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    ArchiveBox

    Launch

    📸 Save the current page with the toolbar button, keyboard shortcut, or right-click menu. 🏛 Send URLs to your own ArchiveBox server to preserve websites for later. 🏷 Search, sort, tag, and manage your saved URLs in one place. ⚙ Automatically

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

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    Free Programming Books

    Launch

    Free Programming Books is a long-running list of free learning resources for programmers, kept by the Free Ebook Foundation on GitHub. It gathers freely available books, courses, interactive tutorials, podcasts, screencasts and problem sets

    FreeOpen source

  3. Substack

    Launch

    Discover & subscribe to independent writers, podcasters, and video creators.

    Free

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    RSSHub

    Launch

    Easy to use, and extensible RSS feed aggregator capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything ranging from social media to university departments. (Demo, Source Code) MIT Nodejs/Docker

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

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    Wallabag

    Launch

    wallabag is a self-hostable, open-source read-it-later app for saving web articles. It extracts the content you care about, removes distractions and keeps the article in your own archive, so you can read it later in the browser, on a phone,

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

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    Koodo Reader

    Launch

    Koodo Reader is a powerful ebook reader designed to provide a simple and easy-to-use reading experience. Format support: • EPUB (.epub) • PDF (.pdf) • DRM-free Mobipocket (.mobi) and Kindle (.azw3, .azw) • Plain text (.txt) • FictionBook (.

    FreeOpen source

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Readest

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Fluent Reader

Modern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React, and Fluent UI

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MediaMTX

Ready-to-use, zero-dependency real-time media server and proxy to publish, read

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Calibre Web

Browse, read and download eBooks using an existing Calibre database

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Kavita

Cross-platform e-book/manga/comic/pdf server and web reader

Launch
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MdBook

Create books with Markdown using Rust

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BookWyrm

Join a federated social reading platform where you can track books

Launch
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Komga

Media server for comics/mangas/BDs

Launch
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Koreader

An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB

Launch
16
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Calibre Web Automated

All-in-one solution, combining the modern lightweight web UI

Launch
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Hacker News Trends

Search & Chart Any Topic Over Time

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NetNewsWire

RSS reader for macOS and iOS

Launch
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Quarkdown

Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books

Launch
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Omnivore

Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution

Launch
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BookStack

An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

Launch
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Feed me up, Scotty!

RSS feeds for arbitrary websites, using CSS selectors

Launch
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Haven

Haven is a new way of sharing things on the internet

Launch
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Stump

A fast, free and open source comics, manga and digital book server

Launch
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Selfoss

New multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application

Launch
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0x.tools

X-Ray vision for Linux systems

Launch
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nekoweb

Cuz internet is for the cats

Launch
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SubtlePatterns Bookmarklet

Preview background patterns on your website

Launch
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RSS-Bridge

Generate RSS/ATOM feeds for websites which don't have one

Launch
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RSS Bridge

RSS feeds for websites missing them

Launch
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Stringer

Work-in-progress self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader

Launch
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Lkmpg

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (updated for 5.0+ kernels)

Launch
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100 Go Mistakes

100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Launch
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A

Artemis

Artemis is a calm web reader

Launch
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Readeck

Personal content hub for saving articles, videos, and images

Launch
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S

Stratoshark

A sibling application to Wireshark

Launch
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Thorium Reader

A cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit

Launch
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Foliate

Read e-books in style

Launch
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You Dont Know JS Ru

Russian translation of "You Don't Know JS" book series

Launch
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BookOrbit

Your Reading Space

Launch
41
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Upvote RSS

Generate rich RSS feeds from Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, Mbin, and more

Launch
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Doogie

A Power Browser

Launch
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Flutter

Build apps for any screen

Launch
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OpenOrb

A curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds

Launch
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Sioyek

PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents

Launch
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The Brutalist Report

The day's headlines delivered to you without bullshit

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T

Tiny Tiny RSS

Web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator

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Yarr

Yarr (yet another rss reader) is a web-based feed aggregator

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KCC

KCC (a.k.a. Kindle Comic Converter) is a comic and manga converter

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Ecco

Look Inside Language Models

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