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Offline News and RSS

2025-06-10 by Cameron

It was in the news recently that Firefox has done away with the read later service Pocket. I actually liked Pocket, I thought it was half of a really nice idea. But they didn't have the missing half, for my purposes, which was RSS. I have a goal of a smooth, offline RSS eink reader. Pocket was lovely because it would sync with the Kobo reader. If it had RSS and the ability to save articles, and could export them to Kobo, I would have been obsessed. Maybe someone will implement that one day.

An easy Way to save longer online articles to Epub, the way Pocket does, would be a nice feature. Currently, the best I know is a browser extension like Dot Epub, which exports a web page to an epub file which can then be added to calibre and an ereader.

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