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Harmon · 11-15-2009, 07:24 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 minutes ago, on Twitter, Marco announced that Instapaper will now generate an epub file you can download & move to your Sony.

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 an epub file using a single click. The file can be opened by Sony Library or calibre and moved to your Sony Reader, and you can read them on that as well!

And what's more, each separate article shows up in the table of contents for the Instapaper "book" on the Reader.

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 in on your Sony to carry around & read.

[BTW it also produces mobi files for the poor benighted Kindle user. And, of course, both files will work with Stanza on the iPhone or your computer.]

11-15-2009, 07:24 PM	#1
Harmon King of the Bongo Drums Posts: 1,622 Karma: 5927225 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Excelsior! (Strange...)	Instapaper now produces epub files 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 minutes ago, on Twitter, Marco announced that Instapaper will now generate an epub file you can download & move to your Sony. 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 an epub file using a single click. The file can be opened by Sony Library or calibre and moved to your Sony Reader, and you can read them on that as well! And what's more, each separate article shows up in the table of contents for the Instapaper "book" on the Reader. 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 in on your Sony to carry around & read. [BTW it also produces mobi files for the poor benighted Kindle user. And, of course, both files will work with Stanza on the iPhone or your computer.] Last edited by Harmon; 11-15-2009 at 07:29 PM.