your rss feeds
turned into a zine

It depends on your feed for the week, but we aim for around 10,000 words. Enough to sit down with a coffee a few times, but not enough to become a chore.

Fetching rss feeds is easy. The work is everything after it, a nice layout that folds and staples into a real booklet, surviving any printer, handling edge cases and pulling a readable issue out of a noisy week. For seven dollars a month you get four issues, beautifully formatted and packed with insights from your favourite writers that you can print and hold in your hand without the overhead, stress, and without the screen.

We grade posts for quality. Feeds that publish the whole post score high and go into the running; feeds that only tease a "read more" get marked down and usually dropped, pulled in only when a week is thin. So an issue leans on the writers who actually hand you the full piece, not the ones holding it hostage behind a click. Add anything you like, the grading decides what gets priority on the page.

It's a personal printout of feeds you already subscribe to — closer to printing an email than running a magazine. One copy, for you, from your own reading list. We don't redistribute it, resell the content, we don't scrape anything to sidestep paywalls, or reprint anything that isn't publicly available or that you couldn't read in your existing feed reader.

One zine a week is a few sheets and pennies of toner — a coffee a month on a laser printer. Every issue is set as a fold-and-staple booklet, double-sided and suitable for black-and-white printing, so you print a slim zine, not a novel. It's the cheapest screen break you'll find.

We deliberately don't — and it's a point of principle, not a missing feature. The moment we print a stack of other people's writing and mail it to you for money, we've stopped making your personal zine and started selling a magazine we have no rights to. We won't do that to the writers. Printing it yourself keeps every copy personal, from your own reading list. No printer at home? A library or copy shop will run it off for a couple of dollars.

We want each issue to be a surprise. It is random — but not exactly a free-for-all. We grade every post for quality first, then draw your issue at random from the ones that clear the bar. The surprise is the point, but always taken from a pool of good stuff. You read from writers worth following, not whatever your monkey brain would've clicked.

It's real, the research shows comprehension slips most for dense, informational text and when you're rushed, and it narrows with practice. The real benefit is simpler: paper is just more fun. It has no notifications, no open tabs, and nothing one swipe away, so you can actually finish what you start.

We keep only what we need to operate; your list of feed URLs, settings and nothing else — we fetch, grade, format. We don't collect metrics on what you read and we'll never sell your data. A self-hostable version is something we'd love to build — no promises on timing yet, but it's the direction if there is demand.

Every issue is a plain PDF you can download or print directly — it lives on your disk and in your printer tray, not locked inside our app. If we vanished tomorrow, you'd still hold every zine you ever made, and your feed list is a thirty-second copy-paste to set up somewhere else.

Because those are still screens — with a battery, a sync, and a queue waiting to tempt you. E-ink is lovely, read-it-later apps are great but your personal paper zine is just fun. Paper has nothing behind it. You read it, remember more, and set it down. Paper is the point.