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If you have an iPhone, just use reader view, then print it but don’t select a printer and then share it. A PDF pops out. Then shove that in iCloud Drive or on y

If you have an iPhone, just use reader view, then print it but don’t select a printer and then share it. A PDF pops out. Then shove that in iCloud Drive or on your phone and read it later. No services or set up involved, works reliably and you can keep the PDF forever.

mi_lk 1y ago
if you have an iPhone just use Safari's Reading List. It syncs with iCloud https://support.apple.com/en-us/108970 https://support.apple.com/en-us/108970
- leakycap 1y ago
  As much as I like Reading List, I think the key benefit of the PDF approach is... > works reliably and you can keep the PDF forever I have a ton of Apple devices and maybe my Reading List is just messed up, but it doesn't seem to keep an offline cache that is reliable in any way and would be hard to search or organize (unlike the PDFs)
eviks 1y ago
PDF is almost a non-digital format, so awful reading experience on devices with different screen sizes, no good content search or even basic copy&paste. And you get no tagging in this scheme. So a major downgrade.
- crinkly 1y ago
  Apart from the device size issue this is untrue.
  - eviks 1y ago
    Of course it is, these form just a tiny subset of well known issues of PDF. Here is a simple illustration of a copy & paste fail from this very page: From html: a single sentence > Since mozilla announced the sunsetting of pocket, I started looking for alternatives, including building a light version for my personal use. But nothing came out of my research. From PDF: a newline split of a single sentence after light because PDF is generally too dumb to use sentences for text > Since mozilla announced the sunsetting of pocket, I started looking for alternatives, including building a light > version for my personal use. But nothing came out of my research.
    - crinkly 1y ago
      Literally works fine here. "volume needs to be the lowest possible. A minimisation problem needs two variables only and we have four in this case. However the volume and area formulas can be substituted into each other to give volume in terms of width." Cut and pasted from three lines of a PDF I am authoring right now.
      - eviks 1y ago
        > Cut and pasted from three lines of a PDF I am authoring right now. Literally a different use case. Do the steps from your actual workflow that I commented on instead of trying to find a variant where it works! Maybe the app you use adds special PDF clutches to make a paragraph a paragraph.

mi_lk 1y ago

if you have an iPhone just use Safari's Reading List. It syncs with iCloud https://support.apple.com/en-us/108970 https://support.apple.com/en-us/108970

leakycap 1y ago
As much as I like Reading List, I think the key benefit of the PDF approach is... > works reliably and you can keep the PDF forever I have a ton of Apple devices and maybe my Reading List is just messed up, but it doesn't seem to keep an offline cache that is reliable in any way and would be hard to search or organize (unlike the PDFs)

eviks 1y ago

PDF is almost a non-digital format, so awful reading experience on devices with different screen sizes, no good content search or even basic copy&paste. And you get no tagging in this scheme. So a major downgrade.

crinkly 1y ago
Apart from the device size issue this is untrue.
- eviks 1y ago
  Of course it is, these form just a tiny subset of well known issues of PDF. Here is a simple illustration of a copy & paste fail from this very page: From html: a single sentence > Since mozilla announced the sunsetting of pocket, I started looking for alternatives, including building a light version for my personal use. But nothing came out of my research. From PDF: a newline split of a single sentence after light because PDF is generally too dumb to use sentences for text > Since mozilla announced the sunsetting of pocket, I started looking for alternatives, including building a light > version for my personal use. But nothing came out of my research.
  - crinkly 1y ago
    Literally works fine here. "volume needs to be the lowest possible. A minimisation problem needs two variables only and we have four in this case. However the volume and area formulas can be substituted into each other to give volume in terms of width." Cut and pasted from three lines of a PDF I am authoring right now.
    - eviks 1y ago
      > Cut and pasted from three lines of a PDF I am authoring right now. Literally a different use case. Do the steps from your actual workflow that I commented on instead of trying to find a variant where it works! Maybe the app you use adds special PDF clutches to make a paragraph a paragraph.