A daily news-reading workflow with KTool and Kindle

Sending every news item to Kindle can produce an ebook too long to finish. Start with the amount you want to read in one sitting, then choose sources that fit it.

This setup uses Daily Read for routine news and Weekly Read for longer pieces. You can change that split once you see what arrives.

Build a small first issue

In KTool's RSS page, add a feed from a publication you already read. Choose Add to Daily Read as its destination. If the publisher offers separate topic feeds, pick the section you want rather than its whole-site feed.

Add another source only if it covers something the first one misses. A general news feed and a specialist feed are easier to assess than ten feeds added at once. You can also send individual articles from the browser extension to Daily Read.

Open the Daily Read magazine and review the collected articles. Remove unwanted entries and arrange the ones you want to read first. Give a long reported piece a place near the beginning if short updates tend to consume all your reading time.

Schedule delivery before your reading session

Open magazine settings and choose the delivery hour and time zone for Daily Read. Leave some time between delivery and your planned reading session so your Kindle can download the document.

For example, if you read over breakfast, schedule the issue earlier in the morning. If you read on the commute home, use an afternoon delivery. These are starting points; pick the time you can keep using.

Once the ebook is on the Kindle, use its table of contents to jump to an article. You can stop halfway through an issue. There is no need to finish a story that no longer interests you.

Give long pieces a separate destination

An essay that remains useful next weekend doesn't need to compete with today's news. Send it to Weekly Read instead. Set that magazine's day and hour around a longer reading session.

For research on a particular subject, a Custom Magazine keeps those articles together and lets you deliver them when you have a useful selection.

Review the sources after a few deliveries

Look at the articles you skipped. If one feed supplied most of them, choose a narrower feed or stop subscribing to it. If an important source didn't appear, check whether it published new items and whether you selected the expected destination.

KTool checks feeds and sends documents through a delivery process, so use a publisher's own alerts for time-critical news. Keep your Kindle issue for the material you can read later.