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I was disappointed for a second reason: I thought about Web for the Kindle, rather than Kindle for the Web. I really like reading books and research paper pdfs

by jorleif 16y ago

I was disappointed for a second reason: I thought about Web for the Kindle, rather than Kindle for the Web. I really like reading books and research paper pdfs on the Kindle, but delivery of non-Amazon content is a bit of a hassle. Not very much, but still emailing to the Kindle is some extra effort. It would be great if there was some selection of web content, e.g. Hacker News frontpage articles, or my RSS feeds that would be converted to the native Kindle format and then delivered like a newspaper daily or twice daily. Not being able to follow links would be annoying, but still the idea is nice. Maybe I have to hack something like that together and try it...

raffij 16y ago
http://www.kindlefeeder.com/ http://www.kindlefeeder.com/ allows you to do most of what you are looking for. Also for mobi files such as the instapaper one it would be nice to be able to make ajax calls to set articles to read when you clicked a link at the end of the article.
- kroger 16y ago
  Have you actually tried to use kindlefeeder? It's a good service when the RSS feed has the full text, otherwise it just doesn't work (it's no good to read hacker news, for instance, as the feed doesn't have the full text)
- jorleif 16y ago
  Thanks, that's very close to what I was looking for.
ojbyrne 16y ago
The latest kindle has a web browser.
- jorleif 16y ago
  I hadn't actually noticed that, thanks. I tried it quickly and it seems that web pages are not so easy to read with it. Simply too much stuff around the actual content for the small screen. RSS feeds might be better as there is only text.
dfj225 16y ago
Also look into Instapaper. I've known about it for some time but never really used it until I bought a Kindle 3. Instapaper supports periodically automatically pushing content to your Kindle (using the Kindle email address, so it costs $0.15). However, if you use the Kindle web browser you can load Instapaper and download a Kindle version of your articles for free. For now, this is what I'm doing (mostly because it is more "on demand" than having content pushed at some interval).

by jorleif 16y ago

raffij 16y ago

http://www.kindlefeeder.com/ http://www.kindlefeeder.com/ allows you to do most of what you are looking for. Also for mobi files such as the instapaper one it would be nice to be able to make ajax calls to set articles to read when you clicked a link at the end of the article.

kroger 16y ago
Have you actually tried to use kindlefeeder? It's a good service when the RSS feed has the full text, otherwise it just doesn't work (it's no good to read hacker news, for instance, as the feed doesn't have the full text)
jorleif 16y ago
Thanks, that's very close to what I was looking for.

ojbyrne 16y ago

The latest kindle has a web browser.

jorleif 16y ago
I hadn't actually noticed that, thanks. I tried it quickly and it seems that web pages are not so easy to read with it. Simply too much stuff around the actual content for the small screen. RSS feeds might be better as there is only text.

dfj225 16y ago

Also look into Instapaper. I've known about it for some time but never really used it until I bought a Kindle 3. Instapaper supports periodically automatically pushing content to your Kindle (using the Kindle email address, so it costs $0.15). However, if you use the Kindle web browser you can load Instapaper and download a Kindle version of your articles for free. For now, this is what I'm doing (mostly because it is more "on demand" than having content pushed at some interval).