Right now I use Read You on my phone to get RSS feeds and I read articles on my browser but I want to cut the time I stare at my phone throughout the day so I came up with this system:

Once a week I will look at all the feeds I follow on my PC RSS reader, select the ones I want to read during the next week and save them / export them (possibly in PDF or ePUB?) so that I can put them on my old Kindle (that has no internet access) and read them only using the kindle during the week.

This will drastically reduce the time I use my phone to first scroll and select articles and then to actually read them. Looking at a screen all day for work and also looking at a screen (phone) in my free time is not good for me and I want to change that.

If no RSS reader has that option, does anyone know of another program or firefox extension that would let me “export” web pages as pdfs or epubs?

  • DebianGuy@lemmy.ml
    3·
    25 days ago

    I have used QuiteRSS extensively, but switched to RSSGuard recently.

    No major issue with QuiteRSS, but I like how RSSGuard deals with rendering the article without any need for custom CSS.

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
    1·
    28 days ago

    The most feature-rich RSS reader that I’m aware of, is QuiteRSS. I don’t actually know, though, if it has PDF/ePUB export…

    • Ashley@lemmy.ca
      0·
      17 days ago

      I use it with miniflux to sync between my iPhone, Linux phone, and desktop/laptop

      • kixik@lemmy.ml
        1·
        17 days ago

        Ohh, do you have miniflux self hosted somewhere so it does the feeds collection, and then on newsflash you hook with the miniflux reader?

        What I do to sync (I don’t read feeds on the phone) between desktops is to rsync these 3 dirs:

        ~/.config/news-flash
~/.local/share/news-flash
~/.local/share/news_flash

        That so I don’t lose the feed subscriptions neither the history of what I have already looked at, neither what I’ve kept as starred (there are interesting feeds I want to keep). If miniflux had sort of a client, similar to newsFlash, but that set everything in miniflux rather than locally, so that no matter different desktops (even phones) will have the same starred kept feeds, and the whole history and the like on miniflux… There’s a python client, but I don’t know if it gets any closer to newsFlash. I guess having miniflux, one can hook to it through any web browser as well, but I really like newsFlash interface, hehe.

        The sad thing is needing to somehow keep miniflux running somewhere, which is not feasible for me, and perhaps for others, but it’s interesting…

        • Ashley@lemmy.ca
          1·
          14 days ago

          Yep, Miniflux syncs starred/read/unread articles as well, I sync it with NetNewsWire on my iPhone and it supports all the same features.

          I might actually do what you’ve done with rsync but for Pipeline. AFAIK it doesn’t have any native sync support.

  • faultypidgeon@programming.dev
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    28 days ago

    Might not be for you if you are not a TUI person, but I like newsboat. I also use it to watch youtube and listen to podcasts (with mpv). For pdf/epub export you can probably script something that does this.

    • faultypidgeon@programming.dev
      1·
      28 days ago

      […] script something that does this.

      Theoretically this pandoc one liner already does it, but depending on the website the layouting is going to be trash.

      pandoc -i 'https://the-website-your-rss-items.link.to/' -f html -t epub -o out.epub