12-05-2007, 09:09 AM | #1 |
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periodically email combined RSS feeds to Kindle account?
So not wanting to pay $2 a month x 10 feeds just to have wireless delivery, and not wanting to have to hook up the Kindle to a computer on a daily basis, and wanting a wireless solution, is there any program or method out there that will utilize a computer to grab rss feeds all day long and say ever morning combine those into one file (likely html) and email it to your kindle email account for you?
Yeah, not super current but that isn't needed for all blogs/rss feeds. Yeah, it would be one long document, not individual feeds but that is OK. Yeah, it would cost 10 cents a day, but that is a whole lot better than $20 a month or more!!! Thoughts???? |
12-05-2007, 10:27 AM | #2 |
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I've thought about this already and Feedbooks could very easily do this. BUT it's written in the user manual that you're not authorized to create such a system...
The other solution is this: instead of receiving those feeds through e-mail, you bookmark the page on Feedbooks with your subscriptions (coule be a single file or multiple files), and you download those Mobipocket files through the Kindle browser. |
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"The conversion service on Your Kindle is meant for the receipt of personal, non-commercial documents only. You may not authorize the sending of documents from automated distribution services." I don't think that you want Amazon to ban Feedbooks. I think there's 2 way we could avoid this:
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12-05-2007, 11:33 PM | #5 | |
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I do wonder how long the email conversion service will last. Seems like Amazon could open themselves up to copyright infringement claims if they are sent copyrighted material (such as blogs) for conversion. This is probably part of the reason for the limitation to personal, non-commercial works. |
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Amazon will have to keep the conversion service running somehow. They already received bad press for their lack of support for a large number of formats (PDF for example), if they remove this service it'll be even worse. They could potentially identify copyrighted materials, but they would need a lot of extra ressources and a very good database. Not sure that they could do this. |
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Doesn't matter how much bad press they get, if having the service results in multi-million dollar lawsuits, it will go away, bad press or no [and if they tried to fight it too much and looked to be losing, then shareholders might sue]. If this happens, the bad guy isn't Amazon, it's US laws and legal system. I hope this doesn't happen. Since free conversion software already exists, I'm not sure it would make sense for Amazon to make yet another version -- they may just be using the existing free software as it is. |
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+ a conversion service doesn't mean that the Kindle support these formats, the experience is very different |
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I like it! Here's the first one I tried, and it works great, with fast response time and clean content: rsskindle.com/?url=http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/world/rss Now, I typed in the entire URL as above, and bookmarked it, but hope I will not have to Kindle-type every one. That's because, for me, a useful RSS feed is full text, and those URL's tend to be long. For example, I would rather not type this in on the Kindle, if I can avoid it: rsskindle.com/?url=http://www.wizardrss.com/feed/www.jpost.com/Rss/RssFeedsIsraelNews.aspx or especially: rsskindle.com/?url=http://www.getfullrss.com/makefulltextfeed.php?url=http://www.haaretz.com/cmlink/haaretz-com-headlines-rss-1.263335%3FlocalLinksEnabled%3Dfalse&key=&max=2&su bm Is there a way to maybe email links in a .txt document sent to my free.kindle.com, and then copy/paste the url's from the .txt "book" to the browser url bar? Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 11-04-2010 at 11:17 PM. |
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Interesting thread. I didn't realize you could do some of these things. Thanks, all.
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