How Technology Is Renewing Attention to Long-form Journalism
When we’re constantly inundated with information via e-mail, text messages, push alerts, tweets and Facebook updates, it’s hard to make time for that 5,000-word New Yorker essay we bookmarked or the serial narrative we keep telling ourselves we’ll read but never do.
Barron's: Seven Great Apps
By Jay Palmer:
Instapaper: You can save a few trees, and a lot of time at the printer, by firing up this app. It lets you save Web pages (news or otherwise) on your device for later offline reading.
Thanks, Jay.
MediaPost: The 100 Most Important Online Publishers
#24 Instapaper
In the spirit of Time magazine’s infamous “You” person of the year cover, we are going to go out on a limb here and say, that for many of you, the best editor is probably you. Instapaper is really just a technology that allows you to save anything you want to read online in one place until you have the time to read it. And it lets you read it anywhere, even offline later on your mobile device.
Thanks, OMMA Editors.
Instapaper. Reinventing long-form reading…
Great article By Milind Alvares at Smoking Apples.
When I was reading the exact same article he was in the third photo, I passed “aluminosilicate” and thought, “I wonder if my dictionary has that.” And then I immediately dismissed the thought without trying it, thinking, “Nah, that’s far too specialized. There’s no chance it’ll have that.”
Macworld: The eight best iPad apps so far
Names Instapaper as the second one. Thanks!
10 Apps We’re Excited to Try on iPad Launch Day
By Brian Chen for Wired Gadget Lab.
148Apps reviews Instapaper Pro 2.2
Are you literate? Do you read long things online? If so, Instapaper Pro is a must-have.
By Bonnie Eisenman. Thanks, Bonnie.
Instapaper Update Adds Pagination, Dictionary and Browser
Instapaper Pro, one of Gadget Lab’s favorite iPhone apps, has been updated to version 2.2. Despite that incremental number, there is a slew of new features which make the application more like v3.0.
By Charlie Sorrel for Wired’s Gadget Lab.
Instapaper, iPhone app for reading, gets update
By Mitch Wagner for Computerworld.
Save Web pages to read later with Instapaper app for iPhone
There are myriad RSS readers for the iPhone, but there’s one app we use for storing and reading text on the Web that we’ve kept using even as others have come and gone.
Instapaper review by the New York Daily News.