Show HN: Analog Reader – Turn newsletters into printable newspapers

Show HN: Analog Reader – Turn newsletters into printable newspapers(analogreader.com)

3 points by luskira 160 days ago | 2 comments

I absolutely hate what the internet does to my brain, to my capacity for focus, and to how little I retain information.

I've been slowly migrating away from reading online to offline. Started a few years ago with a reMarkable tablet, then an Onyx Boox for colored papers. But newsletters always fell off my radar. There's just too much going on in my inbox.

So I built a tool that takes any RSS feed (Substack, Ghost, etc.) and formats it as a printable newspaper.

Tech: Single HTML file, vanilla JS, no backend. Fetches feeds via CORS proxy (Cloudflare Worker). Renders into a 3-column A4 layout.

I don't own a printer, though, haha. I just send the PDF to my reMarkable. But I'm curious if there's interest in getting a personalized newspaper like this actually delivered to your door.

Would love feedback on the layout, and curious how others handle the "too many newsletters" problem.

alexpls 156 days ago |

Neat! Generating PDFs from RSS feeds is a great idea. Some thoughts:

I have a Kindle - something I'd find valuable would be having a digest of "Today's top stories" sent to my kindle's email address as an epub so I can check it out each day. But on Kindle, I think the 3 column layout would be too narrow to read - it makes sense on A4, but not smaller. How do you do your daily sync to ReMarkable?

btw, it looks like if I enter a direct link to an RSS feed it doesn't work (e.g. when testing it for my site, https://alexplescan.com/index.xml results in a blank page, but https://alexplescan.com works well)

> curious how others handle the "too many newsletters" problem

I like to have everything funnelled into my RSS reader, pick a few things that sound interesting each day, and archive the rest. For the getting everything into RSS part, I'm building https://mailgrip.io to help (it gets email newsletters into RSS feeds).

luskira 156 days ago | |

very interesting, mailgrip is pretty damn cool and is def a way i can see myself decluttering my inbox.

My daily sync is very manual at the moment, i use analogreader, generate pdf then drag it to remarkable on the mac app haha.

I can def take a look at Kindle screens and build alternate layouts for it!