Your Own News Maker is a very specialized form of RSS reader as its main purpose is not to inform the user of new posts but to turn those posts into pdf or fb2 format for offline reading.

Multiple RSS feeds can be added to the program as sources. The software will pull the latest articles of the RSS feeds automatically from the sites and display their titles in the content column.

If you would hit the make pdf or make fb2 button right now you would create a file that only contains titles and links to the articles but not the articles itself.

The page rules wizard needs to be used to select the part of the content that the user wants included in the pdf or fb2 document. A click on that button will open the selected article in html view with all html and script elements displayed. The user now needs to find the position in the html document where the content starts and ends.

It is furthermore possible to clear all html tags in the output and define the parser rules. Parser rules are used to define the content that is included in the pdf newspaper. The program fills that out automatically based on the content selection in the first step of the process.

A click on the pdf or fb2 button will then generate the document and display it in a preview window. A click on the ok button will open the save file dialog window to save the pdf to the local computer system.

Your Own News Maker is an interesting program to turn RSS feeds into pdf or fb2 documents. The content selection is slightly complicated and I ran into the problem that the ad beneath the content was included in the document even though it was not selected in the process.

The program is available as a portable version or installer for the Windows operating system as well as Linux. It can be downloaded from the Google Code project site.

Feedbooks is providing a similar service. The only difference is that they -only- convert the RSS Feed of a website into a pdf document that can be downloaded without costs from their website. The whole process is as simple as it can get, paste a feed into the form, hit submit and download the pdf document at the end.

Feedbook provides A4 pdf downloads, Cybook & Sony Reader, iLiad (whatever that is) and custom documents. I was not able to explore the custom option further because one has to signup to create those.

Feedbooks provides a button that webmasters can embed on their website. I have not tried it yet but I guess it would be possible to use one of the many feed combination services to combine many feeds into one and paste that url into Feedbooks to create a huge pdf document from multiple feeds.

Feedbooks offers more than just this RSS to PDF service. Users can download e-books as well that can be sorted in various ways. I encountered some error messages from time to time when I tried to convert some feeds.