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Comment by clktmr | Hacker News Reader

Personally would love to use an e-reader to read lengthy blog posts, but last time I tried it was very tedious. I converted the post to PDF using firefox's reader mode and uploaded these to the device. Are there any e-readers with something like firefox's reader mode integrated?

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A long time ago, I used a service where you subscribed to any number of blogs via their RSS feeds and the service created a daily or weekly e-book for you with all of the new posts, complete with a table of contents. If you had a Kindle, you could have it automatically sent to your device via the device's email address. It was wonderful, but eventually shut down - probably due to fewer and fewer blogs offering RSS feeds.

Kobo's stock reader has integration with Pocket: you add an article to Pocket on your desktop/phone, and your reader pulls queued articles when it's on WiFi. You can read them offline, and they're basically like reader-mode.

KOReader, which you can install on several ereader devices, has similar integration with Wallabag. I find it extremely convenient to read lengthy blog posts and news articles this way.

I use Kobo with Pocket integration for exactly this! Just install the extension, click the button, refresh on your e-reader and get reading :) It doesn't work for every page but it has been really useful for me.

I use a Boox device (see my top-level comment in this same thread for a breakdown of my experience), it runs Android with some light customization on top. So you can just install FireFox right on the device. Or you can use EinkBro, an e-ink optimized fork (of FF, I think?) that has paging built right in to better work with e-ink.

No one gave the answer that's worked for a decade: Calibre has a "Fetch News" option. You can customize it to any RSS feed. Calibre can then just download posts daily/weekly and make ebooks out of them.

Not sure if it still exists, but when I had a kindle, I had a virtual printers you'd print documents to, and it would automatically appear on the kindle. Very good experience.

you can still email documents to your kindle

Kobo has Pocket integration.

Yep, it's super convenient for storing up long-form articles.

If you are looking at the big names (Kindle, Kobo, Nook), I doubt it. The devices become far more open elsewhere. I have a Boyue Likebook eReader which has unfettered access to the internet via built in web browser and Chrome.

Pocket or Instapaper work well for this.

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