Show HN: News2reader – Readable articles from HN and Pocket on your e-reader

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3 years ago

Hi! I recently became the owner of an e-reader, and wanted an easy way to get web articles from Hacker News and my bookmarks onto the device, on-demand, for easy reading.

I'm using KOReader (https://koreader.rocks/) on my device, and like lots of e-book readers it allows browsing online catalogs of books (e.g. from sources like Project Gutenberg) using the OPDS protocol. news2reader is a self-hosted Node application that acts as a "virtual" catalog, connecting to link aggregators instead of a local database. When you select a web article from the list, the application will (try to) fetch the page, generate a "readable" version with images, and serve that up as an EPUB on-the-fly.

I've found it works pretty well for my needs, but improvements and enhancements (e.g. support for more aggregator services) are welcomed as Pull Requests. If you want to know more, the README has screenshots and setup instructions (using Docker or pure Node+Yarn). Hope it's useful to some of you!