Pinkind

Send your pinboard bookmarks / links to kindle

Workflow

As the title says the code was written to send articles to my kindle. Pinkindle generates epub's but kindle can't read epub -- so how does it work?

I use following workflow to get around this.

1. Use pinkindle to generate epub
2. Use ebook-convert from Calibre to convert it into .mobi file.
3. Email it to kindle ebook sync service (whatever it is called)

Usage

Pinkind takes web article links, downloads them and builds epub out of the article.

python epub.py links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley  \
	https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/

Pinkind can also get links direct from a pinboard account. In that case provide API key and tag to filter out links.

python epub.py pinboard --tag kindle <API_KEY>

Todo

Article formatting is still hit or miss. Currently we use newspaper3k to parse articles, try using Mercury parser.

Thanks

Started thinking about this after seeing Kindlizer by QuietMisdreavus