# cdhigh/KindleEar

Aggregates RSS and web content(Calibre recipe), sends to Kindle, and includes an e-ink optimized online reader.

Repository: https://github.com/cdhigh/KindleEar
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kindleear
Homepage: http://cdhigh.github.io/KindleEar/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-14T15:58:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 73/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 28, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4808, "days_push": 19, "days_rel": 616, "gap_med": 56.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2865, forks 621 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:26.604011+00:00)

## What it is
KindleEar is a self-hostable Python web application that aggregates RSS/ATOM/JSON feeds and web content (including Calibre recipes) into epub/mobi/mp3 files and delivers them to Kindle and other e-readers on a schedule. It also offers an e-ink-optimized online reader, AI article summaries, bilingual translation, text-to-speech, and a browser extension for creating scraping recipes without code.

## Use cases
- push rss feeds to my kindle daily
- convert web articles to epub and send to e-reader
- run a self-hosted rss-to-kindle service
- use calibre recipes to scrape news sites into ebooks
- read aggregated articles online on an e-ink device
- get ai summaries of daily news feeds
- turn news articles into audio with text-to-speech
- scrape any website to my kindle without coding

## When to avoid
- you only need a plain RSS reader without ebook delivery
- you cannot deploy or maintain a Python web application on a hosting platform or VPS
- you need real-time feed reading rather than scheduled digest pushes

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, etl, email, tts, nlp, self-hosted, http-server, templating
- domain: developer-tools, media, self-hosted, web-development
- platform: python, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: kindle, ebook-generation, rss-aggregator, calibre-recipes, epub, mobi, e-ink, browser-extension, ai-summaries, translation, automation, natural-language-processing, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- cdhigh/KindleEar (main) score 73

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:26.604011+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:36:13.648067+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cdhigh/KindleEar (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:26.604011+00:00, sha 234e8af906c2)
  - homepage: http://cdhigh.github.io/KindleEar/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:51:50.759726+00:00, sha 09a7e9a4f47d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.