Thursday, February 25, 2010
That Instapaper is such an attractive development for the Kindle feels a bit backwards. The Kindle sends you books over the air, but I don’t really want that, I’d continue to get most of my books from the library. I don’t have this problem of ‘wow – I wish I had an ENTIRE book to read IMMEDIATELY.’ I have plenty to read, there’s just no good way to read it. They aren’t all books. Instapaper: The Kindle Killer App
Thursday, February 11, 2010 Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Support for sites that require logins

Instapaper now supports these sites that require logins for premium, single-page, or all content:

  • Ars Technica
  • Autosport.com
  • Baseball Prospectus
  • Chronicle.com
  • Economist
  • ESPN Insider
  • Financial Times
  • Harper’s
  • Liberation.fr
  • LRB
  • LWN
  • New York Review of Books
  • Newsday
  • WSJ

It works by sending a copy of the page as you’re viewing it to Instapaper’s text engine when you click the Read Later bookmarklet. (This requires the newest bookmarklet, which came out last August.) This means:

  • It’s nearly immune to character-encoding or HTML-parsing bugs on these sites.
  • It can support almost any site that requires logins or subscription accounts, although I need to add it to the list first. But:
  • It will not automatically choose the Print/single-page view. You need to view the single-page version, then click Read Later.

Support the publishers you love. I got a Harper’s subscription to use with this feature, and I’m eyeing The Economist as well. If you’re a geek like me, you should also consider getting an Ars Technica Premier subscription, which offers now-Instapaper-compatible single-page versions of all of their multi-page stories. (Definitely subscribe to Ars Premier before John Siracusa reviews the next version of OS X.)

Soon, I’ll let you add your own sites to this list for your account. But while this feature is still young, I’m going to add them manually.

Which subscription-requiring sites should I add? Answer here or email me. When requesting a site, please tell me if the subscriber content is served from a different domain, or a subdomain, from the main site. Thanks.

Friday, February 5, 2010 Thursday, February 4, 2010

Native Instapaper support in FeedDemon

Nick Bradbury of FeedDemon emailed me to show me the new send-to-Instapaper support in FeedDemon’s update from this week. Nick says:

To use it, first click the “gear” icon to enable the “Send To” menu:

Once that’s done, simply click the “Send To” icon beneath an article, then select Instapaper from the menu:

This replaces the method from my earlier post with a native, built-in feature.

Thanks, Nick!

Friday, January 22, 2010
I’m honored.

I’m honored.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Indie+Relief tally

Yesterday, through participation in Indie+Relief (whether they realized it or not), Instapaper Pro’s new customers donated over $1500 to Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

Thanks, everyone!