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shermozle · 09-22-2010, 12:57 AM

Hi folks.

I pay to subscribe to an email newsletter that comes in HTML format with image links -- so it expects a browser to get the images from the Internet. I'd really like to be able to read this (quite long) daily newsletter on my Kindle, and ideally just turn up there. I haven't got anything satisfactory yet.

So far all I've been printing from my browser to A5 PDFs and reading those, but Kindle isn't great for PDFs and I end up in landscape mode. I found the browser clipped the width on any smaller page size, but even at A5 the text is too small to read comfortably.

The big cause of the problem is they format the pages using HTML tables set to 700 pixels. I know, how 1996 of them, but I suppose they have to deal with ancient HTML renderers in dinosaurs like Outlook 2003.

So anyone have any thoughts on how to automatically reformat these? There is an online link sent in each of the emails each day. I suppose I could write a quick Perl script to scrape that link out of the emails and kick off some conversion process on that link, but it shares the same problems.

I'll also talk to the newsletter's owners and see if they can offer a (password protected) full RSS feed for subscribers.

PS: In case you care, the newsletter is http://www.crikey.com.au/ but not the sample they give looks nothing like what is delivered these days!

09-22-2010, 12:57 AM	#1
shermozle Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle	Converting HTML emails? Hi folks. I pay to subscribe to an email newsletter that comes in HTML format with image links -- so it expects a browser to get the images from the Internet. I'd really like to be able to read this (quite long) daily newsletter on my Kindle, and ideally just turn up there. I haven't got anything satisfactory yet. So far all I've been printing from my browser to A5 PDFs and reading those, but Kindle isn't great for PDFs and I end up in landscape mode. I found the browser clipped the width on any smaller page size, but even at A5 the text is too small to read comfortably. The big cause of the problem is they format the pages using HTML tables set to 700 pixels. I know, how 1996 of them, but I suppose they have to deal with ancient HTML renderers in dinosaurs like Outlook 2003. So anyone have any thoughts on how to automatically reformat these? There is an online link sent in each of the emails each day. I suppose I could write a quick Perl script to scrape that link out of the emails and kick off some conversion process on that link, but it shares the same problems. I'll also talk to the newsletter's owners and see if they can offer a (password protected) full RSS feed for subscribers. PS: In case you care, the newsletter is http://www.crikey.com.au/ but not the sample they give looks nothing like what is delivered these days!