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Switch to EPUB for Kindle deliveries

Since Amazon will no longer accept e-book deliveries in the MOBI format, crofflr changed to the EPUB e-book format to continue the deliveries to your devices. You can still get

Instant delivery triggers

Want to get an instant delivery without logging into the crofflr website? Use the new instant delivery triggers. An instant delivery trigger is a special link that can initiate an

Getting Started

Piping RSS feeds into crofflr using IFTTT and Pocket

Say you have a handful of blogs or news sites where you want every new article in your Pocket list and of course in your crofflr deliveries. So instead of

Email & EPUB

Today I released a new update for the crofflr service with two new features: Email delivery to your mailbox EPUB e-book format So crofflr is no longer a "Kindle

Closing the loop

Today I added a new feature to crofflr that allows you to include QR-Codes at the end of each article. These codes can be read using your smartphone or tablet

Dropbox integration

Good news, crofflr just passed the Dropbox review process. So it's time for a new feature: Dropbox integration. When you connect your Dropbox account in the crofflr configuration, crofflr will

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Switch to the new Pocket API and other news

Greetings from the crofflr headquarters. Thanks to the easter break and the horrible weather conditions here in Berlin I found time to update the crofflr service. The most important update is the switch to the new Pocket developer API. The new API brings better

Switch to Pinboard API Authentication Tokens

I changed the authentication method for the Pinboard service to the (not so) new API Token method. So instead of using your username and password in each Pinboard API call, I can now pass an API token that's specific to your Pinboard account. The

Year-End Wrap Up

2012 was a great year for crofflr. The service gained a lot of new subscribers, which is important for crofflr because it makes the project financially sustainable. crofflr is still a small mom-and-pop business and depends on people who are willing to pay for

crofflr adds Give Me Something To Read

I released a new version of the crofflr service. I have a weak side for curated reading lists, so I added the excellent Give Me Something To Read collection to the list of services for crofflr. This website features a hand-picked selection of the

crofflr adds user defined delivery times and time zones

I released a new version of the crofflr service. Photo by leoplus With this release I added an often requested feature: You can now set your prefered delivery time for your timezone. Please note that crofflr will not deliver exactly to the minute. You

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crofflr adds Longreads articles

I released a new version of the crofflr service. With this release you can add articles from Longreads to your weekly delivery. Longreads posts links to new stories every day — they include long-form journalism, magazine stories from your favorite publications (The New Yorker, Esquire,

crofflr adds images

I released a new version of the crofflr service.With this release you can add images to your articles. crofflr tries to add only images that are “relevant”, but your mileage may vary.crofflr optimizes these images for the Kindle. All images are converted

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crofflr adds Longform.org articles

I released a new version of the crofflr service.With this release you can add articles from Longform.org to your weekly delivery. Longform.org posts new and classic non-fiction articles, curated from across the web, that are too long and too interesting to