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New comment by adhamsalama in "Show HN: Inkfeed – RSS Reader for Kindle"

adhamsalama — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:56:09 +0000

And just after I posted this I discover a horizontal line my Kindle screen... Guess I jinxed it...

Show HN: Inkfeed – RSS Reader for Kindle

adhamsalama — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:44:20 +0000

Hello.

The Kindle is my favorite device and I read a lot on it, but I also like reading RSS feeds, which aren't supported on the Kindle.

This requires me to either download the article and copy it to my Kindle (using Calibre) or sending it via Amazon's Send To Kindle feature. I dislike both options.

I wanted to read RSS feeds just like I read books on my Kindle, so I (with the help of Claude) built a web-based RSS reader that's compatible with the Kindle's experimental browser (tested on PaperWhite 11). It doesn't use any JS frameworks for maximum compatibility.

This RSS reader allows you to read feeds directly on the Kindle's browser, and you can also download the article directly on your Kindle or email it to yourself.

Initially it was a just a simple RSS reader using a CORS proxy, and saved RSS feeds and user preferences like font size to local storage, but the Kindle browser clears local storage after a while, so I decided to add a backend to save them, then I thought why stop here?

So I added the ability to email the article to yourself in case you want to add it to your Kindle library. A user tried Inkfeed and suggested I add the ability to browse Wikipedia, so I implemented that too. You can search for Wikipedia article, read them and download them on directly on your Kindle using Inkfeed.

You can still use it without the backend if you toggle "Backend mode" OFF in the settings, so that it truly does everything on your Kindle (except that it relies on a CORS proxy to fetch feeds).

I deployed the backend (Go + SQLite) on a Hetzner VPS (2 vCPU, 4GB RAM, 40GB SSD) that costs me $4 a month, and SSL is handled by Caddy.

The code is free and open source.

Here's the repo: https://github.com/adhamsalama/inkfeed

I'd love to hear your feedback, and I also need people with older Kindle generations to test the JavaScript compatibility.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325703

Points: 4

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New comment by adhamsalama in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

adhamsalama — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:03:35 +0000

> Cloudflare’s usage of AI has increased by more than 600% in the last three months alone.

So did your outages...

New comment by adhamsalama in "The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility"

adhamsalama — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:06:10 +0000

Doesn't Tauri fix this?

New comment by adhamsalama in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

adhamsalama — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:59:21 +0000

For $3.5, Hetzner gives 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM, 40 GB SSD, and 10 TB of bandwidth.

New comment by adhamsalama in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

adhamsalama — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:41:28 +0000

I'm working on a FOSS Web-based RSS reader for the Kindle that works on the Kindle browser, no need to send articles via Amazon or Calibre!

It's called Inkfeed

https://inkfeed.xyz

https://github.com/adhamsalama/inkfeed-reader

New comment by adhamsalama in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"

adhamsalama — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:00:01 +0000

It would be great if you opened an issue on GitHub (or a PR) so we can fix this. I definitely want this to work on all Kindles including older models. Thank you.

New comment by adhamsalama in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

adhamsalama — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:07:50 +0000

Those black boxes are usually deterministic.

New comment by adhamsalama in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"

adhamsalama — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:04:23 +0000

It's hard for me to debug this because I don't have a Paperwhite 7. I assume it's a JS compatibility issue but not where the exact root cause.

Since the reader is Open Source, can you run it on your machine and view it on your local network to debug and tell me what's the issue so that I can fix it?

New comment by adhamsalama in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"

adhamsalama — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:12:12 +0000

I haven't open sourced the Backend yet, but the reader frontend repo is fully working without the Backend. The Backend is used for emailing yourself and doing file conversion on the Backend instead of the Kindle to save battery.

So without the Backend you're only missing the email feature. All you need is a proxy to bypass CORS.

To be honest I was thinking of keeping the Backend closed source to add subscriptions ($1 per month) to cover the hosting (4$), which means I only need 4 users to break even haha.

Will think about open sourcing the Backend and get back to you.

New comment by adhamsalama in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"

adhamsalama — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:08:52 +0000

Sorry for the delay. Will check it out.

New comment by adhamsalama in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"

adhamsalama — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:34:00 +0000

I discovered this post while reading Hacker News on my Kindle BTW.

New comment by adhamsalama in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"

adhamsalama — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:31:26 +0000

I faced the same issue, but I wanted to use my Kindle to read RSS feeds without relying on my PC, phone or Amazon, so I built a FOSS web-based RSS reader compatible with the Kindle browser. It may make your life a lot simpler.

Link: https://inkfeed.xyz Repo: https://github.com/adhamsalama/inkfeed-reader

New comment by adhamsalama in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

adhamsalama — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:12:56 +0000

A lightweight web-based RSS reader to use on my Kindle.

https://github.com/adhamsalama/simple-rss-reader

New comment by adhamsalama in "Sem – Semantic version control. Entity-level diffs on top of Git"

adhamsalama — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:30:50 +0000

I was just building a POC of something like this a couple of weeks ago. I'm glad someone else already implemented it with support for more languages.

New comment by adhamsalama in "Enable CORS for Your Blog"

adhamsalama — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:11:04 +0000

So, about that...That's how I read RSS feeds on my Kindle.

https://github.com/adhamsalama/simple-rss-reader

New comment by adhamsalama in "Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times"

adhamsalama — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:22:44 +0000

Fair enough. I did consider jailbreaking my Kindle but I am afraid of bricking it.

New comment by adhamsalama in "Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times"

adhamsalama — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:07:27 +0000

Why Jailbreak the Kindle when you can just open its browser and visit a website that shows the arrival times?

The Kindle browser is surprisingly decent, I made Claude Code generate an RSS feed reader compatible with the Kindle browser, with the ability to read full articles (for those feeds that require you to visit the website), and download articles. It also supports Reddit and Google News RSS feed. This is my new favorite way of browsing the internet.

https://github.com/adhamsalama/simple-rss-reader

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adhamsalama — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:24:45 +0000

C is the best language to learn as a beginner.

New comment by adhamsalama in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

adhamsalama — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:39:46 +0000

I did this as a side project awhile ago it was very fun.

https://github.com/adhamsalama/webrtc

I didn't bother adding much styling to the website because I was only interested in the network side of things.