Another Site I Like – Instapaper

I’m slowly getting into a rhythm at work so I should be posting more regulary. Long boring story- I don’t blog from work, but I do update some draft notes occasionally and then review them from home and then publish a post. (It’s obvious I barely edit the drafts or correct them)

One of my older notes was to post about my Kindle. That post is long overdue but on it’s way.

But before I write about that I wanted to write about two applications I use in conjunction with the Kindle. One of them is Calibre (I’ll have a post about that later too) and the other is Instapaper.

You don’t actually need a Kindle to use Instapaper so keep reading because you may wind up using it.

Instapaper is basically a free website that will store webpages or articles for you and you can read them later.

In a nutshell you sign up for a free account and then drag a little bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar. So basically you’ll have a “Read Later” button in your browser.

So if I’m reading something on SFGate.com or Slate but I need to run off to a meeting, or if someone walks over and interrupts me, I can click “read later”.  And indeed later I can log in to instapaper.com and read the article or even better- use the iPhone app to read my articles on my bus ride home if I didn’t ride my bike. Instapaper also works with the iPad and obviously my Kindle (although with the Kindle or Sony Readers there’s a bit of tweaking or emailing you have to do).

So even if you don’t have an e-reader, definitely check out the site and the associated apps.