Show HN: Serve your saved articles to a Kindle (opens in new tab)

The kindle ecosystem is a disgrace when it comes to compatibility.

I have implemented a similar service (working from the WWW) that tracks your favourite RSS feeds and sends content to your kindle via their (terrible) sharing email address.

I find it sad that a company with Amazon's reach plays this dirty with what users are allowed to have on their devices. :(

This is super interesting.

I've wanted to get an e-reader for a while now, but I'd really like to be able to read the articles I have saved in Wallabag[1] on it so I could go fully offline for a day or two a week. One potential solution I saw which is similar to this was wallabag-kindle-consumer[2] but both of this and your solution have issues that dissuade me from them. The first is that I think there's a lot of metadata that isn't encapsulated by both of these solutions. Tagging/highlighting are the first things that spring to mind. The second issue is both are very kindle-specific and I wonder if/how they'd work on a non-Amazon e-reader?

Take my comments with a grain of salt though - I haven't owned an e-reader in years so maybe the interface wouldn't even readily support tagging/highlighting the way I imagine it. I appreciate how simple your solution is and can readily see how it could be extended to support tags at least from the search interface and integrate with other services like Wallabag! Thanks for your work and if I do end up getting an e-reader you'll definitely be seeing some pull requests from me!

[1] https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag [2] https://github.com/janLo/wallabag-kindle-consumer

There is an official browser extension from Amazon for this[0] that allows you to send any web page from browser to your Kindle in 2 clicks.

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/

In the same vein, I discovered https://ktool.io/ recently - if anyone is interested in similar functionality but doesn't want to run the media server themselves.

Instapaper has this as a feature. Only in the paid subscription, though, I think.

Another great app that can send articles to Kindle is https://hq.getmatter.app/

The Send to Kindle browser extension is great but it's not really usable on mobile.

With Matter I can add something to my queue while browsing on mobile and from Matter send it to my Kindle already parsed and ready to read.

Everytime I email PDFs to my Kindle, I get a verification email with a link I have to click on. This same email says I can avoid this verification step by adding the sending email address as an approved sender (or whatever) which I've done. But then also I've got these sent emails with large attachments to go delete. So it's a pretty clunky workflow.

Tangential, there used to be a web service called Readlists which used to transform collection of articles into a kindle readable book and send it to the added kindle address. I found it very optimal to my needs due to its non technical nature and simplicity. That service shutdown a while back though. Is there any similar service?

I made this myself a long time ago for just a few specific websites. Thank you for this, a generalized version is amazing.

It's slightly different, but I can recommend https://www.fivefilters.org/push-to-kindle/ Works perfectly.

I use it as a (n effectively) free browser plugin, and also paid for the iPhone app, because it's super-useful to have available there, and also to support the creator - this was something I'd wanted to write for myself and was very glad to not have to.

I haven’t tried it, but one of the features Kobo push is native Pocket integration,[1] which might be useful to some people in this thread.

https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017763753-Use-the...

There is a free service called Tinderizer[1], which sends web page to kindle using a bookmarklet. It works by opening the web page in a browser, apply readability javascript code, convert to PDF and emails to your kindle email address. All of this done in backend in a very few seconds. It will automatically appear in your kindle shortly after that. It won't work properly for subscription sites as it takes snapshot of the non logged in user. I have used this service for nearly a decade until Amazon decided to close my account.

[1] https://tinderizer.com/