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Just Brilliant
Tried out feedbooks.com and their iNewsStand app last night and I'm totally blown away. This is what I'd dreamed newspaper reading on an e-reader could be. I knew when I got my Iliad a few weeks ago that I wanted to be able to read newspapers on it, but was initially very discouraged. There were lots of papers on-line but most needed a constant internet connection to read them and weren't formatted very well for reading in a small device web browser. The only downloadable newspaper I could find was the Guardian pdf edition. Then I figured out Mobipockets RS feeds and could download a newspaper feed to MobiPockets Reader on my PC and then download it wirelessly from there to my Iliad. Now I was getting somewhere. Still cumbersome though with the PC step and having to download multiple feeds to get all the news items I wanted. Then I came across feedbooks.com and iNewsStand. What a truly brilliant solution. I can pull all the RS news and magazine feeds I want together into my own personal newspaper at feedbooks.com. Then I can download that newspaper in pdf form (customized to the Iliad screen size no less) directly to my Iliad via wi-fi. Once it's on there I can click a single button to update it (via wi-fi) to the latest feeds content.
Hadrien, can't thank you enough for the feedbooks site and the iNewsStand app. And thank you AdamB for porting the iNewsStand app to the Iliad.
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