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Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book

#1
Hi HN!

Being locked down with plenty of time in my hands, I clearly noticed a problem that I faced and also felt passionate about tackling.

- Excessive screen time in our day-to-day - Diminishing attention spans

It was consistently tough to properly read quality longform content online. From screen related tiredness to having ads and notifications pop up and demand a share of my attention, my focus was compromised.

Long story short, I wanted to read longform content that lives online (and there is a ton of high quality out there), in an inherent offline medium, paper :p

Fast forward 5 months, we just published the beta of (https://myscreenbreak.com) We are redesigning webpages from scratch and making them print optimised.

While we aim to be able to deliver physical books by q1 2021, our current print-at-home version for single articles and collections can give you an indicative idea of how v1 product will look like.

If there are any other paper/book loving weirdos out there, happy to hear and learn from them :)

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#3
Oh, 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.

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#4

Coincidentally I just saw someone (Avery Trufelman of 99% Invisible fame) ask for something just like this on Twitter a few days ago: https://twitter.com/trufelman/status/1312827037472763907

Awesome, thanks for bringing that to my attention and sharing that on twitter :)

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#5

Oh, 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.

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#7

Coincidentally I just saw someone (Avery Trufelman of 99% Invisible fame) ask for something just like this on Twitter a few days ago: https://twitter.com/trufelman/status/1312827037472763907

Awesome, thanks for bringing that to my attention and sharing that on twitter :)

Great site :)

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#8
Not 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.)

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#9
post #6

Maybe make that myscreenbreak.com a http link in your post because I had to read twice to find it. Usually Show HNs are meant to be direct links.

Thanks for noting, fixed. If not mistaken I was allowed either a direct link or text, so couldn't convey all the info in the title alone
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