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@user_none: I was thinking of that, too.
The issue right now is, that it is very complicated for a normal user to VNC into the server and handle the Calibre "fetch news" service himself.
A web based solution would be so much better, if it is really simple to use. Though the idea is to make it as simple as possible. A plain website, with user registration and some choosing which news feeds he wants. Quit simple. It has to be so simple that my mom can use it.
But by doing that there won't be the need to "Kindly buy" the newspapers anymore. Obviously there is a difference between the paid newspapers and free newspapers. This service would only use the free newspaper feeds. It would go into competition with the "Kindle buy" paid newspapers - somehow.
Another problem is that more and more people are using Google Reader and "creating" their newspaper themselves. This service wouldn't be able to deliver their personalized news to the Kindle device.
Anyhow. I think sending around prebuilt newspapers to Kindle devices as a easy to use web service is cool. The only thing the User would have to do himself, except registering and choosing the news he wants, is to enable the service email address in his Amazon Kindle settings, so the emails with the attached books actually go through. But this is rather easy to do.
Someone wants to join up doing this?
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