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I kinda wish there was a separate news feed for these long, meandering but often interesting stories (I propose we call it hacker news after dark). over 3k words is kind of a big commitment for the kind of bathroom breaks I am normally reading hacker news on so wish the main feed was kept to sub 2 k word stories/news. The other problem also happens where I sit down to the kind of epic bathroom break where I could enjoy a longer form item like this and then only run into said longer form item after chewing up most of the time on 10-15 shorter articles (on second thought, we could rename the original feed to normal dump and this new feed to epic dump).

Product pitch - an app that appends "now wash your hands" to the end of every article linked from HN. Subscribe by spending a penny whilst you, er, spend a penny.

My request would be for a button which saves the article to a form which I can read on a kindle or remarkable at a good time, for example on the commute home.

Firefox has something like that called Pocket. I don't know how easy it is to send the articles to an e-reader.

Kobo readers at least have Pocket built-in.

If you use an ios device you can save webpages to Books directly from Safari. This creates a pdf that should be transferable to other e-reader devices.

I just tried it -- I couldn't figure out how to save directly, but I could save the page as a PDF to Files and then from Files share it to Books.

Note: if the page you are saving makes use of deferred loading of images you may need to scroll all the way down before starting this whole process.

Right. How are your bathroom breaks going anyway? Plumbing all working well, I hope! Drinking enough water?

Right as chocolate rain most of the time but sometimes it is cloudy with a chance of meatballs.

Good job!

Second that. I found myself thinking, "too many adjectives."

Out of the box solution: change your diet!

I call it "send to Kindle".

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