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Bob Russell · 02-20-2014, 12:09 PM

I've got a long list with hundreds of URLs of web pages I want to read. Mostly business blog and magazine articles online. Instapaper is excellent for this sort of thing, but without a paid subscription I ran into a cap on the number of articles I can save in a day. That led to the list of URLs so I wouldn't lose track of the articles I had found.

Now I want to review/read through that list as easily as possible.

I've considered the following alternatives, which sound too painful...
1) Create an HTML index page and click on the articles one at a time in a browser.
2) Cut/paste URLs from the list into a broser
3) Web scraper - but would seem to be just like #1 above, except offline
4) Web scrape and then convert into an ebook - sounds like a lot of work and more importantly, I would expect to have issues with scaling which make the ultimate result hard to read
5) Pay for Instagram subscription to remove the article limit - This might be a good idea for the future, but won't help me today.

Note: I don't care if I have to read this on a desktop computer, or if I use an iPad or Smartphone or whatever. But easy reading and tracking my progress is important to me.

Any suggestions?

02-20-2014, 12:09 PM	#1
Bob Russell Recovering Gadget Addict Posts: 5,381 Karma: 676161 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Device: iPad	How to read through a long list of web article URLs? I've got a long list with hundreds of URLs of web pages I want to read. Mostly business blog and magazine articles online. Instapaper is excellent for this sort of thing, but without a paid subscription I ran into a cap on the number of articles I can save in a day. That led to the list of URLs so I wouldn't lose track of the articles I had found. Now I want to review/read through that list as easily as possible. I've considered the following alternatives, which sound too painful... 1) Create an HTML index page and click on the articles one at a time in a browser. 2) Cut/paste URLs from the list into a broser 3) Web scraper - but would seem to be just like #1 above, except offline 4) Web scrape and then convert into an ebook - sounds like a lot of work and more importantly, I would expect to have issues with scaling which make the ultimate result hard to read 5) Pay for Instagram subscription to remove the article limit - This might be a good idea for the future, but won't help me today. Note: I don't care if I have to read this on a desktop computer, or if I use an iPad or Smartphone or whatever. But easy reading and tracking my progress is important to me. Any suggestions?