Send us the newsletters, articles, and essays you collect online to read later. We prepare, order, and lay out your selections as a cohesive personal magazine, and post it to your door.
All month
Forward newsletters to your issue's email address, add long-form articles and essays with the browser extension, or upload links and files. Everything lands in one pile.
Press day
We process the pile and strip the unwanted elements. Then it’s set in a proper grid customized for you.
Post day
A5, saddle-stitched, on paper you can scribble on. We print it, stamp it, and post it. Reading it in a comfortable chair is your job.
A screen is a fine place to read quickly, and a little shallowly. It’s a poor place to spend an hour with a long essay while every tab is a siren call to distraction.
Paper offers spatial and tactile cues: the heft of what you’ve read, a paragraph that stays where you left it. Fewer distractions, better comprehension.
And many people simply prefer print: easier on the eyes, a pen in hand for the margins.
Quiet Issue turns your digital backlog into a physical object of value. By giving your reading a beginning, a middle, and an end, it replaces digital anxiety with the calm of a completed ritual.
Every issue is put together specifically for you. We edit and typeset your selections into a cohesive whole.
A5, saddle-stitched, on pencil-friendly recycled paper. Up to 120 pages per issue. (we’re flexible, not a hard limit.)
Your own issue cover, a table of contents, an overview of what’s inside the issue.
Author, publication, date, and an appendix of every link. The originals and linked content are a QR code away.
Graphs, diagrams, and pictures stay in. One type system, a proper grid, and wide outer margins made for a pencil.
No feeds, no ads, no popups, no comments, no infinite anything. When the issue ends, it ends.
Quiet Issue
11 pieces · 64 pages · 3 h 40 m of reading
01 · Cover
Quiet Issue · No. 00
…and three more, ending on purpose at p. 64
02 · Contents
Essay · from The Slow Review
There is a particular guilt attached to the unread tab. It sits at the edge of the day, patient as a housecat, and it multiplies.
6 · Quiet Issue
03 · Essay, p. 6
Field Notes · with figures
Fig. 4 — Arrivals at the north dock, hand-tallied
18 · Quiet Issue
04 · Feature, p. 18
“A reading backlog is not a to‑do list. It is a mood.”
A Field Guide to Marginalia
33 · Quiet Issue
05 · Pull quote, p. 33
Sunday Dispatch · No. 142
arrives by email · leaves by post
Begin with whatever you underlined this week. A commonplace book is a slow conversation with your own attention…
41 · Quiet Issue
06 · Newsletter, p. 41
Appendix A
Every original, one scan away. Nothing lost, only printed.
07 · Appendix, p. 62
QI
No. 00 was collected over four weeks, set in Newsreader & Instrument Serif, printed on 100 gsm recycled stock, and posted from Small Town with a first‑class stamp.
Next issue: whenever you’ve collected enough
08 · Back cover
Most people find a monthly issue is enough to start with, but if you’re a voracious reader, fortnightly is the way to go.
Postage is included in the price for USA and Canada. We send your issue to you by standard mail. It usually arrives in a few days.
Cancel anytime. If your first issue isn’t for you, we’ll refund it in full, minus the postal delivery cost.
Yes. We print strictly for your own personal reading. Think of it as a bound printout of your own reading list, not a republication. We never resell, publish, or share the content you send us, and every issue is addressed to exactly one reader: you.
If you can already read it in your inbox or logged into your browser, you can send it to us. We only ever see what you forward or clip; we don’t go looking for content ourselves, and we never bypass a paywall on your behalf.
Neither is a problem. A thin issue is still a proper issue, just fewer pages. If you send more than one issue can comfortably hold, we run the oldest pieces first and carry the rest over to your next one.
Not yet. Postage is currently included for the USA and Canada only. We’re looking into international rates. If you’re elsewhere, email us at hello@quietissue.com and we’ll let you know as soon as that opens up, or if would set up a custom arrangement.
Only the small editorial team that prepares and validates your issue. Your reading isn’t used for anything besides making your magazine, and forwarded emails are deleted once your issue ships.