[ILUG] Reading material for travel

[ollie at eillo.org]

 On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:32:10 +0000, Colin Rooney wrote:
> I haven't tried it myself ... but what about
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-it-later/
>
> Colin
>
>
> On 16 February 2012 12:27,  <ollie at eillo.org> wrote:
>> Yes,
>>
>> It'll definitely be something like that - I want the stuff waiting 
>> in my
>> email.
>>
 Certainly usefull, but I wont have the same laptop.

 Current plan is to email each new article to my mail inbox.

 - Oliver



>> So maybe calibre if it does what I want or as some people suggested 
>> wget.
>>
>> Pulled off the web:
>>
>> wget -q -O- "http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-podcast.xml" | 
>> grep -o
>> '<enclosure url="[^"]*' | grep -o '[^"]*$' | xargs wget -c
>>
>> Haven’t tested the above but it would be a good starting point.
>>
>> - Oliver
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:12:21 +0000, Simon Whittaker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Is there any relatively easy way collect this stuff from popular 
>>>> sites
>>>>  and dump it in a file, in a format that allows easy reading at a 
>>>> later
>>>>  stage?
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if it's exactly what you're after but have you looked 
>>> at
>>> Calibre? It has a great feature to download items from specific
>>> sources(you can also add your own) which can then be emailed to you 
>>> on
>>> a regular basis. It will convert into lots of different formats 
>>> such
>>> as epub/pdf. I then email these off to my kindle but could
>>> theoretically be any address. Therefore, if you're only able to get
>>> internet access once in a while you could have a lot of them 
>>> waiting
>>> for you.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps
>>>
>>> Simon
>>
>>
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