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I know this is crazy but I want there to be a service where I can subscribe to a number of websites, and every week I get a printed hardcopy of all the content

by 1arity 11y ago

I know this is crazy but I want there to be a service where I can subscribe to a number of websites, and every week I get a printed hardcopy of all the content that I can leaf through. Eco-greenie-ologists be damned, I want my degradable, ephemeral paper to leaf through while lounging in a rocker chair drinking ice tea. Civilized. Now that's a browser. Solves the security issue right there, aint nobody tracking me now. I'd like to see 1337 kidz xploit that paper. Escalate that privilege , from my rocking chair! And let me choose from a number of layouts. The smell of that fresh printers ink, nothing like it! Bits and scroll bars and cookies. No taste, it's just trash.

halotrope 11y ago
Well, I think such a service exists: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2715617/The-Daily-Me-PaperLater-lets-turn-favourite-online-content-custom-5-newspaper-sent-direct-door.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2715617/The-D...
- 1arity 11y ago
  Thanks for the find. I feel ( from the pics ) this could be done better. And 5 quid for a newspaper!!!!
  - burkaman 11y ago
    You're asking for a individually customized newspaper with no ads or classifieds to support it, that probably needs custom editing every "issue" since no automatic formatter will work 100% of the time. I don't think 5 quid is so unreasonable. Although the service did fold so maybe it was too much.
    - 1arity 11y ago
      Ads are okay. Classy print ads are classy. 5 quid is way too much. Regardless of how the product is seen internally, 5 quid for what is perceived by the customer as a commodity ( a newspaper ) is too much.
DaveWalk 11y ago
What an interesting idea -- if I wasn't reading this webpage, I'd say it was a solution looking for a problem. But honestly I would love to try out something like this purely for novelty. It's like the definition of a horse-shaped car. (Or is that a car-shaped horse?)

by 1arity 11y ago

halotrope 11y ago

Well, I think such a service exists: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2715617/The-Daily-Me-PaperLater-lets-turn-favourite-online-content-custom-5-newspaper-sent-direct-door.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2715617/The-D...

1arity 11y ago
Thanks for the find. I feel ( from the pics ) this could be done better. And 5 quid for a newspaper!!!!
- burkaman 11y ago
  You're asking for a individually customized newspaper with no ads or classifieds to support it, that probably needs custom editing every "issue" since no automatic formatter will work 100% of the time. I don't think 5 quid is so unreasonable. Although the service did fold so maybe it was too much.
  - 1arity 11y ago
    Ads are okay. Classy print ads are classy. 5 quid is way too much. Regardless of how the product is seen internally, 5 quid for what is perceived by the customer as a commodity ( a newspaper ) is too much.

DaveWalk 11y ago

What an interesting idea -- if I wasn't reading this webpage, I'd say it was a solution looking for a problem. But honestly I would love to try out something like this purely for novelty. It's like the definition of a horse-shaped car. (Or is that a car-shaped horse?)