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?

  • arran 🇦🇺
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    2 months ago

    I"m not entirely sure on the pdf / epub use case, is that for RSS contents, or RSS referred contents? If it’s referred contents then perhaps use something like Omnivore or a script/plugin.

    I suspect you might be mixing something that’s better done as two different apps into one. Omnivore and similar tools you would probably want an integration for a “read later” tool.

    If it’s the RSS contents you might need to use a script or plugin in an existing tool, or just write something.

    In terms of desktop RSS readers I like, RSSGuard, but currently using Akgregator.

    Miniflux IIRC has integrations for sending things to “read later” tools like “Omnivore” but not many.

    You might find something like mailbrew useful, but if you do perhaps a “send to email” is all you needed?

    You could also publish content directly to imap and use the phone’s mail client which stores things offline too. (You don’t need a full setup for imap.)