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A while ago I made Morning Digest [1] with a similar use case: to read the news on my eReader, and do so prettily. The end result is a daily epub "newspaper", auto-delivered to my device.

It's essentially a complicated script that I run on a server every 24 hours to fetch news from rss lists, and compile them on a (very long!) epub or pdf, complete with index and good typography. It even gets around a few paywalls thanks to a couple tricks, and the output is complete articles with reasonable/good output quality.

I then have a script on my kobo to fetch the daily digest every morning when I open it. On a kindle you could just have a script email the result to it.

Overall I'm really happy with it, it's the perfect solution to read the news for me.

[1]: https://github.com/pinusc/morning-digest



I built something very similar that formats RSS/Twitter/etc feeds into a pdf that gets automatically pushed to my reMarkable tablet 2x daily. It's so much nicer to use than reading news online!


Checking it out and I think you're missing a requirement: readability-lxml maybe?




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