[HN Gopher] Consuming Articles Offline ___________________________________________________________________ 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. | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-30 23:00 UTC)