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

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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…

This is a great story thanks for sharing, and I think it can be useful for the poster of screenbreak above. My knee jerk reaction when I saw the product was, wow I can create a book of all the articles I read in 2020 and make it a coffee table book. It is a good gift to give close friends as the articles that shaped your year, or one to reminisce on, but above all this book needs to be picture heavy, it needs to feel like a magazine or coffee table book to have mainstream appeal. I hope OP tests this out, there is def a market here

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

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post #111
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…

This is a great story thanks for sharing, and I think it can be useful for the poster of screenbreak above. My knee jerk reaction when I saw the product was, wow I can create a book of all the articles I read in 2020 and make it a coffee table book. It is a good gift to give close friends as the articles that shaped your year, or one to reminisce on, but above all this book needs to be picture heavy, it needs to feel…

Hey, OP is taking notes! Coffee table value is definitely a thing

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

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post #113

The lack of a "Pricing" link on the homepage put me off from exploring further. Please at least add a link and a page for it even if it's free for now with the terms and conditions.

Thanks for the reply, haven't thought about this that way. Honest answer, we haven't decided on a pricing plan just yet (thoughts are always welcome). Will defo consider making more prominent that it is currently free + T&Cs

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

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I'd paid good money to get this done for my reddit saves, catalogued somehow.

Noted and added to canny, we will consolidate all the feedback shared there. Feel free to add any other ideas :) https://feedback.myscreenbreak.com/feature-requests

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

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post #117

Can you send an order to my local printing shop for them to print those on nice small booklets with nice paper? And for them to ship the booklet

Hi, interesting question! What is your concern vs us delivering straight to your door? We should be able to offer a variety of sizes/qualities. If though there is a reason for which we wouldn't be of help, we may consider instead of sending books, to offer production ready .pdf files, which you can share with your printing shop. Noted

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

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post #80

Neat idea. Any way to batch import sources from pocket or apple’s read later in safari or similar sources?

Not yet, because we do not save articles via url but via our extension which snapshots html. That way, we can offer our service to user's paid content as well. Having said that, and based on the feedback we read tonight in this thread, integrating with pocket and similar sources in some way, shape or form seems like a top priority!

Thanks! Do you have an email list for updates?

I have a big pocket backlog I’d love to turn into a book somehow. Which I could then skim.

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

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post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not yet, because we do not save articles via url but via our extension which snapshots html. That way, we can offer our service to user's paid content as well. Having said that, and based on the feedback we read tonight in this thread, integrating with pocket and similar sources in some way, shape or form seems like a top priority!

Thanks! Do you have an email list for updates? I have a big pocket backlog I’d love to turn into a book somehow. Which I could then skim.

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