[stevarino]

Hey all, so I love my Kobo for reading books but it would be great if I could read newspaper articles, blog posts, etc on it. Like my ideal is to have the Washington Post (my usual read) frontpage on my Kobo each day, and have whatever articles I'm interested in accessable without having to get up from my coffee in the morning.

I toyed with the experimental web reader but it's clearly not ready for production use.

So is there a way to get this content on the Kobo without "extra" steps?

Note that this is not about pirating or distributing this content in a way that violates any applicable ToS

I am a software developer so I can "be the change I want to see in the world," but just reality checking my thoughts and seeing if anyone has anything similar. I would probably do something like:

- for a given user have a daily "grab this webpage" list.
- have a headless chrome instance that iterates through the pages, prints the articles as PDFs (with heavy styling to make it usable to Kobo)
- transfer the file to the users Google Drive
- if authentication is needed, have a feature to upload session tokens (maybe even a chrome/firefox extension to make it stupid easy)
- any links would be routed through an on-demand print server that uploads the new document, or if it's supported, by the Kono PDF renderer, printed and loaded dynamically so it's just another "chapter"

None of this seems too difficult and it would be a fun project. And a free tier of several articles per day would be doable.

So any thoughts? Does this already exist? Would others be interested?