- What i did is, jailbreak [1] my Kindle Oasis, and install KOreader [2].
This gives you full access to upload whatever ebook you want (SSH, WebDav, Syncthing, ...) and it can fetch RSS feeds (i use it with FreshRSS.)
PS. The (very old) Kindle Oasis is still the best device there is to read on in my opion. Which is crazy, since it was released from 2016-2019...
It has 2 phyisical buttons to turn the page, and an ambient light sensor to auto adjust the brightness, and a 300 PPI display.
I'm still "waiting" for a better / equal device to be released.
[1] https://kindlemodding.org/kindle-models.html
[2] https://github.com/koreader/koreader
- There's something really satisfying about these kinds of personal pipelines. You stitch together a few tools that weren't designed to work together, automate the glue, and end up with something that fits your workflow better than any single product could. I love it.
I've built a few of these for myself -- a bridge that exposes Apple Notes
over HTTP so I can access them from a Linux VM, a sync tool that pulls Notion
pages down as local markdown. None of them are "products" but they're some of
the most useful things I've built. The common thread is always the same: take
something locked into one device or ecosystem and make it accessible where you
actually want it.
The author's point about not needing a new device is the right instinct. The best version of this stuff is almost always "what can I do with what I already have" before reaching for new hardware.
Btw, I have my own Kindle Oasis, so want to give this a shot!
- I went the complete opposite and print one A4 every morning [0], so I don't have to touch any device.
[0]: https://github.com/bobek/rannich-5minut-denikn
by longnguyen
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- Nice. I quit my job to build a product[0] to solve this exact problem.
I’m not interested in news but I love reading blog posts, newsletters and interesting technical discussions on HN or reddit.
So I built KTool as a “read it later on Kindle” solution. It supports web links, newsletters (via email forwarding) and RSS. I also added the ability to compile multiple articles into one magazine/ebook and deliver them at a specific time.
Give it a try if you’re a Kindle owner.
[0]: https://ktool.io
- I tried to put together something similar… I guess it is reassuring that others are struggling to find a nice e2e setup as well.
I was intending to vibe code the whole pipeline then stumbled onto Readwise, $10/mo is currently cheap enough to prevent me from building my own.
(I splurged on the Boox so I could easily use/build Android apps on the reader/collection side.)
It does feel like there is a big OSS gap here, and I wish Readwise luck on commercializing too.
From my side the remaining piece is building my own recommendation / crawling pipeline to expand my set of RSS feeds, feels like a good project to add on and Readwise seems quite extensible so it’s a good base to build on.
by spidermonkey23
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- made something with vibe assistance, for generating ebooks from the guardian.com.
the approach here is to self host a web service and download the books from the experimental browser as .mobi for kindle use. These are then fully local and easy to delete after.
https://github.com/tomesparon/guardian-rss-mobi-maker
by naftalibeder
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- Hopefully condoned plug for a service I built, Polyreader (https://polyreader.app), which lets you quickly send articles to your Kindle.
It supports (multiple simultaneous) collections, send via email, saving new articles from links while reading on your Kindle, and little niceties like sending yourself a reminder note at the end of an article ("tell mom this was interesting").
It's also cheap (free tier or $1/month).
- I did something similar. My computer crawls lite.cnn.com each Saturday. I feed it all into Gemini who composes a "front page" with links in HTML. Then the whole thing is converted to a PDF and uploaded to my Google drive with the day's date as the title. My Boox reader (some Chinese company) is synced to my Google Drive and I just open it from there. I didn't even code any of this, Gemini did.
It's a nice thing to read on Saturday morning with a coffee.
- I also just did this! My solution was to automate creation of a set of static html pages that I view in the “experimental” kindle browser. It’s set to scrape a paper and build the site at 6am every morning. That was I don’t have to mess with the file transfers, and it’s there waiting for me when I wake up. Also I can mess with the layout a bit easier. Only downside is that I have to have next/back buttons rather than tapping on the screen.
- Quite ironically, readeck is not able to parse this article
EDIT: used the firefox extension to save it, pasting the link directly into readeck works :)
- I would suggest to just jailbreak the kindle and automate the workflow with koreader or other "apps"
by clickety_clack
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- This should be a normal thing you can do on a kindle. I miss kindle magazines.
- A while ago I made this to get content from websites for reading in pdf. With what I use (Supernote) you can have an automated script to pull articles in the morning and put them in a dropbox folder that automatically syncs with the device.
https://github.com/lnenad/newser
- I've had Calibre running someplace and mailing me news every weekend for around... 15 years?
I keep waiting for Amazon to break mail-to-kindle, but fortunately that hasn't happened yet. Gmail, though... breaks every three months or so.
- Nice. I consumed Hacker News like this for a few weeks.
by tpaschalis
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- Nice write up!
After a couple of attempts I settled on a a different approach for my old Kobo.
It can connect to Dropbox so I deployed a small app in Fly.io which takes a link, bundles it as an epub and uploads to the right folder. Day-to-day all I use is a bookmarklet
by nguyendinhdoan
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- Love this approach — using existing hardware creatively instead of buying new gear. The Readeck + Calibre pipeline is clever, especially since Readeck can export directly to ePub.
One thing worth noting: if the "requires a computer" limitation bothers you, KOReader (an open-source reader that runs on Kindle) can fetch RSS feeds and even Wallabag/Readeck content natively over wifi. Might close that last gap without needing a new device.
- This setup feels cumbersome, since you also have to manually track which items you have read. Kobo seems to offer better features in this sense (better than a jail broken kindle), however I like the build of my Kindle Oasis 2 too much.
- i created my own rss reader + bookmark list website that i just access through the kindle browser (i dont have it logged into any amazon account though). yours is a cool internet-less idea though!
- That’s wonderful. And I can do that to my 1st gen Nook as well.
by LeoDaVibeci
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- That's so cool, I would love to have a less distracting experience while reading the news.
It could even be paired with an AI summary service that could summarize Reddit/HN activity, like Huxe does in it's generated podcasts.
by general_reveal
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- iPad with paper-like is a much more versatile device. Just turn the brightness now.
by adhamsalama
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- I faced the same issue, but I wanted to use my Kindle to read RSS feeds without relying on my PC, phone or Amazon, so I built a FOSS web-based RSS reader compatible with the Kindle browser. It may make your life a lot simpler.
Link: https://inkfeed.xyz
Repo: https://github.com/adhamsalama/inkfeed-reader
- Uh, pretty sure the kindle paperwhites can import epubs natively now.
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