as i’m resurrecting my old original Nook, i’m looking for ways to use it for reading online stuff offline. rss feeds, newsletters, etc. probably leveraging Calibre.
i want to treat it more like sitting down to read the paper, with a controlled flow of info rather than bouncing between sources with all the random distractions that come with doing anything in the browser.
i also want to use that easy on the eyes e-ink display more often.
@bunnyhero i still have my Sony Clie. loved using that little thing. it’s still a great form factor.
@bunnyhero but yeah. calibre is how i’m syncing the Nook anyway. wondering now if i can get the newsletters to my inbox into an rss for calibre to ingest.
i really wish i could afford that nice big Kobo Aura One as the old Nook does have a significant screen real estate limit.
still, i have it and it still works. the battery doesn’t last as long as it used to but it’s still very serviceable.
shit. now i’m lying in bed at 2:30am all excited about setting up one of my email accounts as an rss feed via ifttt or zapier and having calibre running the results daily and syncing that to the nook. probably via the macbook but possibly could crank up the old windows box.
i should be sleeping.
sorry. that fan you hear is my brain trying to keep itself from overheating while using all its available processes at once.
@pixelpaperyarn Makes me miss my old Nook.
First gen nook had wifi and android 2.0, yeah?
I seem to remember installing an RSS reader on it, back in the day, but I could be mistaken.
Recently, I've been toying with aggregating all the RSS feeds I follow in to a single (very simple) web page (and then automatically converting that to an epub or mobi file, and automatically syncing it to my kindle or kobo, but I don't have wifi on either of those...)
@ajroach42 it does have wifi, but the browser painfully slow and eink isn't make for it. but what you're describing is exactly the kind of thing i'm looking to do as well. looks like it wouldn't be hard to get gmail to send to rss for the newsletters i get.
@pixelpaperyarn i think calibre has a feature for just that, but i haven't played with it much. this also reminds me how yeeeeaaarrss ago i'd use avantgo and a palm pilot to do the same thing. i'd download news items to it to read on my train commute :)