader companies, like most corporations, want the consumer to be locked into their ecosystem. I assume some of the cost of the reader is offset by the profit from ebook sales. So it would be against their business model to sell one where you could just easily install any software you want.
- abawany 10y agoI currently use a Kobo Aura HD (same display as the Onyx Lynx T68 but no Android). Replaced the Kobo firmware with Kobo Start Menu and KOReader [1] and I now have about as perfect of a barebones reader that I have been able to find in my quest so far. I was very unhappy with the stock Kobo firmware: the scanning on startup to build a sql-lite DB of my books was insane when there are 15+ GB of books to scan. The alternative firmware provides a file manager and an excellent e-reader application and that's all I have ever wanted in a basic e-reader. I have yet to see an "indexing" solution work well and I dread seeing them in action now given how absolute time sinks they have been for me over the years. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/3h83ls/how_much_does_the_kobo_glo_hd_phone_home_any/ https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/3h83ls/how_much_does_...
- brokenmachine 10y ago
- mrmondo 10y agoYou can do this very well without paying anything though? I just have my rss subscription email my kindle email and it worked perfectly?
- brokenmachine 10y agoI wish RSS was more popular. It is so useful. I think the general public doesn't think they have a need for it. I still lament the loss of Google Reader, and haven't found a replacement that I'm happy with yet.
- electricEmu 10y agoWhat if, there was a repo that contained tons of scrapers similar to Homebrew. Each scraper makes an ATOM feed for sites without one. Anyone can run their own feed repository on their own server. Community contributions help keep scrapers up-to-date.
- brokenmachine 10y agoWhat's Homebrew?
- redorb 10y agoThe good old reader is a copy of an earlier Google reader - I've settled on it for my replacement
- ubercow 10y agoI like https://feedbin.com/ https://feedbin.com/ for all my RSS. That coupled with "Reeder" on iOS and OS X is how I consume most of my news feeds. Feedbin costs money but I personally think it's fine to toss a little cash at a service like this to make sure it stays working.
- rb808 10y agodigg reader is good, simple and reliable if not as pretty as google. Take a look if you haven't already.
- electricEmu 10y agoThe problem is, there's not as many feeds around these days.