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

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Post by boffinism »

yorgos_kats wrote: post #30
biztos wrote: post #25

I watched the video demo and I like the idea that I might easily get a PDF with nicer formatting than the default print styles. I would use that sometimes. However, I question whether this will work consistently, since in my experience it takes a lot of developer attention to cover all the design anti-patterns out there. It's a classic problem of course but I don't see why this is better than using something like Poc…

Thanks for this comment and taking the time, lot to unpack. From a technical standpoint, you are correct that this is a massive challenge. However for us to eventually get something print production ready, we needed to build our own extraction software that preserves stylesheet, images, sequence etc. We will definitely face a lot of failures initially, but hopefully will be able to build interesting machine learning…

Re the video, I get being honest, but no one wants to watch a video that's just endless loading animations. Instead how about:

Shot 1: an article Shot 2: "30 seconds later..." Shot 3: the finished product

That way I can see the product in action, know how long it actually takes to work, and not waste 30s of my life unnecessarily

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

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Post by byteface »

I worked at a place about 10 years ago where one of the projects was with penguin books. They spent 12 months with a team of several developers building this as amazing product for students where you could pick chapters from several books to print your own single book. All done in ajax which at the time was rare. It was really good. Random house media decided to not go ahead with, it I think because of copywrite rules etc and binned it. Felt for the devs. They were so proud and put many late hours in.

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

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Post by yorgos_kats »

byteface wrote: post #102

I worked at a place about 10 years ago where one of the projects was with penguin books. They spent 12 months with a team of several developers building this as amazing product for students where you could pick chapters from several books to print your own single book. All done in ajax which at the time was rare. It was really good. Random house media decided to not go ahead with, it I think because of copywrite rule…

Thanks for sharing, that's cool and I can only assume the technical challenge back then. Hope we have a better ending but if you are still in touch with anyone from that dev team, plz intro me (yorgos@myscreenbreak.com). Maybe we can get this second chance! #roadtoredemption

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

#104

Post by yorgos_kats »

sammorrowdrums wrote: post #100

That's effectively what ReMarkable is trying to achieve with its Read-On-Remarkable[1] extension to send web content to your e-reader. Now their reading software is currently much maligned (unlike the writing part which is apparently best-in-class), but if they improve things a little then it could also be a good solution. Of course print as PDF and send to any e-reader is also an option that doesn't involve printing…

Thanks for sharing. Save as pdf is quite crappy, at least from a reading experience point of you. Screenbreak would definitely offer the option to send your pdf to ereaders and support formats like epub/mobi, since our .pfds are derived from html

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

#105

Post by yorgos_kats »

boffinism wrote: post #101
yorgos_kats wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for this comment and taking the time, lot to unpack. From a technical standpoint, you are correct that this is a massive challenge. However for us to eventually get something print production ready, we needed to build our own extraction software that preserves stylesheet, images, sequence etc. We will definitely face a lot of failures initially, but hopefully will be able to build interesting machine learning…

Re the video, I get being honest, but no one wants to watch a video that's just endless loading animations. Instead how about: Shot 1: an article Shot 2: "30 seconds later..." Shot 3: the finished product That way I can see the product in action, know how long it actually takes to work, and not waste 30s of my life unnecessarily

Fair point and thanks for the feedback and suggestion!

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

#106

Post by kitbrennan »

MasterScrat wrote: post #49

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!

This is supported by https://waldenpond.press and only costs $10.

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

#108

Post by yorgos_kats »

johnnujler wrote: post #92

> “By navigating this website, you agree to our privacy policy” Where is the consent button? And what in the actual ef? What should one do if they click before your pop-up appears? Or click directly on a link from outside of your website? Please change it and don’t put your audience in a lose-lose.

Hi both, thanks for the comments, duly noted. We will make things right asap
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