Right now I use Read You on my phone to get RSS feeds and I read articles on my browser but I want to cut the time I stare at my phone throughout the day so I came up with this system:
Once a week I will look at all the feeds I follow on my PC RSS reader, select the ones I want to read during the next week and save them / export them (possibly in PDF or ePUB?) so that I can put them on my old Kindle (that has no internet access) and read them only using the kindle during the week.
This will drastically reduce the time I use my phone to first scroll and select articles and then to actually read them. Looking at a screen all day for work and also looking at a screen (phone) in my free time is not good for me and I want to change that.
If no RSS reader has that option, does anyone know of another program or firefox extension that would let me "export" web pages as pdfs or epubs?
Anyone using NewsFlash? I really like it, specially to keep the seeds locally.
what stopped you from using it? Or did you stop following rss/atom feeds?
Yes, I actually stopped following RSS/Atom feeds. If I want to look something up, I do it from the web browser.
Maybe you clulde use the "Single page" firefox extension to save? You could also always print to pdf, this is built into firefox including mobile.
Yeah I thought about the print to pdf feature, hopefully though there are better alternatives. Thanks for the suggestion I will check the extension!
How are you selecting feeds to download? If you use a cloud/self hosted RSS service you can get a feed of articles you star. From there you can use a desktop feed reader to download the starred feed to your kindle:
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Calibre can download news articles as .epub files, and supports transferring them to the kindle via USB. It can extract webpage text from non full-content feeds in a customizable way with Python.
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KOreader's RSS feature stores feed items as .epub files as well, but it's not as customizable. It does support full text extraction, but you don't get any options to customize the output as far as I can tell.
Wow I'm already using Calibre but didn't know about that feature! Awesome, will look into it, thanks!
I second Calibre. You can configure it to roll all the articles into a single epub too, so they don't clutter your ereader. I tested it out recently and it works really well. I haven't had the discipline to do it yet but I love the idea of connecting to the internet once a week to download content and messages and then going back offline.
among other things, there is a plugin for Gemini client for KOReader, there is also something interesting to read there. or antenna-to-epub
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The most feature-rich RSS reader that I'm aware of, is QuiteRSS. I don't actually know, though, if it has PDF/ePUB export...
This is the RSS reader I use and like it a lot, but no it does not have an export feature like that.
I have used QuiteRSS extensively, but switched to RSSGuard recently.
No major issue with QuiteRSS, but I like how RSSGuard deals with rendering the article without any need for custom CSS.
Miniflux has integrations for sending content to read-later tools like Wallabag and then reading it in KOReader.
I enjoy fluent reader but you cannot export articles as a pdf as far as i know
Nowadays I'm trying omnivore.app, also Feeder on Android and Pocket for good measure.
