Rian van der Merwe:
My loyalty comes from the fact that I’m unable to separate Instapaper from its creator, Marco Arment.
And it works really well.
Instapaper
The problem with Readability
Ben Brooks:
I like what Readability has tried to do with the service, and the apps are gorgeous, but I have a big problem with the approaches being taken by them. For one I can’t figure out if they want to be a great place to save articles for reading later, or do they want to be a middleman that helps make money for independent publishers and large publishers alike, or… I don’t know. The motives matter to me and I can’t figure out Readability’s.
I’m a long time user of Instapaper. I pay Marco for the service and have no plans to stop.
Instapaper improvements
So the bookmarklet now sports a completely new design that’s highly visible at every screen size, and works in more browsers, too.
The new version also supports multi-page articles. I didn’t even have to do anything, it just updated. I use Instapaper every single day and love it.
∞ Ben Brooks reviews Instapaper 4.0
In my book Instapaper is certainly a “ridiculously good deal” and that may sum up Instapaper 4 perfectly. I’m a proud paying member of Instapaper and I’m really impressed with what Marco did with version 4.0.
∞ Instapaper server seized in FBI raid
Possibly most importantly, though, the FBI is now presumably in possession of a complete copy of the Instapaper database as it stood on Tuesday morning, including the complete list of users and any non-deleted bookmarks. (“Archived” bookmarks are not deleted. … Continued