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Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book
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Re: Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book
#12Not to say that I don't think this is cool, but it seems impossible. How are you going to deal with the copyright issues of commercially printing work by arbitrary authors? (Not the part where you reformat stuff for a user to print at home -- the other part where you print it for them.)
Time and location shifting are protected, at least in the US. And with the exception of software that aggressively tries to prevent doing so, backups are also considered fair use.
If you share the material with someone else, you're into infringement territory in most of the 1st World and substantially beyond, as far as I'm aware. If I tried to do this as a service, I'd probably get sued to the stone age, and I'd deserve it. But running it at home? Who's gonna know, and who's going to have a legal leg to stand on if they care?
Also we all used to joke about various parents doing this exact thing, and I don't think I've ever heard anyone get into trouble for it.
Re: Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book
#13Great idea; I'll add it to my "read later" folder.
Joking aside, this does sound like something I'd actually use and the formatting on the resulting document is very pretty. And just to let you know, your "Buy us a coffee" link gets jumbled at lower screen widths.
Re: Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book
#14Not to say that I don't think this is cool, but it seems impossible. How are you going to deal with the copyright issues of commercially printing work by arbitrary authors? (Not the part where you reformat stuff for a user to print at home -- the other part where you print it for them.)
I haven't looked too closely at how this works, but regarding your concern, don't other printing services run this risk too if that's illegal? like Kinkos, FedEx, library printers?
Re: Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book
#15Oh, but it would be way too much if I bound my entire Pocket list into a single volume. It would be massive! Perhaps it could be broken up into smaller chunks, not to exceed XX number of pages, so that I could tackle my reading list as a series of volumes. Maybe you could even add a feature to have those volumes automatically generated and disseminated at some kind of regular, periodic interval.
There are min&max pages for books, below or above which books cannot be bound. For a5/a4 max will be 800pages.
The way we have thought about it is that you can add all the “to print” content in the 'my articles' page, then create collections (i.e books to be printed) and add the articles into them accordingly.
We have thought about integrating with bookmark managers, but a core issue with that, is that we do not have access to paid content users have/do not what to provide access to content to users that shouldn’t have.
Our implementation is by snapshot-ing via our extension a user’s tab, hence providing content that we know for a fact a user has access.
Re: Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book
#16Not to say that I don't think this is cool, but it seems impossible. How are you going to deal with the copyright issues of commercially printing work by arbitrary authors? (Not the part where you reformat stuff for a user to print at home -- the other part where you print it for them.)
Time and location shifting are protected, at least in the US. And with the exception of software that aggressively tries to prevent doing so, backups are also considered fair use. If you share the material with someone else, you're into infringement territory in most of the 1st World and substantially beyond, as far as I'm aware. If I tried to do this as a service, I'd probably get sued to the stone age, and I'd dese…
> If I tried to do this as a service
Isn't that what this post is about? They are planning to print a physical book made up of arbitrary text chosen by the user and then ship that book to the user.
Re: Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book
#17Also check: https://waldenpond.press/ Similar goal.
Perfect, thanks for sharing!
Re: Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book
#18Also check: https://waldenpond.press/ Similar goal.
You know that technology took a wrong turn a ways back when a website called "Walden Pond" displays this banner: "Looks like you've got JS turned off. Quite a lot of things won't work properly."
The site does look interesting though.
Re: Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book
#19Great idea; I'll add it to my "read later" folder. Joking aside, this does sound like something I'd actually use and the formatting on the resulting document is very pretty. And just to let you know, your "Buy us a coffee" link gets jumbled at lower screen widths.
Haha! Thanks for the nice words! Snap, it seems we are not getting coffee anytime soon :p
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