I built a service that emails your Scribe a daily edition and grades the pages you ma

[KrisKindle]

Hi all — I've been building something for the Scribe and I'd value this forum's take on it, since everyone here knows exactly how locked down the device is.

The Scribe accepts a PDF sent to its @kindle.com address and basically nothing else. That one channel is the whole idea behind Daily Scribe (dailyscribe.ca): you pick from a catalogue of daily "services," and each morning it fetches them, renders each to PDF, binds them into one document, and emails that to your device on a schedule you set.

The part I actually care about is the return path. Every generated PDF carries a short routing token in its footer text. If you handwrite on a page and use the Scribe's "email" share to send it back, an inbound webhook reads that token, trims the document to just the pages for that service, and runs them through a vision model for marking. Right now that's wired up for a "kanji a day" sheet where you write the characters, mail the page, and it tracks which ones you're getting right over time. The plan is to generalize it (D and D game, crossword answers, habit logs, and so on).

Services working today:

• News set like a newspaper (RTÉ / BBC / CBC, choose your sections)
• A fresh write-in crossword each day, answer key on page 2
• A fresh write-in crossword each day, answer key on page 2
• A plain-language morning briefing generated from your own Home Assistant instance
• A "digest" that bundles whatever you've enabled into one edition with a linked contents page

Under the hood it's a TypeScript web application (Next.js / MongoDB / Vercel), Resend for in- and outbound mail, @react-pdf/renderer + pdf-lib for the documents, and each service is a self-contained plugin behind one interface so adding one doesn't touch the core.

A few honest notes:

• Invite-only right now while I make delivery solid across time zones. There's a waitlist; I approve in small batches, usually within a day.
• Free during the beta. It may get paid tiers later to cover costs, if people like it.
• You whitelist one sender address (my@dailyscribe.ca) in Amazon's Approved Personal Document list once: that's the only Amazon-side setup.
• Not affiliated with Amazon or Kindle in any way. "Kindle" and "Kindle Scribe" are Amazon's.

Demo video (~2 min, opening a real edition on a Scribe and paging through it): https://youtu.be/ajOA1lpTtQI

Sample edition PDF: https://dailyscribe.ca/uploads/daily...ple-digest.pdf

Site / waitlist: https://dailyscribe.ca/?ref=mobileread

What I'd genuinely like feedback on: does the mail-it-back-and-grade-it loop sound useful, or is it a gimmick? What service would actually make you want a daily edition? And any war stories on Amazon throttling or silently dropping personal-document mail from ashared sender as volume grows: that's my current worry.

Thanks for reading.

[JSWolf]

The sample shows the site still needs work. The front ToC does not work at all. The ToC for the individual articles takes you tot he site, not the articles in the PDF. What we have is a ToC in the form of PDF.

This really needs to be redone so you have the articles in the PDF and not external. Otherwise, it would be easier to go to the site directly.

Nobody will pay for a glorified ToC.

[KrisKindle]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The sample shows the site still needs work. The front ToC does not work at all. The ToC for the individual articles takes you tot he site, not the articles in the PDF. What we have is a ToC in the form of PDF.

This really needs to be redone so you have the articles in the PDF and not external. Otherwise, it would be easier to go to the site directly.

Nobody will pay for a glorified ToC.

Thanks for checking it out, Jon! The idea is that the app relies on the kindle's built in browser to open the articles. The PDF would grow too large if it included all the articles. The selling point is that you can pick the categories and news sites you are interested in quickly and easily without having to navigate the kindle's browser. I'm sorry you think that's a glorified Table of Contents