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Kobo readers have Pocket built in. Would be nice to have straight RSS too but I send long reads to my reader all the time. reMarkable has a Chrome extention to

Kobo readers have Pocket built in. Would be nice to have straight RSS too but I send long reads to my reader all the time. reMarkable has a Chrome extention to send stuff to its devices, though it's a bit less seamless.

input_sh 5y ago
KOReader is fairly straightforward to install on a Kobo and it supports RSS: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/News-downloader https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/News-downloader You don't even have to say goodbye to original firmware, you can just restart into original. Its interface leaves a lot to be desired though.
- pinusc 5y ago
  I'd say KOreader interface is not pretty, but it gets the job done quite well—and certainly with a lot more features & customization than stock.
  - input_sh 5y ago
    > but it gets the job done quite well I don't know, I often find myself having to click random things to find the feature I'm looking for, even having to fall back to DDG a couple of times because I cannot find what I'm looking for.
    - hpfr 5y ago
      I just got a Kobo and went with Plato[1] over KOReader and it's been great for my purposes so far. Fewer features, but it has everything I need and performs even better than KOReader (it's written in Rust by the developer of bspwm/sxhkd and isn't carrying as much legacy baggage as KOReader, which has a longer history) with a very straightforward interface. It also has support for hooks, with a Wallabag integration as the example. 1: https://github.com/baskerville/plato https://github.com/baskerville/plato
dleslie 5y ago
Most of my Kobo time is spent viewing Pocket articles. I save links to Pocket during the day, and in my down time I read them on my Kobo.
- jkepler 5y ago
  I did this, but found I was saving way more articles than I ever had time for. Before long my backlog of stiff to read was overwhelmingly long, so I quit saving articles.
  - dleslie 5y ago
    It's the same with video games and books; you have to find a way to overcome the desire to finish things.
- abyssin 5y ago
  I had the same reading flow but I gradually got annoyed by how many web pages Pocket wouldn’t parse correctly, then how some pages wouldn’t display correctly on the Kobo. For instance some pages would have the text aligned to the right. Now I’d like to find something as straightforward as the Firefox integration for Pocket to send any page in PDF to my reMarkable tablet.
  - dleslie 5y ago
    Huh, odd; I've only had issues with paywalled sources.
dredmorbius 5y ago
Is that the Android Pocket app? I'm finding that ... exceedingly poorly suited to e-ink devices, on top of existing Pocket annoyances. For latter, see: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_it_gets_worse_the_more_you_use_it/ https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_... Of the listed issues, only find-in-page has been addressed. It's still not possible to cross-reference articles by tag within the app (this does work on the Web client), nor are tags readily searchable or editable (again, the Web app does somewhat better). On e-ink, where pixels are cheap but paints are expensive, Pocket suffers greatly from: - Not providing a persistent scrollbar to indicate position-within-article. - Not offering pagination as a default, persistent, fixed-render-for-document option. That is, documents are paginated, the pagination is set from the start of the document, not whatever arbitrary point pagination was "flipped" on. - Access to document annotation features from within the paginated view. - Ability to add tags directly from selected document text (with an option to edit). There are other gripes, but Pocket remains immensely frustrating to use in practice, and the more you use it, the worse it gets.
- devindotcom 5y ago
  No, it's a custom thing.
  - dredmorbius 5y ago
    Thanks.
fishywang 5y ago
For reMarkable, I also wrote a Telegram bot to convert http url into ePub and send to reMarkable directly: https://github.com/fishy/url2epub https://github.com/fishy/url2epub (if you don't like telegram or don't use reMarkable, it also comes with a public rest API to generate epub out of urls)

input_sh 5y ago

KOReader is fairly straightforward to install on a Kobo and it supports RSS: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/News-downloader https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/News-downloader You don't even have to say goodbye to original firmware, you can just restart into original. Its interface leaves a lot to be desired though.

pinusc 5y ago
I'd say KOreader interface is not pretty, but it gets the job done quite well—and certainly with a lot more features & customization than stock.
- input_sh 5y ago
  > but it gets the job done quite well I don't know, I often find myself having to click random things to find the feature I'm looking for, even having to fall back to DDG a couple of times because I cannot find what I'm looking for.
  - hpfr 5y ago
    I just got a Kobo and went with Plato[1] over KOReader and it's been great for my purposes so far. Fewer features, but it has everything I need and performs even better than KOReader (it's written in Rust by the developer of bspwm/sxhkd and isn't carrying as much legacy baggage as KOReader, which has a longer history) with a very straightforward interface. It also has support for hooks, with a Wallabag integration as the example. 1: https://github.com/baskerville/plato https://github.com/baskerville/plato

dleslie 5y ago

Most of my Kobo time is spent viewing Pocket articles. I save links to Pocket during the day, and in my down time I read them on my Kobo.

jkepler 5y ago
I did this, but found I was saving way more articles than I ever had time for. Before long my backlog of stiff to read was overwhelmingly long, so I quit saving articles.
- dleslie 5y ago
  It's the same with video games and books; you have to find a way to overcome the desire to finish things.
abyssin 5y ago
I had the same reading flow but I gradually got annoyed by how many web pages Pocket wouldn’t parse correctly, then how some pages wouldn’t display correctly on the Kobo. For instance some pages would have the text aligned to the right. Now I’d like to find something as straightforward as the Firefox integration for Pocket to send any page in PDF to my reMarkable tablet.
- dleslie 5y ago
  Huh, odd; I've only had issues with paywalled sources.

dredmorbius 5y ago

Is that the Android Pocket app? I'm finding that ... exceedingly poorly suited to e-ink devices, on top of existing Pocket annoyances. For latter, see: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_it_gets_worse_the_more_you_use_it/ https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_... Of the listed issues, only find-in-page has been addressed. It's still not possible to cross-reference articles by tag within the app (this does work on the Web client), nor are tags readily searchable or editable (again, the Web app does somewhat better). On e-ink, where pixels are cheap but paints are expensive, Pocket suffers greatly from: - Not providing a persistent scrollbar to indicate position-within-article. - Not offering pagination as a default, persistent, fixed-render-for-document option. That is, documents are paginated, the pagination is set from the start of the document, not whatever arbitrary point pagination was "flipped" on. - Access to document annotation features from within the paginated view. - Ability to add tags directly from selected document text (with an option to edit). There are other gripes, but Pocket remains immensely frustrating to use in practice, and the more you use it, the worse it gets.

devindotcom 5y ago
No, it's a custom thing.
- dredmorbius 5y ago
  Thanks.

fishywang 5y ago

For reMarkable, I also wrote a Telegram bot to convert http url into ePub and send to reMarkable directly: https://github.com/fishy/url2epub https://github.com/fishy/url2epub (if you don't like telegram or don't use reMarkable, it also comes with a public rest API to generate epub out of urls)