An independent browser experimentFor the desktop. And the discerning.
Paperweight.

Extra! Extra! Less, actually.

Finally,
the web
in print.

A browser that turns web pages into PDFs.
For reading the internet, not wrestling with it.

First edition in preparation. DMG coming soon.

An early experiment for macOS. Requires installed Chrome or Chromium.

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The Sunday Internet

The lost art
of just reading.

In which we open a page, settle in, and let it be a page.

There is a particular pleasure in a page that stays put. A beginning, a middle, a generous margin.

No need to tap a bell. No need to smash anything. Just a few words, patiently waiting to be read.

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Continued, without interruption

A little breathing room.

The internet has plenty to say. Sometimes it helps to give it a different format.

Paperweight renders the page as a PDF. The links still work. The words are still yours to select. The rest can wait.

All the web
that’s fit
to print.

Two pages side by side. A comfortable zoom. One less reason to open another tab.

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Fig. 1 A browser with a promising future in stationery. Illustration, not a screenshot.

01 / The format

Pages. Remember those?

Web pages rendered as actual PDFs, with selectable text and links you can follow. Same internet. Different paper trail.

02 / The reading room

Make yourself comfortable.

Read single-page or two-up. Fit the page, fit the width, or choose your own zoom. There’s room to find your reading rhythm.

03 / The small print

A reader, not a do-everything.

Lovely for blogs and articles. Not built for forms, video, logins, or web apps. It’s a prototype with deliberately modest ambitions.