Interesting, and arguably useful, but I really have to push back on the whole notion of site-specific readers.

I have a text-only CLI utility to read BBC news: the w3m terminal-mode Web browser. (Substitute Lynx, links, elinks2, or any other TMWB of your preference.)

The experience is, unfortunately, kind of shit, because BBC (as with far too many other websites) fails to display well in a terminal-mode browser, but it at least works. And I can use the same browser on any other website.

The problem with site-specific tools, which includes of course mobile apps, is that now instead of invoking a general-purpose reader on any site, you have to choose both the site and the reader, and are dependent on that reader application / utility being continuously updated as the site itself changes.

(And, yes, I've written my own site-specific renderers, including one which produces a "newspaper"-formatted page based on the CNN "lite" website, which I've discussed on HN and elsewhere:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43723661>

Longer description and screenshots:

<https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/114356066459105122>

The page takes about 10 minutes to generate (a bunch of serial article requests), but makes for good offline reading.