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+# Push tagged wallabag articles to kindle
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+**This project is Work in progress!**
+
+This is a service that polls a [Wallabag](https://wallabag.org/en) instance for
+articles with a certain tag (`kindle`, `kindle-mobi` or `kindle-pdf`). If it
+finds an article tagged with one of thse tags, it exports the article in the
+requested format and sends it via email to a configured kindle adress.