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I think RSS are the wrong starting point for such a task. They may syndicate limited content, may contain ads, etc. So I guess you want to collate the posts rat

I think RSS are the wrong starting point for such a task. They may syndicate limited content, may contain ads, etc. So I guess you want to collate the posts rather than the feed entries themselves. Personally, I "solved" a similar issue of mine (collecting posts I want to read in a weekly EPUB and send them on my Kindle) with Pocket and a web service called Crofflr. (Notice Crofflr seems to be under no active dedelopment, but in my experience it just works). I guess Instapaper offers a similar service, but I never tried it. You can automate the RSS-to-Pocket (or other read-it-later service) part with tools such as If This Then That. Hope this helps.

r618 7y ago
Would you be OK with let's say last week articles ordered chronologically, with e.g. one article per page with whatever content single RSS post contained (some sites publish only summaries even in article body) I made iOS RSS reader mainly for offline usage (everything ever seen/downloaded is stored on the device accessible later, stripped of Javascript with uniform formatting etc etc) some time ago - this might be a good feature to revive it a bit [alongside macOS version, which, admittedly, does not exist (yet:)]
masklinn 7y ago
> I think RSS are the wrong starting point for such a task. They may syndicate limited content, may contain ads, etc. So I guess you want to collate the posts rather than the feed entries themselves. Certainly. > Personally, I "solved" a similar issue of mine (collecting posts I want to read in a weekly EPUB and send them on my Kindle) with Pocket and a web service called Crofflr. Interesting. That is sort of the things I've considered, however each serial's feed really is a single work being updated (mostly append-only I guess, I don't know how many serials authors go back and significantly rework previous entries) and I don't know how well epubs and their clients deal with updates / additions (without intermediate proprietary storefronts). I really need to knuckle down and play with epub, seeing how googling around doesn't seem to yield anything useful. > You can automate the RSS-to-Pocket (or other read-it-later service) part with tools such as If This Then That. "RSS to pocket" isn't really the issue, going through my RSS feed, reading the regular entries and sending the serials to pocket isn't much of a drain / difficulty. The issue is mostly that serial entries can accumulate rather fast in pocket (especially for those with small frequent entries e.g. one of the defunct serials I used to follow would publish a page per day), and so pocket is a mess of interspersed normal articles to read later and chapters from dozens of serials. Because of that I regularly find out I've skipped chapters.

r618 7y ago

Would you be OK with let's say last week articles ordered chronologically, with e.g. one article per page with whatever content single RSS post contained (some sites publish only summaries even in article body) I made iOS RSS reader mainly for offline usage (everything ever seen/downloaded is stored on the device accessible later, stripped of Javascript with uniform formatting etc etc) some time ago - this might be a good feature to revive it a bit [alongside macOS version, which, admittedly, does not exist (yet:)]

masklinn 7y ago

> I think RSS are the wrong starting point for such a task. They may syndicate limited content, may contain ads, etc. So I guess you want to collate the posts rather than the feed entries themselves. Certainly. > Personally, I "solved" a similar issue of mine (collecting posts I want to read in a weekly EPUB and send them on my Kindle) with Pocket and a web service called Crofflr. Interesting. That is sort of the things I've considered, however each serial's feed really is a single work being updated (mostly append-only I guess, I don't know how many serials authors go back and significantly rework previous entries) and I don't know how well epubs and their clients deal with updates / additions (without intermediate proprietary storefronts). I really need to knuckle down and play with epub, seeing how googling around doesn't seem to yield anything useful. > You can automate the RSS-to-Pocket (or other read-it-later service) part with tools such as If This Then That. "RSS to pocket" isn't really the issue, going through my RSS feed, reading the regular entries and sending the serials to pocket isn't much of a drain / difficulty. The issue is mostly that serial entries can accumulate rather fast in pocket (especially for those with small frequent entries e.g. one of the defunct serials I used to follow would publish a page per day), and so pocket is a mess of interspersed normal articles to read later and chapters from dozens of serials. Because of that I regularly find out I've skipped chapters.