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Read Hacker News on Kindle (2022)

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Previous announcement and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637996

Thought I'd share again since I needed it, found it and thought it was a perfectly simple and efficient tool. I liked that I could download the ePub directly instead of figuring out how to allow KTool to send files to my Kindle when I could do it easily myself.

In 2023 they upgraded the Kindle system so that the web browser is actually usable now. So you can browse Hacker News and many other sites directly, n WiFi. Even on my ancient Kindle it works.

Calibre have build in newspaper/magazine/site scrapper. https://calibre-ebook.com/ Would be interesting to create a plugin for hackernews. My left eye is in bad shape and have family history of retina detachment. I also start migrating to e-reader. think about e-ink monitor https://onyxboox.com/boox_mirapro

I keep seeing HN clients again and again to the point that... its tiresome. Why do you think there's a need to create a client for a website?

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40568585

Don’t you think some users may want this as it puts less strain on your eyes? Especially, if they spend a lot of time reading Hacker News.

I don't think it's a valid solution for such a problem. The solution has to be more general, not just for 1 site.

It looks like this is what it is actually. It's very expensive for what it is though (at least for me as a European).

This looks amazing. However sending each discussion to myself as an email or having to download it as an epub is really really tedious.

It would be so much more seamless as an app. I'm surprised Amazon never opened up an app ecosystem on the kindle.

KTool has the ability to do Daily/Weekly collections FYI, so could add a group that way if you sign up for full tool!

Hmm nice... I wouldn't subscribe to something that expensive though. And I don't like the offline/batch method.

I'll just use my tablet with one of the many HN reader apps. I don't really have eye strain issues. But I wish them well.

I like the layout though.

KOReader has a RSS downloaded plugin, that could also be used to read hacker news.

> the most interesting content is in the comment section It is, indeed!

That's a really nice project. I used it a few minutes ago and the resulting file is great. I like how top-level comments are sections. Also, you can highlight text and write notes.

The Google Play app seems to be missing from the store? I get 'app not found'. I'm in Croatia if that makes a difference

alternative: get an Amazon Scribe, surf the web

This is currently at the top of my list of next purchases. Out of curiosity, has your experience using it this way been good? Also curious if you've tried using Oreilly's web platform on it for consuming technical material.

So many better e readers at that price point that also function as actual phones or tablets and run Android.

Sure, it's no longer a super niche field. I don't really want a smart e-ink tablet, though. Just something to read technical books and occasionally browse the web (for the same content, basically).

I got one but ended up returning it. My use case was for reading technical books, PDFs and taking notes. I went back to using an iPad when I realised the scribe was heavier.

I read normal books on the kindle, PDFs on the iPad.

If it's for reading only, it's fine, but if you plan on doing a lot of writing and markup, skip it. The handwriting features are very limited, and you can't write on the actual pages or write margin notes at all, you can only write on virtual post-it notes that are kept separate from the book.

As a Scribe owner, let me say that using the web on there is far from pleasant. Yes it has the most RAM of a Kindle ever, but 1GB is not much unfortunately.

Also the biggest bottleneck is honestly the web browser itself. It _technically_ works, but it's super stripped down and JS-heavy sites especially struggle.

Yet another excuse for me to write my own e-reader friendly webapp

Do other Kindles allow web browsing?

Yes every kindle since the very first one had an "experimental" web browser in various stages of usability. All currently supported kindles have a web browser that is fairly usable though very slow.

They have for years, but the browser was historically very stripped down and didn't get get certificate or SSL/TLS algorithm updates, leaving parts of the web inaccessible as time went on. I only ever use it to hit Project Gutenberg for public-domain ebooks (though their redesign a few years ago made that a lot harder)

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