This morning one enterprising developer hit upon the best way to get me to look at his new service; he followed me on Twitter.
ReadBeam is a rather nice web based blog conversion service. It only supports converting from a limited number of blogs, and it only offers Epub and Kindle. But it also does a nice job and it’s fast, too.
I created an account and requested Ars Technica. It arrived within minutes, and it still have the default cailbre cover. Not a problem; I actually expected that ReadBeam would use calibre. Though I have to say that I’m surprised by the formatting. The articles have a menu included in the heading with links to next/previous article, main menu, and section menu. I didn’t know the automated conversion in calibre had gotten that sophisticated.
There are a bunchaton of services like this now, and this is definitely one worth checking out.
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That looks like a web interface for what anyone with Calibre can do on their own.
ReadBeam makes it easy to read newspapers and blogs on your ereader // Jul 18, 2011 at 1:49 pm
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The few ‘public’ sources are just the beginning. I am currently beta testing the next version that enables anyone to either use public recipes with their own credentials or – go full monty – write and ‘host’ your own recipes at ReadBeam.
You can add me if you like.