Hi!
One of the reasons I purchased my Kindle for was reading articles, and well, I couldn't find a good way of doing that yet.
Most of the articles I read are from
Medium, and I do have a subscription to it. Other sources would be cool too, but Medium is what I use the most.
And I mostly read articles about programming, so they often have code blocks in their body, like so:
Code:
class Micael:
def __init__(self):
self.__can_code = False
And sometimes even embedded GitHub Gists.
I wanted to be able to send articles to my Kindle from my browser/computer and from my phone.
I have the Medium app on my Android smartphone, and it'd be awesome to send articles directly from the app to my Kindle.
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Here are some things I tested:
And from my experimenting, they all have their drawbacks.
Take this article for example:
You’re living in 1985 if you don’t use Docker for your Data Science Projects
Send to Kindle (Amazon)
On Send to Kindle, the second item from "Requirements" disappears, as well as the entire second half of the article.
Instapaper
On Instapaper, if I first visit the article and then click on the extension, it does seem to grab the article correctly, with only the last paragraph missing, but that's kinda the "thanks for reading" part, so it doesn't matter as much.
However, if I add the link directly to Instapaper, only parts of the first paragraph show up, so it seems like I do have to manually visit every article I want to add.
Another "problem" I have with Instapaper is that it's a "read it later" app, and, well, the name says it, it's usually for reading things later. If I want to send something on the spot, to read it now, I either have to go through the settings and manually tell it to "send articles now", or have their premium plan that includes the "Send to Kindle" bookmarklet, whatever that might be. I haven't tested that one yet.
Tinderizer
Tinderizer heavily messes up the formatting, the code blocks, totally gets rid of the "Requirements" section, and also gets rid of the second half of the article.
Push to Kindle (FiveFilters)
Push to Kindle does a nearly perfect job, missing only the indentation inside the code block, but that'll likely be fixed soon!
It also has an Android app that can be used to send an article directly from the Medium app, and it works very well.
SENDtoREADER
Pretty much the same as Tinderizer too.
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So far,
Instapaper through the Chrome extension was the best one, but not quite ideal yet.
I've heard an alternative to Instapaper could be
Pocket, but I don't think it has the Kindle support Instapaper has. From my research, it seems that to integrate ("integrate") Pocket with the Kindle, one would have to use a third-party app, like
IFTTT, to fetch articles saved in Pocket, then beam them to the Kindle, or something like
P2K, that's also a third-party service, but I haven't tested that yet.
The ideal scenario would be as follows:
- Micael is browsing articles, either on his phone or on his computer
- Micael sees an article he'd like to read
- Micael presses a button (be it the "share" button, or an extension in the browser)
- Micael pulls out his Kindle and the article is there, ready to be read
I'm willing to subscribe to a paid service, if that's the only way, but I can't pay much. I'm already subscribing to Medium, and I don't have much left to spend after purchasing my Kindle.
So I wanted to know which services you use, which ones you've tested, how is your article reading workflow, and so on.
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Edits:
- 2020-08-25
- My Kindle is jailbroken, so if there's a method that requires it, I'm already set!
- Added SENDtoREADER
- 2020-08-26
- Push to Kindle just informed me they've updated their service, and it now does a much better job!
- 2020-08-27
- I just purchased the Push to Kindle app, and it works pretty well for sending from the Medium app on Android.
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