Thord D. Hedengren

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Tag: Instapaper

  • You don’t have to read everything

    You don’t have to read everything

    I’m not the only one with an overflowing Instapaper (or Pocket, or whatever) queue. A lot of people save more articles than they have time to read, and even if they don’t, they want to read more articles than they do. It’s not that hard to understand why, because there’s a lot of content published every day, on so many sites, or even in print, and the notion of being able to read everything you think you want to read is ridiculous. You can’t.

    Let me say that again: You can’t read everything you think you want to read.

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  • Instapaper goes free with new premium subscriptions

    Details of Instapaper Premium here. Current subscribers won’t have to pay the $3/$30 though, we’ll stay at $1/month. Instapaper is my read later service of choice.

  • What I use the iPad for

    I’ve had the iPad since the US wifi launch. I bought the 3G version when it came out, and I upgraded to the iPad 2 with 3G at launch. When Apple releases iPad 3 I’ll get that too. In the short lifespan of the iPad it has gone from web browser to reading device to an actual tool.

    Or to put it more plainly, the iPad is by far the most used device, for both work and pleasure.

    So what do I really use it for, and how well is it working out compared to the almost always more fully fledged Mac alternatives? (more…)

  • Readability is Instapaper with a bit of Flattr to it

    The Readability experiment on the Arc90 blog got some exposure and is overall a pretty cool bookmarklet that lets you strip away all the nasty stuff (that’ll be ads and poor design) from websites. It’s built into Safari and is actually something of a live version of Instapaper.

    And now it’s available for $5/month (or more, if you want to), on its own site and all.

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