Instapaper and reading on the iPhone
I've been finding Instapaper really useful lately for reading longer articles from the web.
Instapaper facilitates easy reading of long text content.
We discover web content throughout the day, and sometimes, we don’t have time to read long articles right when we find them.
Instapaper allows you to easily save them for later, when you do have time, so you don’t just forget about them or skim through them.
A one-click bookmarklet adds it to your list and there's an iPhone application for reading the articles. It works for me, giving good clean text for in-depth reading on my iPhone during my daily train commute. It's more like reading a book than a feedreader and I think that mode of reading is valuable. Anyway, some of my recent favourites...
Paul Morley on how a year studying at the Royal Academy of Music changed him
Leviathan or, The Whale | PD Smith
Pitchfork: Poptimist: Poptimist #23 on the charts
3quarksdaily on "DESIRE PATHS: READING, MEMORY AND INSCRIPTION"
The Best Bits » American Scientist - A new technology called compressive sensing slims down data at the source
If you use Instapaper you can subscribe to my starred articles using my username, tristanf.
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Any clue on how to subscribe to your starred articles using your username? I've been using Instapaper for ages but haven't seen that option around.
Click on the "Add folders" link on the left of your Instapaper page, then select "Another user's Starred items" and enter an Instapaper username. I haven't tried it because I don't know any other active users, hoping they might come out of the woodwork...
Ah, magic. I'm sweeney on Instapaper.
I've not been in the habit of starring many articles, but I'll see to it that I do from now on.
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