Nate at The Digital Reader has recently found two new websites that let you turn online content into ereader content. The first, NEWSTOEBOOK.COM, will take an RSS feed and convert it into either an epub (Nook/Kobo) or mobi (Kindle) file. The other one, SENDtoREADER (what’s with all these caps?), provides a bookmarklet that you click to send the web page you’re viewing straight to your Kindle via a wireless connection.
SENDtoREADER is actually very similar to the “Send to Kindle” Chrome extension that was released a couple of months ago, and that now also works on Safari, Firefox and IE. I haven’t compared the services so I can’t recommend one over the other. The biggest difference I can see is that SENDtoREADER requires registration, and in return it keeps a backup copy of everything you send so that you can download the content again in the future. Send to Kindle doesn’t mention any sort of backup but doesn’t require an account.
Update 11 April 2011: Here’s one more, called Kindlebility.
If these services don’t strike your fancy, there are plenty of other ways to get web content on your Kindle. My favorite combo is still Instapaper and Ephemera, but that’s because I’m a USB connection sort of guy.
[via The Digital Reader and eBookNewser]
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By BritCrit March 28, 2011 - 8:05 AM
Is there anything that is NOT for Kindle 3?
I used Instapaper for a long time and then now it won’t work because it is only for K3.
I’m very disappointed!
By BritCrit March 28, 2011 - 8:05 AM
Sorry – I have a K2
By newstoebook April 15, 2011 - 4:45 PM
britcrit – with newstoebook.com it doesn’t matter which kindle version you have. it just gives you a mobi file to read.
By newstoebook April 15, 2011 - 4:49 PM
it also worths to mention newstoebook.com’s support of Google Reader, which is essential for an avid RSS feed reader wanting to get his feeds offline.
By Sergey Pozhilov July 23, 2011 - 12:57 PM
The new version of Sendtoreader allows you to download .mobi files as well. Also users can now share their .mobi documents on Facebook and Twiter (that does not affect on user accounts’ privacy by the way). And finally, Sendtoreader can now be integrated into Google Reader.