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Best RSS Reader for Linux? Bonus if it has PDF/epub export (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by linucs@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] thegreekgeek@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

How are you selecting feeds to download? If you use a cloud/self hosted RSS service you can get a feed of articles you star. From there you can use a desktop feed reader to download the starred feed to your kindle:

Calibre can download news articles as .epub files, and supports transferring them to the kindle via USB. It can extract webpage text from non full-content feeds in a customizable way with Python.
KOreader's RSS feature stores feed items as .epub files as well, but it's not as customizable. It does support full text extraction, but you don't get any options to customize the output as far as I can tell.

[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow I'm already using Calibre but didn't know about that feature! Awesome, will look into it, thanks!

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I second Calibre. You can configure it to roll all the articles into a single epub too, so they don't clutter your ereader. I tested it out recently and it works really well. I haven't had the discipline to do it yet but I love the idea of connecting to the internet once a week to download content and messages and then going back offline.

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