HN to Kindle Reviews and details

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• Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite adds bigger screen, longer battery life and USB-C

  There's also the excellent ebook-convert command line tool as part of Calibre which can be used to convert between the formats[1], I use it convert HN content to Kindle e-book for my https://hntokindle.com. [1] https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert.html. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Digital Minimalism: What are the alternative to screen time?

  Try printed news papers instead of news apps or sites, Apart from addressing your goals of Digital Minimalism the printed newspapers often have robust editorial practices if the publishing house has been in existence for say >100 years. > Kindle might be OK In case you want to read HN on Kindle too, I got you covered[1]. [1] https://hntokindle.com. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Web app to parse Kindle's My Clippings.txt

  This should work well with my https://hntokindle.com , Thank you! Source: over 2 years ago

• Tell HN: Amazon Kindle's browser is not experimental anymore

  I saw in your profile that you are using https://hntokindle.com to read HN on Kindle, Can you read the story as well or just the comments? - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• The Middle East is running out of water, and parts of it becoming uninhabitable

  I read HN on Kindle[1], So low bloat websites like these are always a pleasure to read on Kindle's forever experimental browser. The websites needn't be text only, Reducing useless elements like Techcrunch's content wrap can go a long way to improve readability and accessibility. [1] https://hntokindle.com/ (Disclaimer: I built this). - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• I wanted to read Hacker News on Kindle, So I created this

  You can read Hacker News on your kindle too, Visit hntokindle.com! Source: over 2 years ago

• Glued to Your Phone? Here's How to Rethink Your Relationship with Social Media

  Agreed, But FOMO home page content can be still be overwhelming as the rate of change of new content is high. Thankfully HN has 'best stories' feature. So to reduce the addiction by slowing things down further, I started reading best HN stories on my kindle. Apart from sweet e-paper goodness it also allows me to assimilate the knowledge in comments which we all know is the real gold using clipping. I've hosted it... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Tesseract OCR

  I read HN on my kindle[1] to assimilate knowledge from the comments using its highlighting, clipping features. But commenting is painful on Kindle's 'forever experimental browser' so I take a screenshot and when I connect it to the computer the to-comment stack on a network to-do list is updated with a ready to visit HN story URL using query from the text on the screenshot parsed using Tesseract. [1]... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• PSA: Add dark mode to your sites, or at least let the browsers do it for you

  Isn't media query 'prefers-color-scheme: dark' and 'prefers-color-scheme: light' with respective color changes is all that's required? Recently added it for https://startuptoolchain.com on request and for https://hntokindle.com on my own for functionality i.e. The kindle images switch for light/dark mode respectively. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago