I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

Most of the useful signal landed on implementation. People pointed out that generating periodical-style reading bundles is not new. Calibre has long shipped a built-in news recipe system, and several people described their own pipelines using FreshRSS, Miniflux, Wallabag, KOReader, OPDS catalogs, Instapaper, Kavita, Omnivore, and Readeck. The recurring pattern was the same. Pull feeds, fetch or capture full article text, convert to EPUB or sync to a read-later service, then deliver it to an e-reader with as little manual work as possible. That last part was the sticking point. The main complaint was friction, not ideology. If refreshing content means turning on a hotspot, running a sync manually, or tolerating weak device software, the habit falls apart. Several people said this is what keeps them on iPads or phones despite preferring e-ink. Full-text extraction is the second bottleneck. Many feeds are partial, image-heavy, or blocked behind login prompts, so the system only works well if you add a fetcher like Miniflux or use client-side capture tools such as Readeck. Once people had a mostly automatic path, they reported the setup working well. The behavioral claim also got a quieter but important check. Swapping devices does help some people, but others said the real problem is phone dependence and habit formation, not display technology. In places where banking-grade identity apps are the login layer for everyday services, leaving the phone behind is not realistic. That pushed the conversation toward a more grounded conclusion. E-ink can be a good constraint device for reading, but only if the workflow is nearly automatic and your life is not structurally tied to the smartphone you are trying to avoid.