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Is there some way we can do this:

Bundle web articles I save as an ebook and send them to my Kindle. When I save new articles, that old book is updated on my Kindle - basically an append-only service.

I've been looking for this for a while, but don't find an easy way to update an existing book to append more pages to it. Any pointers are welcome, I'm willing to implement it.

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Not exactly what you’re asking for, but I’ve used https://p2k.co for many years and it’s great.

I used to print web pages out and read them on the train, then there was a lovely web plugin to send a web page to kindle, that stopped and did leave lots of files on my kindle.

This looks like it could top that, I just don’t commute so much.

I have made a quick-and-dirty script to save a website to an epub file: https://gist.github.com/solarkraft/2941ccf11a7aac5ebac3d173f...

Postlight's Mercury Parser can parse most websites. I likely wouldn't use nodepub again because you can't save books without a cover image; it's easy enough to just package the epub yourself (just a zip file with some XHTML).

You can sync the file over with any armv6 Linux capable app; an old version of Syncthing works just fine.

I think you cannot do it wirelessly (for a non-jailbroken device). If you connect with an USB cable, I think we can achieve it by removing the old file and replace it with a new one.

But I'm curious, why not creating new book every time?

Or if you don't want to read all of those articles yet, why not send it at some later time?

The problem with replacing books is that I would lose my older highlights.

If I create a new book for everything, it would become messy _really_ quickly.

So if it's possible to append pages to a book, I can also create a book per category and append pages as I save articles.

Ah I gotcha. I'm building a product[0] for non-jailbroken Kindles and would love to solve new problems.

In your case, if I can backup your highlights (and notes) to somewhere else, does that solve your problem? You can choose your storage service (dropbox, notion, s3 etc.)

[0]: https://ktool.io

Yeah that would be nice, could try it out. But I'm fickle - before putting that effort in, ask more of your users! Also, a table of contents with all the articles in the book would be nifty.

Maybe you can send me an email once you do it, I can try it out (I'll use the chat on the website to send my email). Also, just a heads-up: the 50$ seems like a but too much. For context, I bought my Kindle itself for ~40$ (India)

I didn't try out the preview thing the first time since setting up the email is too much of a hassle (didn't know it would dynamically preview). But I typed in an article url anyway to see what would happen anyway, and I LOVE the kindle preview. I think it's brilliant!

All the best!

Looks pretty awesome, kudos!

If i may offer some feedback, demo screens from the app/website, and some example sources outside of Twitter ( e.g. i wanted to know if it's capable of reading RSS feeds) might be useful additions to your site.

I wish i knew about it before buying an Onyx Boox Nova Air to replace my Kindle for that particular use case ( news reading, mostly through my RSS reader which is web-based).

Thanks for your valuable feedback.

Yeah you’re right, my landing page is not very good at the moment. I’m in the process of improving it :-)

This isn't everything you want, but it does bundle the articles. It just doesn't have the "append" feature: https://epub.press

Kobo eReaders come with support for syncing articles from Pocket out-of-the-box.

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