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A Kindle integration was a natural extension to my feed reader. I had to learn a couple of things to get it working, so it seemed interesting to document the implementation process.
In practice, I use feedi as a mix of news feed, content finder, and organizer; I prefer to send longer blog posts or essays to my Kindle, so I can get back to them when I’m offline: in bed, in the bathroom, at a cafe or on the bus. I found a Python library that “impersonated” an Amazon client and wrote my first implementation around it, but it turned out to be brittle: it required storing device credentials in the database and manually authenticating every few days, which hurt the user experience, ultimately discouraging me from using the feature at all. At a high level, I needed to: fetch the HTML from the website, extract the cleaned-up article content from it, package it into an EPUB file, and attach it to an email to my Kindle device.
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