How to read through a long list of web article URLs?

[Bob Russell]

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?

[davidfor]

Have you looked at Pocket? You save to Pocket from the browser. Then you can read the articles from browser or apps on the tablet. Or get a Kobo ereader and read them there.

[Bob Russell]

Thanks davidfor. I believe Pocket is just like Instapaper.

But yes - it would be perfect if there was a way to add URLs in a single batch to either Paper or Instapaper, e.g. with a web form or sending an email to a custom address.

[davidfor]

OK. I took the problem being more tracking what you hadn't read yet, not being able to add a lot of pages quickly. Pocket do say they only allow one link per email. It seems a weird limitation. Reading a link per line should be easy. The Pocket FAQ for emailing links has the following:

Problem: I sent multiple links, but only one was added

At the moment, it is only possible to process one link per email we receive. If you send multiple links, only the first will be processed.

So, maybe it will change in the future.

Also, I have done number 1 from your list in the past. I kept the file open in the editor and added or removed the links. Saved it and refreshed the page.

I also was thinking I saw a Firefox addon that did something like this. I can't find it now, but found https://www.wallabag.org/ as an alternative to Pocket and Instapaper. I can't quickly see that there is a way to add multiple links, but you can suggest it to the developers.