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by meehow 2378 days ago
I had similar problem and wrote a browser addon: https://2read.net/ It converts websites to "readable" form and if you have IPFS running, it will also "pin" content locally. In most cases it works better than just printing an article. Here is an example with mentioned article: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmYPkcXgKLBye3L8M1VJWsGAb2mJXkJSEncqcSC...
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This is brilliant! I like the fact that it also cleans up the page. I don't know much about MFS but I see there's a video linked from the add-on description so will take some time to listen. My main concern is what format is going to be always readable in the long term, so it should be either something widely accepted and distributed like PDF, or something that is going to be retro-compatible and always running smoothly in future machines. Thanks for your answer.
There is also HN discussion about this addon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18965729
For those interested, here's n HN discussion about the IPFS distributed files system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18650375