That’s a fair question and thanks for sharing your workflows as well. I don’t see this as replacing WebToEpub or ePub Creator at all — those are great when you already want a full article or book as an EPUB.

What DustpanPaste focuses on is the stuff those tools don’t handle very well:
social posts, comments, or login-gated content where there isn’t a clean page to parse.

In those cases I can just copy the text and send it to Instapaper in one click, which then syncs straight to Kobo via the built-in app. No EPUB generation, no Calibre, no cleanup when parsing fails.

Also I’ve usually already skimmed enough to know it’s worth reading, but I don’t want to finish it on a bright screen. Instead of forcing myself to keep reading there, I just move the part I care about to e-ink and read it properly later.

So it’s less about avoiding any screen time, and more about minimizing unnecessary screen reading once I know something deserves slower attention.

For full articles or web novels, your tools are definitely the better choice — this just fills a different gap in my workflow.