It’s no secret that the Amazon Kindle makes for a great eBook reader. It even makes for a passable mobile computer. What Amazon doesn’t tell you is that it makes for the best newsstand ever, using open source software package Calibre. Here’s how to power up your Kindle.
1. Download and install Calibre. Plug your Kindle in and let it be recognized.
2. Fire up Calibre, and find the Fetch News panel.
3. Find all the publications you want to take with you, say, before a flight. Click Download now to add them to your queue.
That might be enough to get you started, but if you want to REALLY amp things up, click on the little arrow next to Fetch News, and choose Create Custom News Source.
4. Select Add/Update recipe, start a new recipe, give it a title, and start adding the blogs that you love most to the recipe. Now you’re making your own power newspaper of your favorite blog authors.
5. Once the new recipe is done, go back to the Fetch News tab and find your recipe under the Custom entry. Select Download now and you’ve got those blogs ready to go.
Bonus: Calibre auto-syncs with your Kindle, so it uploads all your newspapers and blogs via USB automatically.
6. Fire up your Kindle and voila! Instant, free news and blogs to go.
Caveats: Calibre ONLY works via USB. No wireless here – if you want wireless, you have to use and pay for Amazon’s service. Also, it doesn’t work with the iPhone app, only the Kindle device. Calibre also works with the Sony eBook reader, too.
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