Instapaper, or how to read stuff later

I recently came across a service on the great web called Instapaper. It solves the ancient internet problem of wanting to read long articles when one just haven’t got the time. Everyone has probably thought:

I’ll just save it and read it later…

It’s not easy to manage all these links and texts without any kind of system. This is where Instapaper comes in.

Instapaper is best used from a bookmarklet in your browser. It can be used both on a computer and a mobile platform such as an iPhone. It could look something like this:

It’s very easy to add a site to the reading list. Just navigate to the page, click on the Read Later bookmarklet and boom! To view the reading list and to actually read the articles, there is of course a website which looks something like the following. It has an archive for read items, and it has the ability to extract just the essential text from the websites.

I find the site best used as the Home Page of the browser. This way you see the reading list as a reminder everytime a new browser window is started.

If you have an iPhone, you will get a bonus! There is an app in the App Store which syncs with Instapaper on the web and makes it easy to manage and read items in the list.

The Instapaper iPhone app website has more information on how to use it.

[Instapaper] [iPhone App]