If you aren’t an Instapaper Subscriber, you will see a note indicating that you can expand the upper limit of the compilations being sent by subscribing. That way I have all the day’s news waiting for me when I get home from work. I often set this up to send me my most recent 50 articles each night at 5PM. This also includes options for choosing how many articles to send and how many new articles are needed to prompt delivery.Ĭheck the Send my Unread articles to my Kindle automatically option.Īdjust the options in this panel to your tastes. You can also schedule automatic delivery of your article compilations at a given time each day. If you want to send your current article compilation immediately you can do this by visiting the Account Settings page and click the Send Now button. If you don’t have a 3G capable Kindle it won’t matter but if you do then decide if you want mobile delivery or prefer cost free delivery. Be sure you read the discussion about whether to use or as your suffix. Paste the address prefix into the text box. Return to the Instapaper settings page and look at the My Kindle’s email address area. Copy this value to your clipboard you’ll need it in a minute. The steps are clearly laid out in the upper section of the control panel.Ĭlick the given link to your Kindle Personal Documents Settings page.Ĭlick Add a new approved e-mail address then enter the given in green on your settings page.Īt the top of this Amazon page, locate the assigned email address for your Kindle. Once logged in you will need to click on the Account link in the upper right.įirst, you need to setup your Amazon Kindle account to recognize Instapaper as an approved source. To enable reading on the Kindle you you need to login to your Instapaper account at. ![]() While not necessarily intended for use for automated delivery, Marco has bent this system to his will and made it work for seamless automated delivery. This basically allows you to email documents to your Kindle. My preferred method for delivery makes use of the Kindle Personal Documents service. This will generate and download a file with a name like Instapaper-AxUt5R.mobi.Ĭonnect your Kindle to your computer with the USB connector, then drag the file to the Documents directory of the Kindle drive that appears. In the bottom right corner there is a link to download for Kindle. To generate a Kindle formatted file, simply login to Instapaper then navigate to the folder you want to export. If wireless internet isn’t available you can still load up your Kindle.This is particularly useful when doing extended travel. It permits the export of more articles than the automatic delivery mechanism in some circumstances.It allows you to export folders of articles other than Unread.I rarely use this option, but it allows use in a few cases where automatic delivery wouldn’t work. You can manually download your Read Later queue onto your Kindle. I even find it better than the iPad app, which will good in its own right but provides far too much opportunity for distraction. ![]() Within that context reading my Instapaper queue on my Kindle is the most comfortable experience I’ve found. But most importantly it can only be used for reading which enforces a mental focus that I find very relaxing. The insane battery life and tiny size means that you can always have it with you. While it isn’t without flaws, the experience of reading long-form content on the Kindle is the best of any device I’ve tried. The Kindle is a device with a singular focus, reading. Instapaper can deliver your Read Later queue to your Kindle for perfect offline reading.īefore diving into the details I want to try and explain why this feature is so incredibly useful and has changed so fundamentally how I read content from the web. If you use Instapaper for your asynchronous reading of web articles (and you should), you may be using it while totally unaware of one of the best features of the service. This walkthrough, however, will work in much the same way on older generation Kindles. It provides dramatic improvements over the previous generations and while not perfect I think it is the best e-ink reader available today. The Paperwhite is the latest in Amazon’s long line of e-ink reading tablets. This walkthrough will focus on using Instapaper with a Kindle Paperwhite. ![]() This is an updated version of an article I wrote nearly a year ago about how you can revolutionize the way to read web content by pairing Instapaper with your e-ink Kindle.
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