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Old 07-24-2013, 02:45 AM   #6
mimble
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Device: pocketbook 912
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Originally Posted by rudi42 View Post
Hello,
I would like to use an ebook reader to read news that are available as RSS feeds.
My idea is that
- the reader connects at a scheduled time (e.g. 6am) with my WLAN,
- downloads the feeds I have subscribed to (somewhere I should be able to define that in the reader), and
- I have all RSS-feed-news available offline on my way to work.

Is such a device available? I am looking for a low price solution and long
The Pocketbook e-ink readers almost do what you want. They do have an e-ink screen and will talk over a WLAN.
They will not wake up at 6am and sync. They have three relevant problems.
* You cannot paste a link from the primordial browser to the RSS app.
* The RSS app only downloads titles. To get the article, it wants a WLAN connection.

I think you might have a hard time avoiding a PC.
What does work for me is I connect the reader to a PC before I hop in the shower in the morning. I let calibre download from the RSS feeds of various papers and it builds a very good approximation to a newspaper.
I can read this on the train.

This will work with just about every device on the planet. Calibre is very clever.

Last edited by mimble; 07-25-2013 at 03:35 AM. Reason: What I wrote was not correct
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