Eitan

2 months ago

Eitan
2 months ago

Desperately seeking news about #kobo plans now that #pocket is dead. If I don't have certainty soon I'll nerd snipe myself in the head and write a native RSS reader that prefetches articles into e-reader friendly formats. Please help I don't have time for this, but I have no control over my impulses.

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Ralf Stubner

in reply to Eitan 2 months ago

Do you know about manual.calibre-ebook.com/news.…? (Disclaimer: While I know about it, i have not used it.)

Adding your favorite news website — calibre 8.5.0 documentation

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Eitan

in reply to Ralf Stubner 2 months ago

@rstub Yeah, not quite what i am looking for. I want a similar on-device experience like you get from the kobo pocket app.

@Ralf Stubner

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Kevin Karhan

in reply to Eitan 2 months ago

In theory & practice #ePub is just a #zip archive with #HTML files and ither elements in it.

Pretty shure something like an #RSS -> ePub script is something @fuchsiii would know how to do.

#html #RSS #epub #zip @Fuchsiii~~~

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Eitan

in reply to Kevin Karhan 2 months ago

@kkarhan @fuchsiii I want more than an RSS -> epub script. I don't want my "books" collection on the device to get crowded with articles and new york times recipes. I want a separate "articles" experience that is more for quick reads, just like the current kobo pocket app.

@Fuchsiii~~~ @Kevin Karhan

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viq

in reply to Eitan 2 months ago

@kkarhan @fuchsiii I think wallabag may have something like this?

@Fuchsiii~~~ @Kevin Karhan

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Colin H.

in reply to Eitan 2 months ago

I don't know how close it is to your requirements, but here's something in the early stages of development:

(h/t @lrhodes)

github.com/baskerville/plato/i…

Wallabag integration

With Pocket shutting down very soon, I've looked into adding Wallabag support (and possibly other read-it-later services) in Plato with a nice UI. I know there's an article fetcher already, but my ...

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Eitan
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