Read Hacker News on Kindle (2022)
Daniel Nguyen created KTool to send online content to Kindle for offline reading, focusing on Hacker News discussions. It supports various content types, maintains comment styles, and enhances the reading experience.
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The text discusses KTool, a tool created by Daniel Nguyen to send online content to Kindle for offline reading. The motivation behind KTool was to enable readers to access Hacker News discussions, including comments, offline on e-ink screens. KTool allows for fast and easy conversion of articles, maintains comment styles, and supports Kindle features like notes, highlights, and syncing with mobile apps. Users can send various online content to Kindle using KTool, such as blog posts, Twitter threads, and newsletters. Daniel Nguyen's personal experience with vision issues and a desire to reduce screen time inspired the development of KTool. The tool aims to enhance the reading experience by providing a convenient way to consume digital content on Kindle devices.
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10 commentsThought I'd share again since I needed it, found it and thought it was a perfectly simple and efficient tool. I liked that I could download the ePub directly instead of figuring out how to allow KTool to send files to my Kindle when I could do it easily myself.
It would be so much more seamless as an app. I'm surprised Amazon never opened up an app ecosystem on the kindle.
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