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I use a service that will pull selected articles from my Pocket account and formats and prints them to a nice booklet that is sent to me one a month. I find thi
by noyesno 4y ago
I use a service that will pull selected articles from my Pocket account and formats and prints them to a nice booklet that is sent to me one a month. I find this makes me more conscious when deciding whether to add an article to Pocket as I am now asking myself if I really want to read it later in the printed booklet (vs. just adding it to "the list" to remove it from the tab bar).
- broth 4y agoWhat is the service called?
- noyesno 4y agoWalden Pond (waldenpond.press)
- nicbou 4y agoIsn’t this absurdly wasteful?
- justsomehnguy 4y agoExcessive and unnecessary packaging (eg shrink-wrapped bananas) wastes magnitudes more material and energy than 12 booklets/year, including shipping. Of course, if @noyesno doesn't read it than it wasteful anyway.
- nicbou 4y agoYes, but this one is completely avoidable with zero effort. It's a personal decision to say "no, I need my articles written on dead trees and delivered to my doorstep".
- blitzar 4y agoThat dead tree is carbon sequestered from the atmosphere. Do you think the flashing lights of your monitor come at zero cost?
- nicbou 4y agoThe whole printing and delivery process, however, is not.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoIf it makes the person to read them - why not? Not everyone and everything are enjoyable on the screens, even if it's e-ink one. All shops near me still has the 'dead trees' stand with a glossy maculature - and while people occasionally buy them - most of them goes to the landfill anyway. THAT is wasteful.