Ask HN: Recommended "read-later" service?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3405341

by hnthrowaway321 • 15 years ago

5 9 15 years ago

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Like Readability, Instapaper, etc. Please mention your experiences (pros/cons) or link to previous discussion on HN.

hng• 15 years ago

Instapaper "just works" for me, kindle support is awesome.

Readibility has the nicer "readibility" function ;)

rman666• 15 years ago

Evernote's Clearly is quite nice, too.

amwelles• 15 years ago

I've used Instapaper for several years, and I've always found that it works really well. I have a Kobo eReader, and I use the ePub function to read them at my leisure. I've never tried any of the others, simply because I've never felt they had anything more to offer.

jemeshsu• 15 years ago

I just use Safari's Reading List.

hnthrowaway321• 15 years ago

Thanks to all the people who replied / will reply. Will check out the options mentioned.

aiurtourist• 15 years ago

Instapaper is fantastic.

• The "Read Later" bookmarklet is handy and even works inside Google Reader. (You're using http://fulltextrssfeed.com/ for your feeds, right?)

• The Instapaper iOS client is amazong on iPad. Reading is nice and, if you share via email or EverNote, it queues up email if you're offline.

• ReadNow is a $5 client for Mac which looks as nice as the iOS client and has the same feature set and lots of keyboard shortcuts. The only cons are that images aren't saved for offline reading and sending links sometimes fails silently.

• EverPaper (~$5 or so) is a decent client for Android.

bmelton• 15 years ago

Instapaper[1] is fantastic, and I love it, and it is likely to be the popular recommendation.

That said, I also like the "Send to Kindle" chrome plugin for reading things on my Kindle.

[1] http://www.instapaper.com/ [2] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipkfnchcgalnafehpg...

maguay• 15 years ago

If you have an iPad, the latest Instapaper app is just about the best read later experience I could think of. The only thing about Instapaper I don't 100% like is that it can't consolidate multi-page articles automatically. So, for long-form articles that don't have a print or single-page view, I keep the Readability "Read Now" bookmarklet. It combines everything to one page, and then when I hit the Instapaper Read Later bookmarklet, the consolidated view is saved to my Instapaper library. Voila!

a_a_r_o_n• 15 years ago

I sometimes like "no app."

Email the link to yourself. Works best with an IMAP mail provider, but works regardless.

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