“Read later” usually meansRead never.
Instead, get a custom, printed magazine filled with your favorites.
Send those long form articles in and get a real world magazine that surprises you in your mailbox and inspires you to take a field trip to the nearest park bench to actually read them.
From stray tab to your mailbox
Save it, close the tab
See something you want to read? Save it with one click from the Chrome extension, or forward it to your own private email address. Either way, it's handled.
Your magazine starts building
Every article you save gets added to your growing next edition.
It prints itself, then finds you
Once you've saved about 100 pages worth, we print the issue and drop it in the mail. It shows up in your mailbox ready for you, and all that's left is finding the park bench.
Read somewhere better
than your desk.
The last thing you want to do is scroll articles on the same screen you've been looking at all day. More open tabs is a chore, not a treat.
So take the excuse to get out of your office and read those same articles, somewhere new. The park, the local coffee shop and the nearest train window are all calling your name.
Long reads work better out there, too. A 6,000-word essay is a slog to scroll but a pleasure to hold.
Perfect-bound, around 100 pages: black and white interior on recycled or FSC-certified stock, full-color cover, typeset like the magazine it is.
Ten trees per issue
We print on real paper, recycled or FSC-certified, because we think it's the best way to read the things you've saved.
We also want to be honest about what that costs and do more than our part to replant. So for every issue we send to you, we plant ten trees in your name.
If you want to see the running totals, check out the ledger.
Before you ask
Anything you'd read in a browser: articles, newsletters, or that 40-minute longread you've had open since March. Your browser does the saving, so even paywalled stuff you're logged into comes through fine. And if it's an email newsletter, you can forward it straight to your custom email address.
We send you a new issue whenever you've submitted enough articles to fill one up. If you're saving stuff all the time, it may be every couple of weeks. If you save less often, maybe a month or so. But the fun of it really is the surprise of when it shows up in your mailbox.
Around $49 a month when we launch. Printing, shipping, and ten planted trees included.
Ready for your first issue?
Dead Tree Digest is being built one subscriber at a time. Drop your email below and we'll get you set up.
Around $49 a month when we launch.