![]() The free version of the Instapaper app works just fine, but the US$4.99 version lets you work with your Instapaper folders and includes several customization options. The Instapaper app, however, offers a great interface for viewing your tagged links.įolder view (left) and Read Later list (right) in the Instapaper app. If you sync your bookmarks with your iPhone or iPod touch, you don't need to do anything extra to take advantage of Instapaper when you're on the go. Your folders appear on the left side of your Read Later list, and you can put individual links into specific folders by clicking their Move button. It's easy to build up a list of articles that's impractical to scroll through, so Instapaper lets you add folders for organization. To see your Instapaper Web page list, head back over to the Instapaper Web site. The Web page will appear in your Instapaper Read Later list. To tag a Web page for later reading, just click the Read Later bookmarklet in your bookmark bar. Next, drag the Read Later bookmarklet from the Instapaper Web page to your Web browser bookmark bar.Īdd the Instapaper bookmarklet to your browser for quick tagging. Just point your Web browser to the Instapaper Web site and sign up. You'll need a free Instapaper account to get started. Instapaper solve that problem, and it's easy to use, too. That's great, but the URLs are too long: 30 characters, compared with 13 for bit.ly.Keeping track of everything you want to read online can be a real pain, especially if you're trying to keep track of articles and blog posts on the go. Instapaper has built-in Twitter integration, to let you tweet articles from within Instapaper. I'm excited to use it on the iPad when that device comes out later this month, because I foresee Instapaper will be even better on the larger screen. And in the article list view, the headlines of articles you've partly read have a tiny icon next to them. It adds pagination to scroll up or down a full screen at a time by tapping the top or bottom of the screen. Instapaper 2.2, the new version, includes a built-in mini-browser for viewing articles in their original format on the Web. If I were one of our pioneer ancestors, I would have died of laziness in a day. ![]() Yes, I have an app to help me read without moving my eyes too much. ![]() I like to move the text a couple of lines at a time that way, with the line of text I'm currently reading centered on the screen. Or you can scroll the text up and down by tilting the iPhone, adjusting the position of text with a slight movement of your hand. You navigate the column by tapping and dragging up and down, as you would on the Mobile Safari browser. You can work around this by bookmarking the printer-friendly versions of articles, which is also the best way to download multi-page articles. Many sites don't format well, Instapaper fails to eliminate the navigation sidebars and other clutter from some sites (including Computerworld). Instapaper removes ads and attempts to remove navigation sidebars and other clutter from the Web site - not always successfully. Later, when I have time, I fire up the iPhone Instapaper app (free for a lite version, $5 for full functionality), which downloads all the articles I've bookmarked for later reading, and presents them reformatted for easy reading on the small screen, including scaled-down versions of graphics.
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