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How To Automatically Deliver Articles To Your Favorite E-reader Using Platypush
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RSS feeds are a largely underestimated feature of the web nowadays — at least outside the circles of geeks.
They’re much more omnipresent than many think (every single respectable news website provides at least one feed). And they empower users with the possibility of creating their own news feeds and boards through aggregators, without relying on the mercy of a cloud-run algorithm. Their structured nature (under the hood an RSS feed is just a structured XML) offers the possibility to build automation pipelines that deliver the content we want wherever we want, whenever we want, and in whichever format we want.
IFTTT is a popular option to build custom logic on RSS feeds. It makes it very intuitive to build relatively complex rules such as “send me a weekly digest with The Economist articles published in the latest issue” or “send a telegram message with the digest from the NYT every day at 6 a.m.” or “send a notification to my mobile whenever XKCD publishes new comics.”
In my opinion, however, it’s thanks to internet-connected e-readers, such as the Kindle or MobiScribe, as well as web services like…
