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Bookmarks? I just print-to-PDF. Offline, permanent, safe. Bookmarks have never been useful.
by ibisum 12y ago
Bookmarks? I just print-to-PDF. Offline, permanent, safe.
Bookmarks have never been useful.
- onion2k 12y agoA print of a page is not the same as a bookmark. Rather than a link to a point in time (which is what your print out is), a bookmark is a pointer to the latest version of a page. That has many benefits if the page is actively updated. The cost of that advantage is that it can fail completely if the page is taken down. Ideally a browser should cache a page when you bookmark it and optionally refresh the cache when you revisit. That way, if you get an error you could look back at the cached version instead. In fact, that'd be a damn useful browser plugin.
- vitovito 12y agoBut that only helps you. That doesn't help anyone else who needs that old reference. Saving things in a way that those backups can be shared and distributed, like WARC files donated to the Internet Archive, can help ensure that when your hard disk crashes and your backups fail and you lose those PDFs, the things you wanted to save will still be out there.