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Reading The Daily Maverick on Kindle

Posted by Nicholas Spagnoletti at Jul 20, 2011 01:02 PM |
I love the Daily Maverick but frustratingly they don't offer a Kindle edition - Calibre to the rescue!

The Daily Maverick is great. Excellent journalism and intelligent opinion. Unfortunately they're completely seduced by shiny baubles and are pouring all their resources into creating an iPad version set to launch next month.

They are quite stubborn about producing a Kindle version; doubly frustrating because I'd actually happily pay for this (I already subscribe to the M&G kindle edition).

Calibre has a very useful feature which can turn an RSS feed (or a number of RSS feeds) into an ebook for reading later on your Kindle or similar device.

Enter the Daily Maverick's RSS feed: http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/rss as a Custom news source.

Select 'MOBI' as the output format and then transfer to Kindle either with the USB cable or by sending it to your Kindle email address (remember if you send it to your free Kindle address it will be delivered free of charge as long as you're on a WIFI network) The result is a near perfect reading experience similar to what you get if you subscribe to the M&G or Newsweek in the Kindle store.

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Calibre

Comments (1)

phillipdewet Jul 26, 2011 04:16 PM
That's pretty awesome. We're nowhere near having the time or resources to put together a Kindle version of the site, so if you can roll your own we're doubleplus happy. Unfortunately that won't help you with iMaverick, the iPad publication, which will both be tablet-specific and behind a paywall.