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Comment by giancarlostoro | Hacker News Reader

I would love this, every time I'm reading off my Kindle I wish that it could go online so I could read blog posts and some websites. I don't like the eye strain I get after being on the computer for far too long.

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I like reading on my HP Stream 11 with Linux installed, I can run redshit and set the colour temperature of the screen really low (currently on 1800 Kelvin), and then run this command:

   echo 200 >/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness

to set the brightness below the default minimum (change the value 200 as required)

I can comfortably read on this screen in complete darkness.

I have hotkey set for these commands.

I've been toying with the idea of using an AMOLED screen with inverted colors for reading. That should be very close to eink, as AMOLED doesn't emit any light for black.

That's a good idea. I recently put my phone screen on greyscale and inverted the colours. So much less obnoxious.

I noticed you wrote redshit. I think you meant redshift? I had a good chuckle at the very least.

Ah! Indeed. Need to watch how much beetroot I eat.

Kindle does have an experimental browser that's marginally functional.

For the few days I had a Kindle before immediately losing it, I was using p2k.co to read blogposts/articles on it. Save to pocket, then use p2k to send them to the Kindle. Definitely a bit cumbersome but it worked.

This is great! Exactly what I want actually...

There are tools that let you send articles / blogs to your kindle. Check out the comfy read app on iOS, or google "send to kindle" . Obviously not the same as browsing, but still really nice

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