Failing having an eReader, it will even provide you with one-click conversion into a printable 2 or 3 column format at the font size of your choice. Or, it will provide you with a one-click conversion of ALL of your articles to an epub or mobi file that you can drop onto your eReader of choice. Even better is that Instapaper works with will automatically email your articles on a schedule that you devise directly to your Kindle. See something in your feeds that you want to read later? See a tweet from someone with a link to an article that you want to follow up on? One click, and it's saved to your Instapaper account. The iPad app especially is a great reading experience, but I've used it for over a year on my iPhone, and find it a very, very easy way to consume text.īut wait, as they say.there's more! In addition to the iPhone/iPad app, Instapaper integrates with a large number of other Apps, especially feed readers like NetNewsWire, Newsrack, and Reeder as well as Twitter applications like Tweetie and Twitterific (among others) support Instapaper integration. You can then view the article at the Instapaper site, but better yet, you can view your reading list on nearly any mobile device, either by visiting the mobile website directly or using one the iPhone/iPad app. When you find something you want to read later, you click the Read Later bookmark, and the text of that article is saved to your Instapaper account. You install Instapaper in the same way you do Readability.visit the site, make some choices, drag a bookmarklet to your browser bar. Instapaper solves this problem by allowing me to transform the online text into something that I can carry around with me, and access in a number of different ways. I often see references to articles that I'm interested in, but may not have time to read at the moment. Readability is an incredible help if you read online magazines, or other large text blocks online in a browser. Anytime you run across a long article, click the bookmark and Readability gives you a very legible version of the text. All you need to do is make your choices, and then drag the bookmarklet to your bookmark bar in your browser. Choices include style (Newspaper, Novel, eBook, etc), font size, and margin/line length. In the case of Readability, it performs some reformatting magic and strips all the cruft, sidebars, ads, and other surrounding junk on a webpage and gives you a nicely formatted chunk of text in a format that you choose. Readability is a bookmarklet, a little piece of javascript code that lives as a bookmark in your browser's toolbar that allows you to do something to the page that you are viewing. The two tools are the Readability bookmark from Acr90 Labs, and the Instapaper service. These two tools make reading long form text online so much easier and more convenient that I can't recommend them enough. As Instapaper creator Marco Arment once wrote, the market is big enough for multiple modern-day bookmarking services to thrive.I decided that this month I wanted to share a couple of very specific tools that I find invaluable for dealing with information online. Like Safari’s new ‘Reading List’ feature, none will kill the other. It’s also clearly pretty much what Instapaper does ( quite elegantly, I might add), but more than anything it is a welcome addition to the Pulse service that will likely not affect Instapaper usage all that much – I see myself using both alongside each other, actually. No other bells and whistles at this point, but it’s a clean and functional bookmarking app. Saving to Pulse of course means you can bookmark interesting stories you find on the Web in order to read them later on your Android or iPhone handset, or your iPad. Extensions for other browsers are ‘in the works’, I’m told. The startup is today debuting both a bookmarklet and a Chrome add-on that enables users to ‘save stories to Pulse’ with a mouse click. Alphonso Labs, the fledgling company behind Pulse, a nifty social news reader for iPhone, iPad and Android devices used by roughly 5 million people, aims to pose a challenge to simple bookmarking tool Instapaper (and a range of other bookmarking and ‘read it later’ apps).
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