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Harmon · 11-15-2009, 11:53 PM

Instapaper http://blog.instapaper.com/tagged/press is a terrific web/iphone app which converts web pages into text files, stripping out the eyegarbage and rendering a nice, easy to read text experience, particularly on the iphone but on your web browser as well. Kind of a Readability + Read It Later application.

Well, just a couple of hours ago, on Twitter, Marco announced that Instapaper will now generate an mobi file you can download & move to your Kindle.

Here's how it all works:

You surf around the net, finding articles you want to read. You click on a browser bar button you've installed (easy - drag from Instapaper web site to the browser bar) and the articles are uploaded to the Instapaper web site, where you have an account (also easy to establish.) The articles are stored there, so you can read them as you wish on your computer or iphone.

But now, you can go to the web site and download the last 20 articles you uploaded as a mobi file using a single click. The file can be opened by calibre and moved to your Kindle, and you can read them on that as well!

To top it off, Instapaper is free for your web browser (5 Bucks (cheap) for the iPhone app.) Marco doesn't even have a tip jar, more's the pity, because this is a great setup & well worth a donation.

So basically, you can put together your own private magazine from your web browser, and have it on your Kindle to carry around & read.

NOTE: I don't have a Kindle anymore. I prefer the Sony Reader, particularly the 300 which is much smaller than the K2. But I've tested these files on Stanza Desktop, which reads mobi files, and I use Instapaper's epub file generator which works just fine with my Sony, so I'm sure you'll find that the mobi version works, too. My guess is that you can just drag the mobi file to the K2 when you have it connected to your computer.

11-15-2009, 11:53 PM	#1
Harmon King of the Bongo Drums Posts: 1,630 Karma: 5927225 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Excelsior! (Strange...)	Instapaper for the Kindle Instapaper http://blog.instapaper.com/tagged/press is a terrific web/iphone app which converts web pages into text files, stripping out the eyegarbage and rendering a nice, easy to read text experience, particularly on the iphone but on your web browser as well. Kind of a Readability + Read It Later application. Well, just a couple of hours ago, on Twitter, Marco announced that Instapaper will now generate an mobi file you can download & move to your Kindle. Here's how it all works: You surf around the net, finding articles you want to read. You click on a browser bar button you've installed (easy - drag from Instapaper web site to the browser bar) and the articles are uploaded to the Instapaper web site, where you have an account (also easy to establish.) The articles are stored there, so you can read them as you wish on your computer or iphone. But now, you can go to the web site and download the last 20 articles you uploaded as a mobi file using a single click. The file can be opened by calibre and moved to your Kindle, and you can read them on that as well! To top it off, Instapaper is free for your web browser (5 Bucks (cheap) for the iPhone app.) Marco doesn't even have a tip jar, more's the pity, because this is a great setup & well worth a donation. So basically, you can put together your own private magazine from your web browser, and have it on your Kindle to carry around & read. NOTE: I don't have a Kindle anymore. I prefer the Sony Reader, particularly the 300 which is much smaller than the K2. But I've tested these files on Stanza Desktop, which reads mobi files, and I use Instapaper's epub file generator which works just fine with my Sony, so I'm sure you'll find that the mobi version works, too. My guess is that you can just drag the mobi file to the K2 when you have it connected to your computer.