I started using Instapaper a looooooooooo . . . ooooooooong time ago for aggregating things I wanted to read later. However, less and less of the content I want to read is actually in the feed or article that I have at hand to forward to Instapaper (via my personal Instapaper e-mail address). So what happens is that I go to my Instapaper feed, sync it to my Nook, for example, so I can read it offline, but when I sit down to read it, all I get are headlines and excerpts; all of the meat of the articles lay elsewhere on some network, so I still need a data connection in order to access it. Mission failed.
So, it would be great to find a way to not only sync a given feed (or, like my Instapaper, a feed of feeds) with a device or offline app, but to spider that feed and keep all of the content together.
Surely this exists! Or will I have to write it myself?
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Have you tried newsrob on your droid? I can star something for later and depending on my feed settings it will d/l the whole page. Not sure if that is a feature of the free or paid version as I've had the paid forever.
Neat!!! I tried it a while ago, but I don't remember that feature being there. Will definitely check it out. Thanks, Cori!
Looking at Calibre (http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/news.html). I've used it to move PDFs to Nook. Now it looks like their recipes API might automatically fetch linked article content.
Neat! Looks like Calibre can do this:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153507
Their recipes API includes an attribute called "recursions" that indicates the "number of levels of links to follow on article webpages".
So, configure Calibre to gather the content (including PDFs, ebooks, etc.) on your PC, then move it to your ebook reader.
I first used Calibre because I had some Google books and PDFs that I wanted to put on my Nook.
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