I have just included a new feed into the sidebar showing some articles I want to read in the near future. The engine that drives this feed online and independently from the computer I use is powered by Instapaper. Although Google Reader allows to bookmark feed links too, sometimes I really want to read an article or a post à tête reposée.
How does it work? – All you have to do is register with a valid e-mail address. To use Instapaper efficiently you should also install a button you can (re)name yourself which will bookmark the pages of your choice in your Instapaper account with one click from your Safari or Firefox browser window. Then all you have to do is save the feed address of your account somewhere, e.g. on your blog or in your favourite feed reader and you will be able to access the pages bookmarked for later reading when the right moment has come to concentrate on it.
So here we go. I hope that this list will not get too long else I could stick to my ever growing Google Reader Starred Items list. ;)
[EDIT] Here is a screenshot of a bookmarked pape in Instapaper Text Mode for onscreen reading:
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I’ve never used either, but to me that sounds like del.icio.us?
I think the purpose is to save just those articles you really want to read onscreen, just as you would read a newspaper article. So there is an option to represent articles in text-mode. I have included a screenshot in the post to make this clear.
But in fact, I guess it is just another gimmick for freaks like me. ;)
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