Even if you only find shorter reads that you can’t get to until after work, Instapaper is a hugely effective tool for saving later and reading with ease. Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, subtly hints at the long form angle throughout the Instapaper website, although it is most powerfully reflected in a curated portion of Instapaper, which we’ll get to in a bit. If you’re looking for productivity reasons on why to use Instapaper, consider the points in this article. Guess what? Pinboard integrates with Instapaper - but we’ll discuss this later. If you’re looking for a tool to save bookmarks of websites for later perusal, you’ll want something like Pinboard. Note that Instapaper is for reading specific articles. Instapaper is, in fact, ideally suited to longer reads on the web, and that’s by design. No, not cute cat videos, more like cute Gore Vidal pieces in Esquire.
If you work on the web during the day (even for a few hours) you’ll inevitably run into items you’d like to read, but can’t get to at that moment. It will also make mobile-friendly views of articles on your mobile devices, removing distractions like ads and speeding up page load times tremendously. Instapaper is designed to be a tool for saving long reads for later, when you have time to read them. So what is Instapaper? You could just ask easily ask what it isn’t, because it’s hard to explain to some people.
Later this week I’ll directly compare Instapaper to its rivals, Pocket and Readability.
Back then, I’d scour the web looking for stories to write up, and save them to Instapaper instead of Delicious because I didn’t need to keep them forever, just until I wrote up whatever piqued my interest at that moment. Turns out I started using Instapaper back in 2008, when the service was quite young and you didn’t have nearly the options you do today. It’s easy to take simple, powerful tools for granted.
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