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- Nxtpaper products of tcl are almost as good as eink but without losing the color and screen speed of normal phones. Just change the mode with a switch and you have an ereader. Mate screen and colors and light like an eink device.by alsanan
- Are you using one of their products? which one? What are you using it for?
- I have crossink which is awesome on the x3. I find it better with more features on top of crossink.
And then setup home assistant and picture rendering so when a package or person is detected while I'm reading on a jailbroke kindle, it pops up in the corner automatically with the feed so I can see who it is.
Tailscale too.
Having full control of these devices is awesome.
by zackify - I had a similar idea on https://tuhat.net/
You can browse it on your ereader and any post can be downloaded as epub. Also for people who serialize books and put them in a collection, you can get the whole collection as a single epub.
I've been thinking about turning your /reading list into one as well but not got ten round to it.
by 8by3 - I’ve got an X4 as well, and https://rcarmo.github.io/projects/bun-readlater-epub/ and https://rcarmo.github.io/projects/bun-opds-server/ were created for it.
I have also added an e-ink theme to https://rcarmo.github.io/projects/picoflux/ so I can use the browser on my Nomad instead of my iPad, for those trips where I want to read “live” news but not be suckered in by it (and picoflux is how I deal with title-only feeds as well)
by rcarmo - In case it is useful for anybody.
I forked the old Pocket-Plus-Calibre-Plugin recipe when Pocket died, so it run with Todoist: https://github.com/rga5321/todoist2ebook
My workflow is:
(1) Browse my favorite sites and rss feeds. Save the urls I want to read to a specific Todoist list. I coded a little extension for firefox to do it using a keyboard shortcut https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/todoist-quick.... But in some sites, every feed is added to the list automatically using IFTTT
(2) Every day at a given hour, a cronjob runs on my raspberry pi executing the script, which builds a epub, mark the articles (tasks in todoist) as completed, and sends the ebook to my kindle email address.
In general it works well, although as more web sites implements anti bot measures, some articles are not downloaded correctly. What I do in those cases is add the domain to the exception list, and every week or so browse the articles manually, use https://dotepub.com to download every article in a given folder, and run another script that joins them in a single file and sends it to my kindle email address. I'd like to find time to code that the main script todoist2ebook detects when an article has not been correctly processed so it can automate that fallback logic using chrome headless or something like that.
Final note, I used todoist to store the articles because I was already using it for task management and have a simple rest api, but the script could be easily modified to store the articles somewhere else.
by rga5321 - My wife bought a large PocketBook (almost A4 size screen) e-reader and just last night I discovered it has a built in RSS reader.
No function to import or export OPML, unfortunately.
But adding a few high value feeds would be worth our time I guess.
by janandonly - Lack of a decent RSS client is one of the major things keeping me on an iPad over an e-ink tablet. I wish manufacturers like Remarkable would get serious about having software platforms.by Eric_WVGG
- by yitchelle
- I think I might have what you want.
I built a web-based RSS reader for the Kindle browser (but it should work on other e-ink devices too).
You can read feeds online or download them directly on your device.
Please try it and let me know what you think!
by adhamsalama - KOReader (https://koreader.rocks/) is supported on many e-readers and has a news downloader that can do this: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/News-downloader
(n.b. haven't tried it, but I'm a happy user of KOReader for a couple of years now.)
by tomodachi94 - I have an X4 as well and tried going down this path but it's just a bit too much friction for me to set my X4 to hotspot mode and run the calibre sync every time I want to refresh my feed.
Absolutely love the idea though. Just wish Crosspoint/X4 had the ability to schedule push/pull, but that would likely burn through the battery.
by jeromechoo - Have you tried OPDS instead? There's a link to it on the Crosspoint homescreen. Connects to your latest access point so no hotspot mode.by jordanscales
- Same, I think there's too much friction yet. Maybe at some point it could become a crosspoint feature I hope!
EDIT: Just checking on the crosspoint site they say such thing is not planned: https://crosspointreader.com/roadmap (section Out of roadmap: Active connectivity (RSS, news, browsers))
by etra0 - Calibre does this for you and has for a long time. Docs: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/news.html
I used to read lwn.net from my e-reader, worked great.
by zie - This doesn't work for me in spite of over 10 years of trying. I am currently eating lunch and wasting time on HN on my phone, but my ebook reader full of edifying material is sitting there ignored on the table, right in front of me. I need some way of leaving the phone at home completely, but in my country so much basic everyday stuff relies on a phone (and strong bank authentication through a phone).by TFNA
- schedule a meeting on your calendar for no phone timeby fragmede
- sure ppl still take cash. also what are you buying all the time?
just go out and dont buy anything
by dominotw - Set your phone to display only in greyscale. It takes all the fun and cartoonishness out of it, which is a good thing.by noman-land
- I always hear the “I need my phone for bank stuff” but can’t you just leave your phone at home and then schedule going to the bank if it’s that necessary to a part of your day? I can’t imagine you need to be interacting with the bank 24/7/365.by righthand
- For me it’s about building a routine. I go to a coffee shop every morning with my kindle and phone. Phone in my pocket on do not disturb and just read for an hour.
It’s not that hard to disconnect if you really want to.
by dewey - I've found having draconian phone blocking rules helps. I use Jomo
but I'm sure there are other competing products.
Roughly, you can classify apps in your phone to things that
1. are fundamentally fine (various bank/payment apps, messaging app, map apps), and
2. are known time wasters (social media)
you then just block the time wasters. you can configure it so that to edit the settings of the app, you have to enter some 150 character randomized code. it is very annoying to do.
this is the point though. there are other ways you can add friction to using your phone. setting its display to be black and white makes it much less enjoyable to use, for example. if you add in enough friction (and stick with it over an initial "hump"), you'll findi yourself reaching for other options.
by mswphd - In my regular RSS reader I often have the problem that some feeds are not full feeds, or some images are missing (In case they have some gallery) and I have to click out to the page, even just to verify I got the full text. That always kinda stops me from going the eink route where I don’t have a proper browser.
Depends on which feeds you subscribe to I guess, probably works really well for long form, reliable feeds.
by dewey - The really annoying ones are substack as it often wants you to sign in to access even free full text posts.by 8by3
- An Android eink device would solve this problem. I'd like recommendations.by neves
- https://rcarmo.github.io/projects/picoflux/ fixes that for me.by rcarmo
- I really like the idea of reading blogs on my Kindle, so I built https://inkfeed.xyz
It's a web-based RSS reader optimized for e-ink devices (especially Kindles) that allows you to read blogs online via the Kindle browser, and download the blogs (directly on your Kindle or email it to your Kindle email).
And it does support fetching the full article using Mozilla's readability package!
Please try it and let me know what you think!
by adhamsalama - I built a RSS feed hydrator just for this. It grabs the basic feed and adds whatever I need to it.
Then it generates a new one that I subscribe to on my feed reader.
by theshrike79 - One way to get around this in some cases is to subscribe to the feed's associated email newsletter, which, IME, is more likely to have the full text of the article. This, of course, introduces other problems[1], but if your goal is to remove reasons to habitually look at your phone, it's worth investigating.
[1] The feed needs to have a newsletter in the first place, you probably need to clean up the markdown a bit before shoving it into an epub (I've noticed that table-based layouts are much more common, for instance), and your email provider probably doesn't provide an RSS feed of your inbox. The latter two are straightforward to fix but do require a bit of programming elbow grease.
by nimih - A majority of the feeds I subscribe to do not include the full text in the feed themselves which is one of the main reasons I use Miniflux which has an option to fetch the full article text and works very reliably. Of the more than 150 feeds I am subscribed to, I think there are fewer than 5 that Miniflux is unable to fetch the text for. Miniflux can also connect to Wallabag to quickly save pages to it using the full text. That is great because Wallabag is often unable to fetch text directly on its own.