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Make threads Kindle / print friendly
I wished to set aside some threads to read on my Kindle. I use the Kindle Chrome extension for that, but on Tildes it only captures the main topic, not the comments. I tried saving the page locally but the Kindle app still didn't work. My only option on Chrome seems to be printing to PDF, but that's a subpar solution. I was able to convert the offline page to mobi using Calibre, though, but this is not very practical and the result was not that good.
maybe I should have written conversion friendly, because printing to paper/PDF is working fine
Are there any sites that you think do a particularly good job of this? It seems like a good feature, but I'm not sure exactly what would be necessary to do it well, so having an example would be helpful.
It works on most websites, but the ones where it doesn't don't bother me that much because I always have other options. Because I use Tildes every day, it bothered me enough to look for solutions. Here's some links that are working fine with the Kindle extension:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/16/17984074/google-eu-android-licensing-bundle-chrome-search
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/khashoggi-trump-iran-sanctions.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
https://lifehacker.com/the-best-camera-apps-1829781750
https://kotaku.com/without-developer-support-marvel-vs-capcom-players-or-1829793834
If you don't have Kindle you can test the Kindle extension with the desktop reader, but if you click on "preview" in Chrome it will show you how it's re-rendering the page anyway.
You might want to consider opening this as an issue on the Gitlab page.
I can do that (or various other people can too), people don't need to set up a new account and figure out how to create an issue, just posting here is fine.