08-25-2007, 03:21 PM | #1 |
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Reader and RSS
Just a random question, does the reader have capability to deal with RSS feeds in any form? When I was a palm pilot user, I would download five or six feeds that I'd read on a daily basis.
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08-29-2007, 12:38 PM | #2 |
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Not natively. I did hack something together a while back to create a bunch of Reader-formatted PDFs (with hyperlinked table of contents) for BBC and CNN feeds but I haven't touched it in ages. If there's interest I can dig it out again, though it's a bit fiddly to setup.
I'm sure someone else did something better. Actually they did: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7946 Last edited by AdamT; 08-29-2007 at 12:44 PM. |
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08-29-2007, 01:02 PM | #3 |
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Still a work in progress but Feedbooks can turn RSS feeds into PDF formatted for the Reader (with TOC, hyphenation etc...): http://www.feedbooks.com/news
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08-30-2007, 08:03 PM | #4 |
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I thought that PDF documents are quite lack-lustre on the Reader?
This is a point of clarification, not complaining about what the Reader does/does not. I think RSS would be a really neat function for the Reader, and would lend it a good deal of street cred against all the naysayers of a single function device (but boy how the kids love those iPods). |
08-31-2007, 01:46 AM | #5 |
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Certainly the LRF/BBeB format is preferable as it supports features that a PDF cannot: auto-layout of pages for example. However, a PDF which is designed to fit the reader screen looks just as good, in my opinion.
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09-01-2007, 04:40 AM | #6 |
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PDFs formatted for the screen size of the Reader are just fine; the problem only occurs when you have a PDF that's been formatted for a much larger page size (eg US Letter or A4) and you try to read it on the Reader's much smaller screen.
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09-06-2007, 05:49 AM | #7 |
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Yes, RSS feeds on the reader would be great. It's the one feature I really, really want. As well as better PDF support. But that would lead to another discussion of which features one would like in future readers/updates.
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09-06-2007, 06:02 AM | #8 |
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RSS support is independent from the Reader itself, you don't need any update for it. I do read RSS feeds every day on my Reader: it's already possible.
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09-07-2007, 01:36 AM | #9 |
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Thanks, I'll give it a spin.
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