From RSS to My Kindle

It doesn't look like the author's code is conforming to this part of the standard.

If that is the case, then their Kindle may be able to tolerate the deviation. But using this code with an e-reader that adheres closely to the EPUB spec may produce broken results.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/#sec-zip-container-mime

Or maybe even that TCL tablet that looks kinda like e-ink, but is actually OLED: https://www.tcl.com/uk/en/tablets/tcl-nxtpaper-10s.

Constantly pushing stuff to Kindle, which is inherently extremely limited device (gotta love walled gardens!) feels like a bit too much friction to me.

This project uses Amazon's email gateway, which I think is limited to 25 articles per month (don't quote me on this).

First, specifically about this "RSS to kindle" thing: it's definitely nice, but it means I need to push all articles to kindle, including those I'm not interested in by reading the headline. When I use feedly, I probably scroll past more than half of the articles in my feed. I wish there was a native RSS reader on kindle.

And I have similar needs to articles that I find on Hacker News or elsewhere. Most of the time I push them to Pocket and deal with them later. I haven't tried all pocket integrations (or other similar "push to kindle services), but p2k isn't great as it compresses images to the degree that they are not legible any more. And there are always some articles that either don't render at all, or things break (e.g. table not showing). Finally, it's painful to clean up my kindle library, and I wish I don't need to do any organization work.

I considered boox but they are really bad at keeping Android updated. Customer service is also bad -- I have seen horror stories.

Scribe's browser is actually much better than in previous generations, but nowhere near what I find usable.

Perhaps the best solution is to have an iPad mini. The device is very responsive, the screen size is perfect, there are lots of apps for almost everything I want to read, and the article mode in Safari works well. But I really don't want to spend $400 to have another tablet just for reading, and I really want things to just work on my two kindles. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a great way to do that.

I subscribe RSS to Omnivore and use tags for those I read later. I have tag "logseq" which imports those read later articles to logseq (via omnivore plugin). Then I sync by syncthing to Onyx Boox ereader and read them here. Omnivore let me save articles from various sources offline, which works great for ereader.

It would be faster to read read Omnivore right in browser, however Im using Onyx Boox mostly offline because I dont trust their apps. Also, Omnivore let me highlight notes right in text which gives me another link in logseq database.

https://omnivore.app/

https://logseq.com/

https://syncthing.net/

I used a traditional web-based RSS reader for many years but found that I wounded up checking it just as compulsively as the sites it ostensibly replaced.

personally though, i am awaiting the new generations of eink displays on android tablets to become more accessible to avoid this level of complexity or reliance.

https://gist.github.com/leoherzog/1dcffe776af200cd9117

Very cool!

I've been using Readwise (and Reader) which have been great, but it's rather expensive.

I'd love to be able to send an arbitrary article to Feedi like I can with Reader, but also would love to sync highlights back from my kindle.

Going to lurk the repo, cool stuff!