Overview

Think of Paperback like any other Pinboard client or app. It interacts with the Pinboard to make your life a little easier. Paperback focuses on helping you read the articles you have stored in Pinboard. Paperback doesn't archive articles onto it's own servers, it just reads and writes information back to Pinboard when you do something like tag, add notes, or mark an article as 'read'.

Something To Read

• Use Pinboard's "To Read" option or define your own tag to get a list of articles to read. No matter which way you go, Paperback will parse the content of the article to make it easy to read and organize
• If you use your own tag to organize items you'd like to read, Paperback will keep up with you. Anytime you archive or add an article through Paperback, it will follow suit and use (or remove) that tag
• Light and dark theme
• Customizable font size, article width, position, arrangement, and more
• Select text to highlight and view highlights inline

Data Retention Policy

• Persistent data is only username, email, token, setting; Not encrypted
• Any article data is cached with expiry. The default expiry is 30 days but this will be configurable in the future
• Data isn't encrypted at rest and Paperback shouldn't be considered highly secure though I've done my best to follow standard procedures to keep things safe

Popular

The web is a noisy place. A lot of people use Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit to keep up with interesting links and articles across the web. Quit that. Pinboard's Popular list has a great list of articles saved by fellow anti-social Pinboard users. I've been using an alpha version of this feature for a couple years before introducing it into Paperback and I've often seen links in Popular before they've hit my Slack channels or conversations. It's a calm, collected way of staying in the loop without the mess.

You can also use added settings to filter the list of Popular articles. Want to see only 10 articles? Great. Don't ever want to see a link about "ios" ever again? Me too. Or if you're over "techcrunch.com", filter away.

Cached for offline Reading (beta)

• When you load the reading list and articles either in the browser or in the web app installed to your home screen, Paperback will cache the pages
• Paperback will work even when you're offline to read any previously cached articles
• This doesn't include background sync. Articles will not be cached unless you've loaded the list and the article was contained in the list
• This could still be buggy so please let me know your experience with it

Forwarding Email

• Forward to the address in settings, like fwd+username+token@readpaperback.com and Paperback will store the HTML of the email and add a permanent link to Pinboard

Exports

• Send to Kindle
• Markdown, PDF, Word doc

Some Nice Extras

A few slick features to smooth out your reading experience:

• Select a word to get a popover with a definition
• Automatically hide and re-show the cursor when using keyboard shortcuts to scroll in an article so it doesn't get in your way
• Easily add tags with shortcuts like 1 to add the author to tags
• If you have the 'expanded' view of an article, with the "Update article" sheet open (the keyboard shortcut is e, if you're focused in the Extended form (which i will do), you can use cmd+j to scroll down in the article while staying focused in the field. This is great for taking notes while reading
• When you hit tab Paperback will focus on the next link in view, rather than focusing on the next link on the page.
• If you use Pinboard's read later bookmarklet found on the howto page to add links to Pinboard, you can update the part that has pinboard.in/add to readpaperback.com/add to take advantage Paperback's background caching. This will help Paperback load faster next time you visit
• Paperback is built with simple server-side HTML meaning it can be used without Javascript turned on in your browser using plugins like NoScript or work in a terminal-based browser like, my favorite, w3m.