Hello. I’m looking for a software to save web pages from my computer and phone and read them later in my ereader device that has wifi connection and a rudimentary browser. Ideally, the software would turn the web pages into some sort of reader view mode to make them more fluid for the ereader, but that’s not necessary. I want something as simple as possible that I can host locally on a raspberry pi-like device. I don’t need long term archival or fancy features. Do you have any recommendations? I believe you’re the best people to know a nice tool for that job.

Edit: Thank you, everyone! I got a bit overwhelmed here, but I will check everything in my time.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I mean, at least tell them what the correct usage is.

      OP, you probably want “software package” or “a piece of software”.

      “Software” is a mass noun, like “butter”. You can’t have “a butter”. You can have “a pound of butter”.

      In English, mass nouns are characterized by the impossibility of being directly modified by a numeral without specifying a unit of measurement and by the impossibility of being combined with an indefinite article (a or an). Thus, the mass noun “water” is quantified as “20 litres of water” while the count noun “chair” is quantified as “20 chairs”. However, both mass and count nouns can be quantified in relative terms without unit specification (e.g., “so much water”, “so many chairs”, though note the different quantifiers “much” and “many”).

      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/software

      Usage notes

      Software is a mass noun (some software, a piece of software). By non-native speakers it is sometimes erroneously treated as a countable noun (a software, some softwares).

      “A something” is only correct if the noun is a countable noun.

    • madkins@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I’m guessing you tried a joke that just didn’t land, but just in case… It may help to think of it like this: this person is looking for a suggestion. What kind of suggestion? A software suggestion