![]() Instapaper article list on iPhone, using dark theme. (This is a running theme/quirk with all three services). Now you can either archive all the unread list, or delete all the archive – but can’t just select 10 articles to archive, at once – you have to do them one at a time. There used to be an option to archive all older than say 30 days, but this option appears to have disappeared with a recent redesign (or isn’t in a very obvious place). If you read on a mobile and then archive, it remains accessible on the device. You can archive stuff from the mobile app, or from the Kindle version it sends, which is nice. But it doesn’t carry this feature over onto the iOS or Kindle version, which is a shame. ![]() On the web version, Instapaper tells you how long it will take to read an article before you open it. When it converts to the Kindle format, Instapaper names the documents in the style of “Instapaper: Thursday, Oct 17” for example, which is at a glance slightly easier to find than the format Readability uses. Amazon adds the date too, so Instapaper shows up as: Sadly, this datestamp information only appears on the web version – not via the mobile apps or on the Kindle digest. The service is the only of the three that datestamps the articles you save, so you can see before you read things that you saved that article “yesterday”, which I find very useful. The other two services don’t, so I don’t know why this is. The periodical digest on the Kindle (when it does eventually arrive) is a good format, and easy to read, but does have occasional formatting errors (like repeating sections – nothing that stops you reading the text, as such). When you go into the “set automatic delivery” screen, it has a bit that tells you when the last digest was sent, but it *always* says “your last compilation was sent just now”, when it clearly wasn’t. In the worst case, nearly 18 hours after it was meant to have sent it. Over maybe 20 days, I’d estimate that on 4-5 occasions, it delivered it the day after. With it remaining being set to deliver at 14:00 daily, the last 10 times it delivered the digest, were:Ġ7:22 (very early, but on the right day),Ġ3:22 (that’s 3am the day after it was meant to deliver it), I would set it to deliver at 14:00, and it would deliver it about 18:00, pretty consistently. To start with, it would seem quite regular, albeit at the wrong time. My goal was to save things to Instapaper during the day and read it when I’m home from work, so have it ready to read between 3 and 5pm. It saves reasonably well, and automatically delivers to Kindle, but sadly – at whatever the hell time it feels like. Crofflr doesn’t work with Instapaper, sadly.)Īll three systems have some ability to import from each other (if you want to try them all out, as I did), but that isn’t as simple as you’d hope. They are all as easy as each other for saving articles to read later. So what are they like for everything else? 1. (And if you prefer Crofflr’s service, you can also use it with Readability instead of Readability’s built-in delivery option, if you want to. ![]() Pocket doesn’t have this functionality natively, but can do it through a third-party service called Crofflr, which has a one-time setup fee of $5. Readability and Instapaper both have the option to email a daily digest of articles to your Kindle. The three read-later services I’ve tried are Pocket, Readability, and Instapaper. So a nice daily personalised newspaper delivered early afternoon would be perfect. I start work early, can’t really use my phone while I’m at work, but then finish early. I’ve been a user of Instapaper for ages, but a few things made me start looking elsewhere, coupled with just wanting to try out some rivals.Ī few months ago I bought a Kindle, and one of the things I thought might be nice, is that I could save articles during the day (mostly from what people are discussing on Twitter) and then get the service to send it directly to my Kindle – basically providing me with a daily digest of stuff I didn’t have time to read fully when I saw it to start with. For the last month or so, I’ve been trying out some read-later type services. ![]()
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