[HN Gopher] Consuming Articles Offline
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       Consuming Articles Offline
        
       Author : BeetleB
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2021-12-30 18:51 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.nawaz.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.nawaz.org)
        
       | vorpalhex wrote:
       | The downside to losing links is that checking sources becomes
       | quite a bit more bothersome.
        
       | slickdork wrote:
       | For tough to digest content, having a physical medium makes it
       | much easier to comprehend for me. There's something about being
       | able to write all over it that maybe helps.
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       | I really hope e-readers get to the point as mentioned towards the
       | end where it replicates paper more accurately. High DPI, proper
       | size, easy to write on.
        
       | charwhee wrote:
       | I use a Kobo ereader and it's integrated Pocket reader. I use the
       | pocket extension for my browser to save articles, and then sync
       | with my Kobo over wifi. No advertisements, and much easier than
       | even the Calibre setup. If I want to automate blogs, I use ifttt
       | to save new posts to Pocket. So easy! The screens on the newer
       | Kobos are of course sharper.
        
       | trembonator wrote:
        
       | benjaminpv wrote:
       | I was surprised to read that they'd both tried and discarded an
       | e-reader due to its _lack_ of resolution: I owned a Kindle ~5
       | years ago and felt like the  'reading ergonomics' were terrific
       | and have to imagine they're even better now.
       | 
       | If anything, my main complaint was that the process of getting
       | the content I wanted to read on to the thing was the problem: no
       | matter what software or special formatting I used PDFs were
       | rendered terribly and the steps involved in using that 'send an
       | article to your Kindle' really cut into my desire to take an
       | article I saw on my normal computer and read it over there.
       | 
       | I know they've got large, monitor-sized eInk displays now so I
       | think the only thing standing between me and my ideal reader is a
       | more sophisticated way to reformat/reflow PDFs (I vaguely recall
       | Adobe saying they were going to make this a component of their
       | new reader?) and an easy way to 'cast' pages to it that performs
       | the same ad-stripping and reformatting that's mentioned in the
       | article.
        
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