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I actually repurposed an old Kindle to do just that, via kindle-dash[0]

Every 15 minutes it makes a cURL to an endpoint that gets my agenda, some news headlines, the weather, etc., and uses Puppeteer (I think) to return an image for the kindle to display.

[0] https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash




This is exactly what I need! Do you know if it works on a paperwhite? If not, no worries, I know I can find old kindles.


I've personally only tested it with a Kindle 4 NT. I haven't had any reports of people using this on other Kindle devices, but in theory it should work as long as the device is jailbroken.


This is a neat project!

Thanks for the inspiration!


I had no idea this existed but was off writing something similar as well. Glad to see a public project repurposing old hardware. I think there's a large potential userbase if PW support eventually get's added.




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