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Hi, interesting question! What is your concern vs us delivering straight to your door? We should be able to offer a variety of sizes/qualities. If though there is a reason for which we wouldn't be of help, we may consider instead of sending books, to offer production ready .pdf files, which you can share with your printing shop. Noted

Noted and added to canny, we will consolidate all the feedback shared there. Feel free to add any other ideas :) https://feedback.myscreenbreak.com/feature-requests

Thanks for the reply, haven't thought about this that way. Honest answer, we haven't decided on a pricing plan just yet (thoughts are always welcome). Will defo consider making more prominent that it is currently free + T&Cs

Hey, OP is taking notes! Coffee table value is definitely a thing

Same here, paper is powerful! Hope we can be of help with your workflows.

#grandfatherwisdom

Hi both, thanks for the comments, duly noted. We will make things right asap

Hi, yes, we snapshot the html page you are looking at (instead of just using the url) for that reason alone

Fair point and thanks for the feedback and suggestion!

Thanks for sharing. Save as pdf is quite crappy, at least from a reading experience point of you. Screenbreak would definitely offer the option to send your pdf to ereaders and support formats like epub/mobi, since our .pfds are derived from html

Thanks for sharing, that's cool and I can only assume the technical challenge back then. Hope we have a better ending but if you are still in touch with anyone from that dev team, plz intro me (yorgos@myscreenbreak.com). Maybe we can get this second chance! #roadtoredemption

Quite an interesting approach, thanks for sharing!

Interesting, noted!

Not yet, because we do not save articles via url but via our extension which snapshots html. That way, we can offer our service to user's paid content as well.

Having said that, and based on the feedback we read tonight in this thread, integrating with pocket and similar sources in some way, shape or form seems like a top priority!

Print on demand is a challenge by itself. Depending on where your offer the service, you can source local small printing facilities that focus on PoD. I have done that in UK where I am based. However for global reach you would need to partner with companies like blurb or lulu. We are exploring a combination of both but it is early to pick a clear winner. Logistics are hard, especially today, what can I say.

We will figure this out, rest assured!

Happy to see that there are more people out there sharing the same desire for online content on paper. We only share content for personal use after being 100% sure that user originally has access to said content (hence using extension vs urls)

Hello, tons to unpack here! - We do not support existing .pdf files, but defo in our radar - We didn't think too many people will have archives of html files, we could very well be wrong. Not supporting this currently but something we could do based on our architecture - We support searching for title/publications/authors etc, will definitely add searching within content too at some point

Current focus is to be able to streamline our processes and tech so we can indeed deliver some books facilitating a proper reading experience.

Jotting down all feedback, hope we had more resources to build more (hope we will eventually get this chance). any other ideas or thoughts, feel free to contact me directly at yorgos@myscreenbreak.com

Thanks, likewise :)

Thanks for that, will fix asap

Hey, thanks for reaching out. Happy to chat, feel free to reach out at yorgos@myscreenbreak.com. Will get in touch on twitter in any case

Pocket and generally people that prefer reading online. I meant that it is a great solution for this usecase

Interesting, thanks for sharing your pre trip workflow! We can definitely help with this, just need to figure out an efficient way to do so, ie some form of integration vs you manually re-uploading them with Screenbreak

Thanks for the feedback, we wanted to portray the real life scenario (it takes some time unfortunately), but understand that we can do a much better job passing on key info faster. Noted!

Haha, in a former life sure :p Maybe in this as well. You can try the file-print version and Screenbreak, hopefully there is a difference to the better. Our service will be free for you to do so (up to a certain usage degree), will be glad to know how this worked for you

Wow, thanks for sharing! Really interested to know more about memeoirs story, will get in touch!

Fair game. While not there yet and focused at the challenges that print production presents, we should be able to offer epub/mobi/mobile friendly/ereader friendly versions soon (since we create pdfs from html)

Definitely Pocket is a great service and provides a cool experience for online reading with its reader mode and integrations. But this is for the users that prefer online reading (definitely a lot). However we believe that lots of people would actually prefer paper. And I think paper should be an option up top with online reading and audio, when it comes to internet longform content. It's just really tough to get things right, fast and cost-effective but we will give it a shot

Thanks for this comment and taking the time, lot to unpack.

From a technical standpoint, you are correct that this is a massive challenge. However for us to eventually get something print production ready, we needed to build our own extraction software that preserves stylesheet, images, sequence etc. We will definitely face a lot of failures initially, but hopefully will be able to build interesting machine learning models that will make the service much better over time. We have already built tools that will enable us to fix most of the possible issues pre-production.

About the legal concerns, we will be printing content, we know 100% user already has access to, for its personal use. Won't be any different than creating a pdf file (eg from file print) and going to a print shop with a usb to print it out (or stitch).

Regarding the video, it is slow, but this is the best we have made it to snapshot html, send it to our servers and extract the relevant info. We aim to make it faster, but that's the reality and didn't want to show anything fake. Rendering could take even longer depending on size etc, obv tons of room for optimisation.

Thanks! You can try with a url here (https://demo.myscreenbreak.com/) but we are going to sunset this soon. We may add this within the app, but will create a safari extension as well.

Generally the main reason going through via extension is that we can then provide the service to paid content users have access to and we don't. There are other technical considerations too.