File under something a 90 year old who has avoided learning to use a computer/tablet would ask their grandchild to invent. Truly creative way to waste a lot of paper and infringe on copyright!
Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book
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#52I'd suggest speeding up the animations in your video. The first one in particular seems too long.
Thanks for the feedback, we wanted to portray the real life scenario (it takes some time unfortunately), but understand that we can do a much better job passing on key info faster. Noted!
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#53I bring this up occasionally: If you use Pocket (built into Firefox and low-friction plugin for other browsers incl mobile) the Kobo e-reader is awesome. You can import Pocket articles to read offline and they are essentially displayed as epub e-books. They're also displayed in print-optimized format (no ads). E-ink ends up being a great way to read these long-form articles.
Definitely Pocket is a great service and provides a cool experience for online reading with its reader mode and integrations. But this is for the users that prefer online reading (definitely a lot). However we believe that lots of people would actually prefer paper. And I think paper should be an option up top with online reading and audio, when it comes to internet longform content. It's just really tough to get thi…
> But this is for the users that prefer online reading (definitely a lot).
What do you mean? Is 'this' referring to Pocket or your service?
Also:
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causes horizontal scroll on chrome/chromium/firefox.
Re: Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book
#54This looks really great! Will be keeping an eye on it. I work on something somewhat similar at https://pdf.fivefilters.org/simple-print/ - just focused on single articles though.
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#55I would pay money to have my Pocket backlog printed as a softcover book. I actually do that with scientific papers: if I have a long trip planned, I'll go to my university's reproduction office, and have them make a book with them. Well worth the price!
Interesting, thanks for sharing your pre trip workflow!
We can definitely help with this, just need to figure out an efficient way to do so, ie some form of integration vs you manually re-uploading them with Screenbreak
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#56Hi, I made something very similar a few months back https://getpulp.io
I'm no longer working on it (the service is shut down), and have since transitioned to a new project, but I would be happy to chat. Do you have an email I can reach out to? If not comfortable sharing, feel free to reach out to me on twitter.com/outofthebot
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely Pocket is a great service and provides a cool experience for online reading with its reader mode and integrations. But this is for the users that prefer online reading (definitely a lot). However we believe that lots of people would actually prefer paper. And I think paper should be an option up top with online reading and audio, when it comes to internet longform content. It's just really tough to get thi…
> But this is for the users that prefer online reading (definitely a lot). What do you mean? Is 'this' referring to Pocket or your service? Also: .scribble-4 { right: -2%; } causes horizontal scroll on chrome/chromium/firefox.
Pocket and generally people that prefer reading online. I meant that it is a great solution for this usecase
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#58I'd be keen for a service that made a nice pdf for reading on an e-reader, but a physical book just feels wasteful. Exploring a pocket to pdf to kindle pipeline is on my todolist using either https://www.printfriendly.com or https://www.api2pdf.com If anyone has done something similar would love to some feedback.
Not directly related, but I'm working on building a tool to automatically send newsletters right to your Kindle: https://newsletterstokindle.com
I've been beta testing it for a while and love reading longer articles/newsletters right on my e-reader
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#59Hi, I made something very similar a few months back https://getpulp.io I'm no longer working on it (the service is shut down), and have since transitioned to a new project, but I would be happy to chat. Do you have an email I can reach out to? If not comfortable sharing, feel free to reach out to me on twitter.com/outofthebot
Hey, thanks for reaching out. Happy to chat, feel free to reach out at yorgos@myscreenbreak.com. Will get in touch on twitter in any case
Re: Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book
#60I bring this up occasionally: If you use Pocket (built into Firefox and low-friction plugin for other browsers incl mobile) the Kobo e-reader is awesome. You can import Pocket articles to read offline and they are essentially displayed as epub e-books. They're also displayed in print-optimized format (no ads). E-ink ends up being a great way to read these long-form articles.
For kindle i use a plugin called "push to kindle". https://www.fivefilters.org/push-to-kindle/