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How to Get the Daily News on a Kobo or reMarkable
Neither reader takes files by email, so the Kindle tricks don’t carry over. These do, from the one built into every Kobo to the ones that need a little setup.
A Kindle has its own email address, so anything that can send an email can put the news on it. A Kobo and a reMarkable don’t. Files reach them through an app, a cloud folder, a browser or a cable, which rules out most “news to your e-reader” services. What follows is what still works as of October 2026.
We make one of these, The Quiet Courier, so read the last section with that in mind. The others are described as fairly as we can manage.
The short version
| Method | Readers | Cost | Needs a computer | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instapaper, built into Kobo | Kobo | Free, with a paid tier | No | Articles you saved yourself |
| KOReader's news downloader | Kobo, PocketBook | Free | Only to install KOReader | The RSS feeds you choose, as ebooks |
| Calibre's Fetch News and a cloud folder | Some Kobo models, reMarkable | Free | Yes, it must be on | Any site Calibre has a recipe for |
| Read on reMarkable | reMarkable | Free | Yes, Chrome | Only what you send that day |
| The Quiet Courier | Kobo, reMarkable, Boox, Kindle | 14 days free, then $4 a month | No | A finished paper at 5 a.m. behind a private link |
1. Instapaper, built into Kobo
For years Kobo readers had Pocket built in. Mozilla shut Pocket down in July 2025, and Kobo replaced it with Instapaper in a software update a month later. Save an article with Instapaper’s browser extension or phone app, and it shows up on the Kobo, stripped of ads and readable offline.
Good for: long reads you come across during the day. The catch: it’s a reading list you fill yourself, not a paper. Nothing arrives unless you saved it.
2. KOReader’s news downloader
KOReader is a free, open-source reading app that runs on Kobo and PocketBook readers alongside their own software. It has a built-in news downloader: give it the RSS feeds of the sites you read, and over Wi-Fi it fetches the latest articles and saves them as ebooks on the reader itself. No computer is involved once it’s set up.
Good for: readers comfortable installing software by hand. The catch: KOReader isn’t made or supported by Kobo, the install takes some care, and like any RSS setup you are the editor. Many feeds carry only a summary, so the downloader has to fetch each page and clean it up, which works better on some sites than others.
3. Calibre’s Fetch News and a cloud folder
Calibre, the free ebook manager for Windows, Mac and Linux, has a Fetch news button with recipes for hundreds of news sites, and it can run on a schedule. The trick is getting its file onto the reader without a cable.
Some Kobo models read straight from Dropbox or Google Drive: Dropbox on the Forma, Sage, Elipsa and recent Clara models, and Google Drive on the Forma, Sage, Elipsa 2E and Libra Colour. A reMarkable can link Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive without a subscription. Point Calibre’s output at that folder and the morning file is waiting on the device.
Good for: tinkerers who want particular sites. The catch: the schedule only runs while your computer is on and Calibre is open, recipes break when a site redesigns, and on most Kobo models there’s no cloud folder, so it’s back to a USB cable.
4. Read on reMarkable
reMarkable’s own Chrome extension sends the page you’re looking at to the tablet, as a cleaned-up article or a PDF. It doesn’t need a Connect subscription.
Good for: saving a few articles to read and mark up with the pen. The catch: it’s one page at a time, by hand, from a computer.
5. The Quiet Courier
This is ours. Every morning at 5 a.m. in your time zone, a finished newspaper is ready behind a private link that only you have: a lead story from The Conversation, the day’s events in brief, world reporting, science from NASA, the forecast for any city you choose, stories printed on this date in 1926, a chapter of a classic novel, a poem, and a sudoku, cryptogram and word search. It’s laid out like an old broadsheet, as a PDF cut to your screen (three columns on a 10-inch reMarkable or Kobo Elipsa) or as an EPUB, and takes about twenty minutes to read.
How it gets onto the reader:
- Kobo or PocketBook with KOReader: add your link as an OPDS catalog once, then download each morning’s edition from it in two taps.
- reMarkable: open the link on your phone or computer and send the file to the tablet with the reMarkable app, or save it to a linked Google Drive or Dropbox folder.
- Boox and tablets: open the link in the reader’s browser and the file downloads.
Good for: people who want a paper that ends, without running software or choosing feeds. The catch: you don’t pick the stories, it costs $4 a month after 14 free days, and outside KOReader it’s still a tap or two each morning, because neither reader can be sent a file the way a Kindle can. You can read today’s edition before deciding.
A note on Kindle
If you also have a Kindle, or are choosing between readers, Kindles are the easiest to send news to, because each has its own email address. Our Kindle guide covers the options there.