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A Desktop App for Your E-Ink Kindle

How HN reacted

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Roasted

Half or more of the comments are critical

2 positive, 4 neutral or mixed, 10 critical. Score -0.33

LikedGood idea, especially getting highlights off the device

ObjectedDesign looks like Calibre or unpolished

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138points

34comments

#328of 2,195 in 2019

Top 15%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.33.

Performance: 0 for, 5 againstDesign: 0 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

Good idea, especially getting highlights off the device
From 2 comments
- I like the idea and will give the app a go. I think most other comments so far are being extremely nit picky. Sure he graphics needs work, but it’s unfortunate that commenters…
  Swalden123 on HN
- First, the good. There are a lot of nice ideas here. I especially like that somebody is working on the problem of getting highlights and notes out of the device. Does the Kindle…
  criddell on HN
Privacy angle of not using Send to Kindle
From 1 comment
- I currently use 'Send to Kindle' official extension/app to do this. I once thought of creating custom setup using calibre API to do the same without sending the data to Amazon;…
  Abishek_Muthian on HN

Design looks like Calibre or unpolished
From 3 comments
- The idea is good and I'm always looking forward to the day where there's a good alternative to Calibre. Unfortunately the design is giving me a very strong Calibre vibe. Some…
  dewey on HN
- First, the good. There are a lot of nice ideas here. I especially like that somebody is working on the problem of getting highlights and notes out of the device. Does the Kindle…
  criddell on HN
- I'm not a specialist in graphic design, but a few issues that appeared to stand out to me, in no particular order: 1. Whatever the shadowed rectangle is lower left, it looks like…
  iudqnolq on HN
Only available for 64-bit Mac and Windows
From 3 comments
- "Sorry , current version only available for 64Bit Mac and Windows."
  galapago on HN
- Sad that there's no linux version, I would have loved to try this.
  RMPR on HN
- No Linux version :/
  avgeek23 on HN
Copy has English errors
From 1 comment
- Some webpage deserve to be lasting kept in eBook format This is not a valid English sentence. Perhaps you meant “Some webpages deserve to be permanantly kept in eBook format”?…
  egypturnash on HN

Linux version
From 3 comments
- This looks like an electron app. Is it, and if so can you make Debian/Ubuntu releases? Depending on what you're doing it should be a relatively simple change to your build…
  iudqnolq on HN
- Sad that there's no linux version, I would have loved to try this.
  RMPR on HN
- No Linux version :/
  avgeek23 on HN
Support for other e-readers or EPUB
From 1 comment
- Does this only work with the Amazon Kindle, or can you use any e-reader? Standard EPUB support would be nice.
  dublinben on HN
PDF conversion support
From 1 comment
- Is there a way to convert PDFs to Kindle format though ? I'd love to have research papers on kindle.
  gjango on HN

Does it work with any e-reader or only Amazon Kindle
From 1 comment
- Does this only work with the Amazon Kindle, or can you use any e-reader? Standard EPUB support would be nice.
  dublinben on HN
Does the Kindle need a USB connection or work over network
From 1 comment
- First, the good. There are a lot of nice ideas here. I especially like that somebody is working on the problem of getting highlights and notes out of the device. Does the Kindle…
  criddell on HN

Calibre
From 2 comments
- The idea is good and I'm always looking forward to the day where there's a good alternative to Calibre. Unfortunately the design is giving me a very strong Calibre vibe. Some…
  dewey on HN
- Calibre handles this very well. Plug in kindle > open calibre > go to device settings and uncheck pdf support > add books and calibre automatically converts to .mobi
  stonewareslord on HN
Send to Kindle
From 1 comment
- I currently use 'Send to Kindle' official extension/app to do this. I once thought of creating custom setup using calibre API to do the same without sending the data to Amazon;…
  Abishek_Muthian on HN
K2pdfopt
From 1 comment
- I use K2pdfopt to convert scientific articles to a format (mostly) readable on my Kindle.
  mormegil on HN