Omnivore On a Kobo Ereader

[Podginator]

Hi,

I discovered Omnivore after Pocket changed the way they rendered their articles on iOS. I hadn't realised just how dependent I had become on things like margin spacing, line spacing, and custom fonts. It was jarring. After messing around for a couple of hours with Omnivore I was incredibly satisfied, and I ported all my stuff over.

The iOS and Web aspects were taken care of, but I had bought a Kobo e-reader a few years ago due to its integration with Pocket. I used it a lot before bed. I didn't want to have two different places where I stored everything. So I decided to start a little project.

I used Telnet to access my Kobo, set the host file to redirect pocket apis to an ip within my local network, and intercept the calls. I then convert them to the format the e-reader was expecting and bing bam boom I now have a Kobo e-reader with Omnivore on it.

I have found very little issues with the rendering of articles (I believe under the hood the Kobo is just using a Webkit browser, so that makes sense). I have Archiving integrated too, but currently I have not got favourites or deletion working. There are some other features that people might want to take a stab at. Also, currently, I only download my "inboxed" files. These are small changes that you could make if you wanted to.

I really appreciate the hard work that goes into Omnivore. I've been massively impressed with how responsive people are here, and the speed of feature development.

I hope that some of you find some use for this Proxy going forward, and I hope it can bring more people into the community.

The code for the proxy is below. I will update the README to go more in-depth with how I redirected from kobo to my local network in the near future.

https://github.com/Podginator/KoboOmniToPocket