On
readbeam.com I have cobbled together basically a hosted version of calibre.
This allows you to either request news-sources manually or have them sent to you on a schedule e.g:
Get me the New York Times every morning at 6 and mail it automagically to my Kindle.
The site is currently neither beautiful nor comfortable. Please give it a spin and let me know what you think. Please be gentle when requesting many sources on a frequent schedule, this is quite computing intensive and may bog down or crash the system.
P.S. I chose to compile all the recipes on
github.com, for all git users out there, this may be helpful.
P.P.S This is built on the hard work of Kovid and many recipe writers, I just added the plumbing. Thanks!
P.P.P.S I am especially interested on your views about all the copyright issues I may face here. My current understanding is - basically - that the manual fetch should be ok, because one person is manually requesting a copy of a site, like when you request a site with your browser and maybe have an adblocker installed.
I hope the subscription service is legal as well, because not I am serving the recipes, but you are. So my line of thought is: I am just offering a hosting platform with an API, you are programming it and doing something 'bad' (accessing e.g. the economist.com site, that is). So it's again you doing the scraping...
But I don't know, please let me know what you think. If there are compelling reasons I may lock down the site and just use it privately.
Thanks for your time,
Tom
X.S. For now it's mobi only, if there is enough demand, I will add epub support later.