Give Yourself Some Time
“Give yourself some time to write, to record, to photograph, to think.”
David Tate: “The Dangerous Effects of Reading”
Instapaper 3.0 Released
Both the app and the website now have full-featured, native sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinboard, and Evernote…
…much faster updates and downloads, far less space usage on your iPhone and iPad, and much less bandwidth usage over your 3G connections.
You are using Instapaper, right?
(via Minimal Mac)
Three Weeks with Kindle (a.k.a. Instapaper Reader)
I’ve owned the Kindle for about three weeks now. It’s still primarily an Instapaper reader for me. Mainly because I’m hesitant to buy a digital version of a book that I can’t share with others, especially when I can get a used, hard copy for cheaper than the Kindle edition in most cases. Also, I can’t use it at my library.
So, while I really like the device, I’m frustrated by my lack of options for sharing and purchasing books.
I knew all of this before I made my purchase, and I’m still using the heck out of it. But, as I mentioned, it’s primarily for web articles, oddly enough.
Rumor has it Amazon will allow sharing, but only for 14 days (not bad, but not long enough) soon. I wish Amazon was more open about their plans for Kindle and the community aspect (and potential) of the device.
Stephen also has some good questions from the view of a librarian.
How I Read the Internet
I read a lot online. The internet has been good to me. But it needs filters. I follow 241 people on Twitter, and that number is growing. Those folks post a lot of links I want to read, but often don’t have time to at the moment they post it.
Enter Instapaper. Integration with Twitter apps and all my browsers, and a iPhone app. Brilliant and simple. If it’s worth reading, I’ll “read it later.”
My other favorite tool is Readability, which makes most websites 20 times better by cutting out the sidebars, ads, Flash, and other crap and just giving me the article I want to read, in a wonderful typeface of my choosing, at the size I prefer.
I’ve set my father-in-law up with Readability, because he, too, hates the crap on websites that disturb good content. It’s good stuff. Arc90 deserves a medal.
So here’s how I read the internet:
- Twitter to Instapaper (to read later) or to Safari/Readability
- Safari to Instapaper or Readability (depending on time)
- Google Reader in Fluid with Helvetireader
- Email – I still prefer some email newsletters and Feedburner because it, again, is just the content.
More goodness:
- Give Me Something to Read – a list of the most “Instapapered” articles.
- Netvibes – was my primary for a long time. Works well with Fluid.
- Instapaper Restyled
