Trouble with Instapaper and Newsweek

[vermontcathy]

I've been using Instapaper recently to save articles to read later on my kindle (if you haven't tried it, it's pretty cool). It works well, except Newsweek articles are only coming up as brief summaries, even though I see the whole article when I click on the link on my Instapaper page. Any ideas? Here's one that's not working, whether I click the "read later" button while viewing the regular page or the print-friendly page:

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/26/read-on.html

[billmilo]

Newsweek doesn't allow it.

You can do the long way of copy/paste document, convert to PDF, then convert to mobi using calibre.

[Bic]

Those of you who use Google's Chrome browser on your computer, can now send page content (from a web page or selections from a page without photos or ads) to your Kindle for reading later with this app. (Sort of like Instapaper).

http://goo.gl/sSELW

[vermontcathy]

I heard of the google chrome plug in. But that just makes one document on your kindle, per article you send, right? I love how instapaper can take many articles and combine them into one document, in periodical format.

At first I thought Newsweek was somehow blocking it and sending a summary, but it's not a summary - it's just the third or so paragraph. It seems like there must be a bug in instapaper's code that chokes on something in Newsweek's html. I can see the text of the article on the screen, but instapaper can't grab it for some reason.

[TheKindleWorm]

You could also try kindlefeeder.com - this is what I use. The free version can combine up to 12 feeds which are all combined into 1 document which you can email to your Kindle. Only downside for me is you don't get images but then you don't get these with Google Chrome's Send to Kindle either.

Then there is also Calibre but I haven't tested this out in earnest for a while.

[vermontcathy]

Originally Posted by TheKindleWorm

You could also try kindlefeeder.com - this is what I use. The free version can combine up to 12 feeds which are all combined into 1 document which you can email to your Kindle. Only downside for me is you don't get images but then you don't get these with Google Chrome's Send to Kindle either.

Then there is also Calibre but I haven't tested this out in earnest for a while.

Thanks for the tip. But (and I'm not complaining, just providing info for other users), kindlefeeder combines the web pages and feeds into one book. It doesn't format it as a periodical, as instapaper does. Also, if I'm not subscribed to a feed, it doesn't send the web pages, either. So I'm forced to pick a feed.

[vermontcathy]

Very interesting - for the sake of science, I saved some of the troublesome articles from my web browser as html complete. I then uploaded the files to my own web space. It all works/displays fine in the browser. But still, when I add these pages from my own webspace to instapaper, it still only gives one random paragraph.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by Bic

Those of you who use Google's Chrome browser on your computer, can now send page content (from a web page or selections from a page without photos or ads) to your Kindle for reading later with this app. (Sort of like Instapaper).

http://goo.gl/sSELW

There's also a Chrome extension called 'Later On Kindle', which is a little simpler and cleans up the formatting a little better (STK currently has a problem with HTML <table> <td> etc.), and will send PDFs with an option to 'convert'. But it doesn't include a link to the original web page as Send To Kindle does. I reported the table issue to the STK guy so that'll probably get fixed soon. And I left my suggestion about the URL on the LOK site.