Show HN: I built a tool to help you read Hacker News on Kindle (ktool.io)
recommended by 1 user | 2022 | 393 points by longnguyen | hn tools | original thread |

Hi HN, I'm Daniel Nguyen. In June, I quit my job to start indie hacking full-time.

The idea of KTool first came to my mind when I was reading "Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?"[0]

I've been wearing glasses since I was 5. My right eye is basically blind. Doctors said there is no chance to cure it.

I was genuinely scared. Like holy shit, if my left eye stops working, my life is done. Since then I've been very conscious about time spent on computer screens.

That's when I started using Kindle-related products: to offload as many reading materials as possible to the Kindle. I was a happy customer of Push to Kindle. Great product!

Then I ran into multiple limitations which led me to build KTool: a tool to send anything online to Kindle. Blog posts, Twitter threads, Hacker News discussions, RSS, newsletters... you name it.

But I'm not here to pitch my vision for KTool.

I built a specific tool to help you send HN discussions to your Kindle. And in the spirit of Show HN, it doesn't require an account. If you don't own a Kindle, there is the option to download the EPUB.

Let me know what you think. Any feedback will be much appreciated.

If you're a Kindle owner and you read a lot of online content, give KTool a try.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980

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Timothee Jul 7, 2024 | on: Read Hacker News on Kindle (2022) | context

Previous announcement and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637996

Thought I'd share again since I needed it, found it and thought it was a perfectly simple and efficient tool. I liked that I could download the ePub directly instead of figuring out how to allow KTool to send files to my Kindle when I could do it easily myself.