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Maybe I'm missing exactly what you want to do but I use instapaper+kindle for hands-free kindle syncing with zero hassle, all for free.

Save articles i want to read to instapaper, and once a day (or on demand with one click) it emails the .mobi file with your top instapapers to your kindle email address. Delivery is free if connected on wifi and you send to username@kindle.free.com.

http://www.instapaper.com/user/kindle

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I save a lot more than 20 articles every day. I also don't like the way Instapaper bundles the articles in identically named packages.

Readability makes them all separate items in my reading list, and does a better job (last time I checked) of keeping the author and publication info.

Fair enough. I actually like the way instapaper puts it all together in to one file - i get a kinda of 'personal newspaper' that has it's own contents page etc. And no way I would get through more than 20 articles of reading daily.

Yeah, I can see how that would work. When I was using it, it didn't even have different names or dates or anything for the different files, so it was impossible to even guess where a specific article was.

And I didn't say anything about getting through more than 20 articles. I said I save that many. I try to read a few every night, but usually on a weekend or on an airplane is where I get a lot of reading done.

Marco has another bookmarklet currently available for testing by subscribers that lets you send individual articles directly to your Kindle, bypassing your Instapaper queue entirely. I haven't tried this yet, however.

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