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

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Post by throwayws »

jxramos wrote: post #39

I like this idea, I've been debating the mental clutter digital experiences can add to the mix. There's something about tangible things anchoring the mind. Like the most recent example we forayed into is looking to purchase a physical kitchen timer just to find and crank the thing and get a reminder going. The barrier there is so low that I think we'd actually get in the habit of timing things more readily. Compared…

Anchoring the mind ... small thoughts.

Deciding what to focus on yourself instead of the app showing you random screens which the developer thinks are currently important. The tool being out of the way and only the important things in-front of you. Where only you yourself decide what is important.

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

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Post by gnicholas »

hinkley wrote: post #12
wool_gather wrote: post #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.)

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…

> Time and location shifting are protected, at least in the US.

Can you share a citation for this? I'm a (former) lawyer and have never heard of a blanket protection for time and location shifting. It might be allowed for certain types of copyrighted content, or if done by the end-user. But I don't think there's a blanket allowance for all copyrighted materials, especially when a third party is involved.

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

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Post by yorgos_kats »

jamez wrote: post #34

A few years ago I founded a company that did something very similar. The idea of Memeoirs[1] was that, back in the 2000s, some of your most thoughtful and interesting conversations happened via email. You could trace the story of your life collecting some of your most important emails with our webapp, which worked with Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook, and then have a printed version mailed to you. It all started in a simila…

Wow, thanks for sharing! Really interested to know more about memeoirs story, will get in touch!

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

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Post by jxramos »

throwayws wrote: post #41
jxramos wrote: post #39

I like this idea, I've been debating the mental clutter digital experiences can add to the mix. There's something about tangible things anchoring the mind. Like the most recent example we forayed into is looking to purchase a physical kitchen timer just to find and crank the thing and get a reminder going. The barrier there is so low that I think we'd actually get in the habit of timing things more readily. Compared…

Anchoring the mind ... small thoughts. Deciding what to focus on yourself instead of the app showing you random screens which the developer thinks are currently important. The tool being out of the way and only the important things in-front of you. Where only you yourself decide what is important.

Yah, I've been trying to articulate this weird like "leveraging of muscle memory" to increase productivity. App and OS UIs can often put too many small hoops in the way that you use some other part of your brain to jump through them. Muscle memory has a way of like bypassing and cutting to the chase and doesn't have this mental cost associated with a context switch if you will. Somehow doing something physical has some tie in with like a "mental background task" that doesn't disturb the "main thread" high level cognitive processes that I want reserved for matters that deserve deep attention.

I wonder if it has to do with the fact that there's a precision of attention in digital UIs just to click the right button and just all the aiming involved though simple actually has a pretty tight tolerance with fine motor skills and large room for error compared to a quick and dirty gross motion you can get away with for things in the real world. Hopefully that makes sense.

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

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Post by mttjj »

modzu wrote: post #31
mttjj wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any time you print something at FedEx they make you accept an agreement stating that you are not printing or copying copyrighted material. I'm guessing those other places have the same type of thing. Even if it's a piece of paper posted next to the printer at a public library stating "By using this printer you acknowledge that you are not printing or copying any material for which you do not have the right to copy."…

thats not quite correct, you just need the right to copy it, not to be the copy owner, and as mentioned elsewhere there are all sorts of scenarios where you indeed have such rights

Yep, you're right. What you said is what I intended. I've updated my comment.

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

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Post by yorgos_kats »

WraithM wrote: post #43

I love this idea, but I can't help but think that this is a very 2020 problem. Wouldn't you just print out your articles and bind them with a simple binder in a former life?

Haha, in a former life sure :p Maybe in this as well. You can try the file-print version and Screenbreak, hopefully there is a difference to the better. Our service will be free for you to do so (up to a certain usage degree), will be glad to know how this worked for you

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

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Post by MasterScrat »

I 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!

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