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Use Gmail to get POP3 and enable IMAP

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I now use Gmail to get my work mail from POP3 server and serve to my Thunderbird via IMAP. I labeled mail from POP3 as "Work". I can now view gmail and work mail together. IMAP is also convenient as it doesn't matter how many clients you have, they are all synced to GMAIL. You have all your mail in the cloud. When you have to change the PC/Notebook, just install the client and sync. No need to copy .pst file or things like that. One thing I need to get used to is the concept of "Label" which is not the same as "Folders". But I think it has its advantages. Here's how I structured my "label" You can drag and drop mail to different labels but when you drag mail out from the list, the label used to show that list also get removed, but not other labels. Just have to be aware of this.

Create RSS Feeds from any Web Site

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Feed43 is the most flexible and let you control where and how to extract contents and turn into RSS feeds when compared to others. Highly recommended.

Diagram Showing News Delivery to my Kindle and iPad

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Making use of feedstitch, ifttt.com, Readability, Instapaper and SENDtoREADER. Byline on iPad is highly recommended due to its caching capability. I used dabbleboard.com to draw this. Very convenient. [Updated:April 17,2012] feedstitch is down. I now add tasks into ifttt.com to send new feeds to Readability directly. You can add multiple feeds, so no need to combine using feedstitch first.

Google Reader to Kindle

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1. Klip.me is almost the perfect choice. You can set schedule, specify which folder in Google Reader, how many post to send. But it does not support images and does not fetch the full content. 2. SENDtoREADER. I found that it does not fetch the correct content. For example some content on sidebar not related to main article got fetched and mixed in with the main articles. I compared this to the way Readability fetched this correctly. Unacceptable. 3. Kindlefeeder does not get the whole content and does not send images or sometime send wrong images So far I got perfect contents with images on Kindle from Readability. Just need to find a way to send feeds automatically to Readability so that I can set schedule to send the list update to Kindle from Readability. I think I'm going to use ifttt.com to do this. I can create multiple tasks in ifttt.com with each one correspond to one rss feed and send its update to Readability. Another way is to combine all rss feeds first using feeds

Kindle It versus Send to Kindle

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I feel that "Kindle It" from FiveFilters.org sends better format than "Send to Kindle" from Klip.me. Both are very useful.

Google Reader and Readability

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I was looking for a beautiful news reader that I can use on PC, something similar to flipboard on iPad. I also want to be able to send the lengthy news to another app like the Instapaper or Readability so I can read it easily with a clean layout. Another feature I wanted was "Send to Kindle". Below are News Reader that I like. All of them support browsing for news/feeds to be added to your channel. Supported Apps  for Read Later Layout Instapaper Read It Later Beautiful, Magazine-like No Web-based Instapaper Readability Read It Later Row-based No Web-based Instapaper Similar to Flipboard No Web-based None Row at the bottom Clean Content Layout Support both Mobile and Web-based Only Layers/Persona has the corresponding web-based for PC. But it does not support sending to Instapaper and Readability. I should also mention that Instapaper can only send the whole updated list to your Kindle, not selectively per article. Readability