Kindle laying on a stack of magazines

Ever wish you could get the latest result of your favorite mag on your Kindle? Or wish you could plough your favorite website into a digital digest of articles for reading like an ebook? Calibre can make information technology happen.

How This Works

Digital magazine subscriptions are a mess. Some magazine subscriptions come up with access to the digital version, some don't. Some digital versions include access to the e-ink Kindle version, while others are but for tablets. It'south confusing, and it'south too bad since the Kindle provides an like shooting fish in a barrel-on-the-optics reading experience that no other device can friction match (specially at nighttime, or in direct sunlight).

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Enter Calibre. Calibre is an open-source eBook management tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and it'southward chock full of useful features for owners of Kindles and other eReaders. Ane of my personal favorites is the power to turn any website into an ebook-like magazine and send it right to your Kindle. If the website has a physical version—like Time Magazine or New York Magazine—it can actually pull the articles from that month's table of contents, in the aforementioned order, and evangelize a digital equivalent of this month's issue correct to your Kindle.

In some cases, that will crave a paid subscription to said magazine. Time Mag, for case, has a paywall—you can only access 10 articles per month before the site requires a subscription. And so, to go the latest issue from Calibre, you volition need a Time.com login that has admission to more than than 10 articles a month. You tin can pay for it yourself or borrow information technology from a friend—we won't tell.

In many other cases, the online manufactures are completely free. With New York Magazine, the physical and digital magazines cost coin, but the website is free to read as much as you desire—meaning Calibre can cobble together the manufactures from this month's issue with no money or login required. Pretty neat, huh?

For some publications, it may just take hold of the latest articles from that day's RSS feed—fifty-fifty for some sites that accept physical magazines (like Men's Wellness or PC Magazine). Either way, though, it'due south a slap-up way to get your favorite news on your Kindle, and as long as the website offers articles for complimentary, so is the Kindle version generated by Calibre. Here's how to set it all up.

Step 1: Collect and Schedule Your News Sources

There are two means to create a digital digest for your eReader: you can use ane of Calibre's built-in news sources or create your ain.

Using Calibre's Born News Sources

First, download and install Calibre if you haven't already. Then, to check out the news sources Calibre has to offering, right-click on the "Fetch News" icon in the toolbar and select "Schedule News Download".

Click the down arrow and select "Schedule News Download"

Yous'll be presented with a window that includes hundreds of built-in news sources, curated by Calibre's users and developers. Select your language of selection in the sidebar—we selected English, which yields over 400 publications from around the web.

You'll find a list of news sources

Scroll through and select the publication y'all want to turn into a digital ebook. In our instance, we'll select New York Mag—it's ane of the sources that actually mimics the print version of the mag, and it's completely free since the site has no paywall.

select the publication you want to turn into a digital ebook

(If you lot select a site that requires a free or paid account to view more than than a few articles, you'll run across an "Business relationship Required" box for your username and countersign. Blazon them in hither before continuing.)

Log into your account if the source requires an account

By default, the "Schedule for Download" box is unchecked. Check it, and then select the frequency with which Calibre will cheque for new articles. Checking an RSS feed is not at all resource-intensive, and then feel complimentary to err on the side of frequent checks. In my case, I'1000 fine but checking once a week. Click the Save button when you're finished.

Select the frequency with which Calibre will check for new articles

You can repeat this procedure for as many equally the pre-populated news sources as yous wish. Each volition create a separate magazine that you lot tin send to your Kindle or other eReader. When you're done, return to the master window and click "Fetch News"—this should download all your scheduled magazines manually. You lot should only have to do this once, since from at present on it'll download them automatically on your schedule.

Using a Custom News Source

If Calibre doesn't have a feed for the news source you want, you can add together it yourself. For case, let'southward say you want to go on up with the news articles from your friendly How-To Geek. (Calibre has a How-To Geek news source born, simply it sends all manufactures from the site—whereas this feed volition just send the news articles.)

Again, right-click on the Fetch news button in Calibre's toolbar. This fourth dimension, click on "Add together or Edit a Custom News Source".

Right-click the "Fetch News" button and select "Add or Edit a Custom News Source"

On the window that appears, click the "New Recipe" push along the bottom of the window.

Click the "New Recipe" button

The "Add Custom News Source" window will appear. Give your recipe a championship, customize the number and age of the articles it volition grab, and then enter the Feed Title and Feed URL at the bottom. Click "Add together Feed" when finished.

Add details to your recipe and then click "Add Feed"

You can echo this process to add multiple feeds to this recipe if yous want, effectively creating your own digital magazine from all your favorite sites. When you're done adding all your feeds, click "Salvage" at the bottom.

In one case you've saved it, you can go back to Fetch News > Schedule News Download, and your recipe volition appear under "Custom" instead of a language.

Go back to Fetch News > Schedule News Download, find the new recipe under "Custom"

Go alee and set the schedule frequency every bit described higher up and then salvage again. Yous can click the "Fetch News" button to manually download your recipe for the commencement fourth dimension; after that, it should download automatically on the schedule you lot set.

Step 2: Transport Your Magazines to Your Ereader

Y'all take a few sources set up, only at present it's fourth dimension to get them on your Kindle or other eReader. If you clicked the Fetch News button to download your magazines, y'all should have a few issues in your library by this point—go alee and double-click on any of them to come across how they look. In our instance, they look pretty good:

Click the "Fetch News" button to see several downloaded articles

At that place are two ways you lot tin can transport these digital issues to your Kindle. Y'all can plug information technology into your estimator and transfer the magazines over USB just like any other volume, which nosotros've described here…or you can send them over the internet automatically with a bit of actress configuration.

Head to Calibre's Preferences and click the Behavior section. You'll want to prepare your Preferred Output Format to brand sure your magazines are in the correct format for your eReader of pick. I've prepare mine to MOBI since I use a Kindle. It should too be set to automatically send downloaded news to your eReader, and that's a practiced matter.

Open Calibre's Preferences menu and choose the preferred output format

Close this window to return to Calibre's preferences, and click "Sharing Books By Email". This page volition allow y'all to configure settings that send your ebooks over electronic mail to your device. For example, afterward connecting my Kindle to my Amazon account, I was given a unique email address @kindle.com—any ebook I email to that address automatically gets added to my Kindle, as long as my Kindle is connected to Wi-Fi.

Click the "Add Email" button on the right-hand side and blazon in your eReader's email address. (Kindle users, you can detect this email address on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your account. Just click the "Your Devices" tab and click the button side by side to your Kindle to see the email address.)

Click the "Add Email" button and enter your Kindle's email address

Once you've added your email address, I recommend checking the "Auto Send" box. That volition ensure this all happens automatically without you lot having to do anything.

Check the "Auto Send" box

Next, you'll demand an email address to transport the ebooks from. Y'all tin can try using your regular electronic mail accost with its IMAP settings here, but in my experience, that doesn't work very well. The most reliable flim-flam is to create a free GMX email business relationship just for Calibre, as support is baked right in.

Caput to GMX'southward site and click the "Sign Upward" button. Enter your information (fake data is fine if y'all're worried about privacy) and create your account.

Go to GMX's website and create an account

Once your business relationship has been created, sign in and head to GMX'south settings. It'due south the 2d wrench icon in the left sidebar.

Go to GMX's settings menu

From there, head to the "POP3 & IMAP" section of the settings, and check the box that says "Send and Receive Emails via External Plan".

Go to the POP3 and IMAP section and check the "Send and Receive Emails via External Program" box

Head back to Calibre'due south Sharing Books by Email window and, in the lesser one-half of the window, click the "Utilise GMX" button. Enter your GMX credentials (your username is your total email accost) and click OK. Your credentials should be filled in.

Click the "Use GMX" button in Calibre's Sharing Books by Email windows and enter your GMX credentials

If you're using a Kindle, you'll besides need to head to this page, scroll down and aggrandize "Personal Certificate Settings", and add your GMX email to your Canonical Personal Document E-mail service List.

One time that's done, return to Calibre and click the "Test Email" button. If all went well, you should see a success message, and your GMX electronic mail should be able to send books to your Kindle address. Y'all can read more nigh Calibre's GMX integration here if you take trouble.

Whew! That was a lot, but you should be all set—caput back to Calibre's principal window, select one of your magazines, and click the "Connect/Share" push button in the toolbar (you lot may demand to click the overflow arrows on the right side of the toolbar to see this push button). Choose "Email to [address]" and see if it works. If all is ready up correctly, you should see the magazine appear on your Kindle in a little while.

Choose "Email to [address]" and see if it works

From now on, this should all happen automatically—you tin can simply leave Calibre running in the background on your system, and your magazines will just bear witness up on your Kindle when they're ready to read!

If you leave Calibre running on your computer, the sending process will happen in the background automatically