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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

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Post by as_ »

psandersen wrote: post #36

I'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.

I did something similar some years ago as a personal project to keep an usable and searchable local copy of the interesting stuff found online: a web app that fetch Pocket read later list, convert the articles to pdf stripping not useful parts (and ads), archive them in a Dropbox folder and finally delete the Pocket elements themselves to keep the list clear (and obtain a little more privacy).

Soon I will get a new e-reader, perhaps I could refresh and publish it on GitHub :)

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

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Post by yorgos_kats »

interestica wrote: post #53
yorgos_kats wrote: post #37

Earlier 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.

Thanks for that, will fix asap

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

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Post by jasonvorhe »

stephenhandley wrote: post #51

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!

Based on the other, more constructive, comments I guess you're not just rude but also mistaken. This seems to be a feature a lot of people could make use of.

Just because it's not something you'd like to use, there's no reason to be this dismissive.

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

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Post by stevenicr »

Is this going to be able to take in a combination of PDFs saved on my android phones and tablets (from web page surfing) and also pull in the html files I've saved pages via firefox on pcs and then perhaps spider my bookmarks and offer categories to scrape and save locally - and have a local app that can suggest publishing a few books of things sorted by category and checking that there is not too much white space on a page?

not cloud based? privacy? sorting, perhaps searching?

(Now looking for that shutup take my money gif)

Funny how saving pages on the pc with firefox saves html files and firefox on android makes pdfs I've always thought.

Been considering making some printed binders with some of this info to pass along for a while now.

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

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Post by yorgos_kats »

stevenicr wrote: post #65

Is this going to be able to take in a combination of PDFs saved on my android phones and tablets (from web page surfing) and also pull in the html files I've saved pages via firefox on pcs and then perhaps spider my bookmarks and offer categories to scrape and save locally - and have a local app that can suggest publishing a few books of things sorted by category and checking that there is not too much white space on…

Hello, tons to unpack here! - We do not support existing .pdf files, but defo in our radar - We didn't think too many people will have archives of html files, we could very well be wrong. Not supporting this currently but something we could do based on our architecture - We support searching for title/publications/authors etc, will definitely add searching within content too at some point

Current focus is to be able to streamline our processes and tech so we can indeed deliver some books facilitating a proper reading experience.

Jotting down all feedback, hope we had more resources to build more (hope we will eventually get this chance). any other ideas or thoughts, feel free to contact me directly at yorgos@myscreenbreak.com

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

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Post by yorgos_kats »

jpochtar wrote: post #50

I would love to pay money for this. It is exactly the case that there's lots of long-form online content I want to read, and would love to read on paper. I imagine copyright is a problem?

Happy to see that there are more people out there sharing the same desire for online content on paper. We only share content for personal use after being 100% sure that user originally has access to said content (hence using extension vs urls)

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

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Post by gxqoz »

gxqoz wrote: post #67

My alternative to catching up on longform articles when I don't want to read them on a screen is to just use Pocket's text-to-speech functionality and go for a walk.

And I'll add that my main feature request for Pocket is its inability to grab data behind some paywalls / PDFs. I want my data in this one place because I want a uniform way to read and highlight. I've developed a workaround where I manually copy the plain text of the site / PDF, do a little processing, upload an HTML version to my personal web server, then save in Pocket. But this is pretty cumbersome.
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