If you’re a fan of Readability, the free online tool that strips articles of unnecessary formatting, and you’d like to use it to get articles onto your Kindle, then Daniel Huckstep’s Kindlebility bookmarklet might be just what you’re looking for.
When Huckstep got his new Kindle earlier this year, he decided to automate the process of moving articles over to his device. His solution uses a modified version of Readability’s javascript; when you click the bookmarklet, it tells a server grab the text from the URL you’re visiting, clean it and convert it, then email it to your Kindle’s email address.
This is the fourth tool like this that I’ve seen in 2011, so you’ve got several options now if you want to experiment. One neat thing about this one is Huckstep has placed the code for Kindlebility on GitHub, so if you’d rather have a private version on your own server you can grab it and start hacking away.
Here are all four of these services, in case you want to compare them:
[found via Teleread]
By BritCrit April 29, 2011 - 8:10 PM
Again possibly only for the K3 – us K2 owners have been forgotten
By Canad-Ian May 2, 2011 - 4:11 PM
I’ve been using Kindlebility and think it’s great, but it stopped working for me today and I can’t reach the website. Anyone else having this problem?
By Chris Walters May 2, 2011 - 4:21 PM
Here’s what the official Twitter feed said on April 28th:
“Some weird email problem, and sending is disabled. Working on it!”
– and then –
“Think I’ll have to take down the site tonight for a while while I work on it…some weird things happening…”
and then the devloper, Daniel H., tweeted this the next day:
“The code of @kindlebility depresses me. Anybody feel like helping with a rewrite/overall?”
Hmm…
(Hey Daniel, I’d help out, but my skillz are limited to hack-n-slash php stunts in WordPress and a few Google-assisted CSS tricks. Can you use that?)
By Canad-Ian May 2, 2011 - 7:15 PM
Thanks for your reply and direction to the Twitter feed. I’ll keep an eye on it.
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