Libra Colour newspapers and other articles on kobo

stevarino · 04-26-2025, 09:11 PM

Hey all, so I love my Kobo for reading books but it would be great if I could read newspaper articles, blog posts, etc on it. Like my ideal is to have the Washington Post (my usual read) frontpage on my Kobo each day, and have whatever articles I'm interested in accessable without having to get up from my coffee in the morning.

I toyed with the experimental web reader but it's clearly not ready for production use.

So is there a way to get this content on the Kobo without "extra" steps?

Note that this is not about pirating or distributing this content in a way that violates any applicable ToS

I am a software developer so I can "be the change I want to see in the world," but just reality checking my thoughts and seeing if anyone has anything similar. I would probably do something like:

- for a given user have a daily "grab this webpage" list.
- have a headless chrome instance that iterates through the pages, prints the articles as PDFs (with heavy styling to make it usable to Kobo)
- transfer the file to the users Google Drive
- if authentication is needed, have a feature to upload session tokens (maybe even a chrome/firefox extension to make it stupid easy)
- any links would be routed through an on-demand print server that uploads the new document, or if it's supported, by the Kono PDF renderer, printed and loaded dynamically so it's just another "chapter"

None of this seems too difficult and it would be a fun project. And a free tier of several articles per day would be doable.

So any thoughts? Does this already exist? Would others be interested?

PeterT · 04-26-2025, 11:09 PM

Have you checked out calibre and it's recipes?

At one point Kobo did have a newspaper / magazine subscription service but this was discontinued many many years ago.

Aleron Ives · 04-26-2025, 11:40 PM

What formats does the Washington Post offer for the e-edition? That's basically your starting point. If they offer a PDF replica of the broadsheet newspaper, then you could just load it directly onto your Kobo. If they require you to use an app that only gives you images of the physical pages, then your task becomes much more difficult.

04-26-2025, 09:11 PM	#1
stevarino Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2025 Device: Kobo Libra Colour	newspapers and other articles on kobo Hey all, so I love my Kobo for reading books but it would be great if I could read newspaper articles, blog posts, etc on it. Like my ideal is to have the Washington Post (my usual read) frontpage on my Kobo each day, and have whatever articles I'm interested in accessable without having to get up from my coffee in the morning. I toyed with the experimental web reader but it's clearly not ready for production use. So is there a way to get this content on the Kobo without "extra" steps? Note that this is not about pirating or distributing this content in a way that violates any applicable ToS I am a software developer so I can "be the change I want to see in the world," but just reality checking my thoughts and seeing if anyone has anything similar. I would probably do something like: - for a given user have a daily "grab this webpage" list. - have a headless chrome instance that iterates through the pages, prints the articles as PDFs (with heavy styling to make it usable to Kobo) - transfer the file to the users Google Drive - if authentication is needed, have a feature to upload session tokens (maybe even a chrome/firefox extension to make it stupid easy) - any links would be routed through an on-demand print server that uploads the new document, or if it's supported, by the Kono PDF renderer, printed and loaded dynamically so it's just another "chapter" None of this seems too difficult and it would be a fun project. And a free tier of several articles per day would be doable. So any thoughts? Does this already exist? Would others be interested?

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04-26-2025, 11:09 PM	#2
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,258 Karma: 78869092 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	Have you checked out calibre and it's recipes? At one point Kobo did have a newspaper / magazine subscription service but this was discontinued many many years ago.

04-26-2025, 11:40 PM	#3
Aleron Ives Wizard Posts: 1,637 Karma: 16302664 Join Date: Sep 2022 Device: Kobo Libra 2	What formats does the Washington Post offer for the e-edition? That's basically your starting point. If they offer a PDF replica of the broadsheet newspaper, then you could just load it directly onto your Kobo. If they require you to use an app that only gives you images of the physical pages, then your task becomes much more difficult.

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