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Old 12-03-2006, 08:03 PM   #1
neilm2
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Create a personal newspaper for the Sony Reader with xFruits + rss2book

If you're using rss2book, it's pretty easy to create your own personal newspaper for the Sony Reader with a feed aggregator like xFruits.

I went to xfruits.com and made a single combo feed of philly.com local news, Christian Science Monitor world news, a Weather.com philadelphia forecast, a topix.net feed on the New England Patriots and a Dapper feed I made of the Sony Connect Top 10 ebooks. Rss2book does the rest making a pdf (with table of contents) and synching it every day to my Sony Reader.

Here's the xfruits feed I created...

http://xfruits.com/neilm2/?id=11065

And here's a PDF rss2book created from the feed...

rss2book - mydailypaper.pdf (130.1 KB)

I did this as a proof of concept - and it's a little rough - but it might grow into something I use everyday.

What do you folks think, does the Reader have a future as a newspaper?
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File Type: pdf rss2book - mydailypaper.pdf (130.1 KB, 1710 views)

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