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Old 12-26-2011, 11:54 AM   #1
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Is it possible to Fetch News without Calibre?
I love Calibre who partners with my kindle as a wonderful team. Recently I learned to use the Fetch News function of Calibre and can't imagine life without it any more. Soon I will be far from home for some weeks and am wondering if there is a web based service that collect and send news once a day similar as calibre would do?

Having Calibre on USB will not really do because I may be far from the next internet coffee and can only use cell phone on wifi.

Any suggestions?
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Old 12-26-2011, 12:30 PM   #2
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You might be able to use Yahoo pipes.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.in...d3e51ba3890edd is an example.

You could also use something like an RSS to email service... like http://www.feedmyinbox.com/ to send RSS to your kindle email address. Although I think Calibre supports web sites without RSS... most news sites do have RSS feeds.

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does calibre run on a computer that you could leave on while you are gone? If so, you could have it just email the news to your kindle...
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Old 12-27-2011, 08:31 AM   #4
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Thanks for the replies!

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Didn't know about Yahoo Pipes yet. Looks interesting together with FeedMyInbox. But on first attempt I was not able to bundle the articles for offline reading the same way as Calibre would do. Also I am in a kind of no chicken/mo egg deadlock with authetnification of the xxx@kindle.com email. For FeedMyInbox to accept the Email it will need a reply. And for kindle.com to accept the sender it will need a reply. Of course I could circumvent that by having a gmail relay in between...



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Having an installation of Calibre running online would be great. I was even consideringh to have the computer power up by a timer and then have calibre start automatic. But then again nobody will be able to watch it for a long time. Doesn't feel right to me. That's why I was looking for a 'Calibre Online I'll pack the news and send them for you' service. Wouldn't care if that would be a payed service (if reasonable priced). Maybe a way for calibre to generate money on top of donations?
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Old 12-27-2011, 01:03 PM   #5
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