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Initially, our favorite company engaged only in the production of computers, but with time line of devices has been greatly expanded to include many more areas of our lives. We were tough players, phones, tablets, set-top boxes, and soon there will be also watch. The only device on the occurrence of which in the Apple ecosystem should not expect - this e-ink reader. The company has its own solutions to meet the readers' needs of users, so the fans "Electronic ink" no choice, how to handle competitors, of which there are now lot. In e-ink screens have their advantages and appreciated by many, including myself. In this post I will talk about the challenges I faced and wished to transfer the everyday function of reading on the Kindle, and how I was able to solve them.
I will not go into a discussion of the benefits of e-ink displays on the LCD, many argue that the past is no worse than the eyes of both screens are equally tired. My opinion is based on my own experience, which showed that after spending 8-10 hours for poppy-screen (Of course, with breaks and normal lighting), I could not read a book in the evening with aypada due eye fatigue. However, with the Kindle - I did not feel it. I do not know what it was, maybe due to the fact that the eye works differently with different screens, and so beneficial affect "change of scene", but the fact remains - to read something longer than a tweet I was much more comfortable on Kindle. I have had several Kindle, and even at a time when they did not have the backlight vseravno I thought they were more convenient than the iPad. Now, I use Kindle Paperwhite (first generation) and consider it the perfect device for reading, except that there are no automatic adjustment of the backlight level in it, but these are trifles.
Why is all you need to do
It would seem that may be easier - to plug Kindle Maca BOAD in his books and read on your health. I agree with all the books is simple, but what about the other content, because almost all the fun we learn today from the Internet and social networks: your favorite websites, twitter, rss General, etc. Our task - to quickly and easily send it all in Kindle. First I want to tell you how I organized your content. Maybe you'll learn something new, or tell me what you can improve in my technique.
As I consume content
I'll tell you about his method of content consumption, you it can be a little bit different, but the essence is about the same. We each have sources of information that we read, mostly books sites, blogs, and various specialized portals. I think most people Fallaway them on Twitter or signed by another favorite social networks, where they broadcast their content. There are a variety of applications and aggregators, but about them later.
I use Twitter and the most interesting for me to learn from there (by the way, can I zafollovitI go there sometimes and writing;)). During the day we are all busy, but in any look into Twitter every half an hour, or when given free time. Small materials we read at once by opening them immediately on Twitter or in Safari, and more articles and all interesting reading - add to favorites to come back to them later. And, basically it comes from mobile devices, often with the iPhone.
RSS
Unlike Twitter, where I get and keep track of the most current news in rss-tape I are sources that are not me need frequent updates - here I added a variety of Western and Verge blogs like Ars Technica, some personal subscriptions and other That's interesting. That is, there are already more thorough and thoughtful reading. The good side of RSS, this is what we read them through special applications in which there are various options sheringa.
Aggregators Zite, Flipboard and other
A final source of information I have, this aggregators. Their biggest advantage is that you can specify the subject you're interested and have materials on it from sources that you do not know or those who write on this subject is very rare.
How to organize the sending of content in the Kindle
Some applications have the ability to send directly to the Kindle, but not all. But all have a variety of services in shering deferred reading. Many of them (Readability, Instapaper) support sending articles to the Kindle, in others it is realized using extensions and plugins. I will show you the techniques that I use to their sources. I will try to tell you everything I know.
Twitter is quite simple. I add tweets with links to interesting articles, which do not have time to read on the move, add to favorites, and later, mostly on weekends, take the time to analyze them. Not always in them are exclusively texts, sometimes come across a video, photos, or just something that you need to add to your favorites. So I check my favorites, opening the link in Safari on the Mac, and I read the posts containing media. Texts as I go to the Kindle using Send to Kindle extension of Readability.
It is convenient because it is a bookmarklet and that works even in mobile Safari on the iPhone and iPad. Install the bookmarklet is very simple - move this linkAnd drag it to the bookmarks bar Send to Kindle button. After that, pressing the Send to Kindle in the bookmarks bar (or use the shortcut Cmd + tab number), we will send the current page directly to the Kindle. There are two aspects. The first time you are asked to send email to your Kindle, which can be found in the Kindle Settings (Settings ▸ Device options ▸ Personalize Your Kindle ▸ Send-to-Kindle E-mail). In addition, you will need to add to the list of allowed [email protected] email here (Since Amazon protects you from spam and does not allow to send to Kindle documents with some horrible addresses).
This method offers the "indirect" dispatch and involves an intermediate step with Safari. It can be avoided if you use twitter-enabled client with Readability, such as Tweetbot. Also, do not forget that the service Readability offers a function for sending digests that are sent every day and manually. It will be useful if you read a lot of articles and is very convenient for small materials, as they will be grouped and displayed in a book, rather than individually.
Similarly, we can use instead Instapaper Readability. It's all the same, including the bookmarklets and sending digests. But I'm still focused on the Readability.
RSS
To this end, the source of all depends on the client, through which you view your tape. Popular Reeder and Feedly support mentioned above Readability and Instapaper, so that, in fact, this way It involves sending the content in deferred reading service with its further transportation to the Kindle (manually or as part of Digest). Once Reeder could send articles directly to the Kindle, but for some reason, this feature was removed. Rapid method of sending content from the RSS-reader right in the Kindle, I do not come up, but as I read in the tape mainly on the Mac, then reopen the desired article in Safari, press Cmd + 6 (my shortcut to send to Kindle), not annoying.
Zite, Flipboard and other aggregators
all too simply in the mediation. Developers care about us and provide various options sheringa, including 99.9% of cases there Readability and Instapaper, or at least one of them. For example, in Zite no Readability, but there is Instapaper. In Flipboard has both, so no problem.
other methods
Sometimes it happens that in the site or application does not Readability and Instapaper, as they are highly directional reader, but there is for example the same the Pocket, which is now very popular. What can be done in this case?
Calibre
Well, firstly, you can use Calibre, Adjust the assembly digests and sending them straight to your Kindle. To do this:
- Click on the arrow next to the gather news and choose Add the correct news source
- press Configure built-in processor and add Pocket
- click gather news and section custom select Pocket
- Enter your login / password and specify the necessary settings
Now, every morning (or at any given time) Calibre will collect and send you a digest of the latest Kindle Pocket articles. Yes, do not forget to mention in your address settings Calibre Kindle and enter your email, that will send the digests (This email should be in the list of trusted Amazon). The only negative, the way - Calibre must be running at the time of content processing, otherwise the job will not be executed.
IFTTT
You can still use the recipes IFTTT. A lot of them, here are some options.
- Sending articles from Pocket in the Kindle (With the addition of a tag). All articles from the Pocket, Kindle marked tag will be sent to Readability and then to your Kindle, as part of the daily digest.
- Submitting articles of Feedly in the Kindle (With the addition of a tag). Marked the selected tag from your article Feedly will be sent to the Kindle.
- We send this page to IFTTT and get an article on the Kindle. It's simple, we send a link to article (or book) and get it on your Kindle. Do not forget to add your address to the trusted list.
Which is why I started all this, and what the benefits
Actually, the main advantage of all these manipulations is that I can receive and read me the right content to the screen The Kindle, by which I do not get tired eyes, even when reading in the dark (though it is wrong, but sometimes I do). This fact alone justifies all the troubles, though they will need to make and just once.
Another advantage is that the articles are loaded into the Kindle and then I can read them anywhere, even in the absence of the Internet. Also, thanks to this method, I do not want to fight with his wife and young son behind aypad that in our family one at all - all you need I quietly read on the Kindle.
It seems not forgotten and told all right, but if you have any questions - you can ask them comments. Pleasant and useful reading you!
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