It’s always lived on my iPhone’s home page, and, as you can surmise, that’s because I use Instapaper a lot. Thing is, I want to tell you how Marco has made a magical machine for people who have decided to read.įor years, Instapaper has been one of the best made, most used, and most beloved apps in my iOS ecosystem. (As you may already know, I’m a big Marco fan.) Because, if it’s not already obvious, Marco’s little app (and its associated services) enjoys a rabid fanbase of sundry paragraph cultists who are as eager as I am to spread the word and, yes, we do want you to join the Reading Nerd cult.īut, I also want to mark the occasion by adding a few thoughts on exactly what Instapaper has done, and continues to do, for me. Now, it’s fortunate and appropriate that you’ll be hearing this advice at length from a lot of people this week. I promise you’ll be treating yourself to a massive update to an already excellent product. This is fantastic news, and–as if you needed one more of Marco’s beta testers to say so–I do sincerely hope you’ll mark the occasion (and support his hard work) by purchasing the Instapaper iOS app(s). The lede here is that my pal, Marco, has just released the stellar new 4.0 version of his Instapaper suite. So Readability and Instapaper are what I can use.Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone However, both options only allow the page to be added to the Pocket queue, there’s no way to just get a Pocket view display of the page. Pocket too gives bookmarklets and tools for publishers. Unfortunately, there’s no similar URL to simply show the page in an Instapaper view without adding to queue. For publishers Instapaper gives an URL that will add the page to the reader’s Instapaper queue. Instapaper too gives bookmarklets for readers – the “Instapaper Text” bookmarklet one is what I am interested in. I don’t want a block of buttons – in my case, all I want is to offer users a link they can click to get the page in a Readability view.įor readers Readability offers the bookmarklets I mentioned earlier. I wrapped the “Read Now” bookmarklet as a link for my purpose (as I’ll show in a bit). What I don’t like about the embed code, though, is that it pulls in JavaScript from their website and adds a block of buttons to my posts. It also lets you add the page to Readability, print it, send to Kindle, or email – useful stuff. This is good in that it allows one to read the page in a Readability view without adding to Readability (similar to what I did yesterday using the bookmarklet). I prefer Readability over Pocket as its iOS app is terrific, but Readability’s Android app sucks (poor UI, syncing issues, doesn’t keep track of my last read location) and so I use Pocket rather than Readability.įor publishers Readability offers an embed code. For some posts that Instapaper has difficulty rendering (mostly posts with a lot of code, pictures) I use Pocket. Sure, it doesn’t have any ads or widgets, and the posts appear clean on a browser as my emphasis is on the text/ code, but that doesn’t translate well to a mobile device as the fonts are small and a bit of zooming and scrolling is required to hide the left sidebar and other bits.Įventually I read the post using a Readability bookmarklet I had on the mobile browser so that got me thinking I must add quick links to do this for each post so any visitors can take advantage of the same. That made me realize my blog doesn’t have a mobile friendly view. Yesterday I went back and read one of my older posts from my tablet.
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