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Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by gregsadetsky on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:27PM (#27885778)
There was an interesting discussion about this a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23228098

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This is still not as powerful as my one, simple trick to handle all bookmarks, ever: Print to PDF. I've been doing it since last century, and I have 10's of thousands of PDF's of every single web page I've ever found interesting, sitting right there in a directory on my computer

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Including the suggestion that was brought up to use ripgrep to search in the pdf text content.

Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by anigbrowl on Monday July 19, 2021 @05:24PM (#27887423)
Sometimes if I'm researching a topic I'll dig up a big number of newspaper articles and want to print them and read them away from the screen while scribbling notes etc, but on a lot of websites banner ads or footers with copyright statements can really mess it up.