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I do the same thing, usually with multi-page articles, since Readability will stitch pages into one long one before I save to Instapaper.
Instapaper automagically stitches paginated articles together.
No, it doesn't.
The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
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Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
#22Offline reading and (more importantly) multiplatform support is going to keep me with Instapaper. The fact that I can get Instapaper articles to my Kindle is something that I know Apple is never going to offer. Ever. Now, if Apple offered an eInk Ereader that synced with Reading List (and offline support for Reading List) for less than $100 then maybe I'd jump ship.
In all honesty there would need to be a VERY compelling feature set at a low (free) price for Instapaper to lose me. I've already bought the iOS apps and incorporated the service into my flow.
Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
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#24The reason I don't develop my ViewText any further is that the barrier to entry for this is just to low. Marco already has an excellent app, now reability will enter his market, along with Apple. Here's an example: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marco.org%2...
ViewText is really good. If you have stopped development, why not dump the code to GitHub? Open source community could use a good text extractor as most of the current ones are pretty bad on server side and Readability's old code requires browser components to work well.
Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
#25The reason I don't develop my ViewText any further is that the barrier to entry for this is just to low. Marco already has an excellent app, now reability will enter his market, along with Apple. Here's an example: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marco.org%2...
ViewText is really good. If you have stopped development, why not dump the code to GitHub? Open source community could use a good text extractor as most of the current ones are pretty bad on server side and Readability's old code requires browser components to work well.
+1 for open sourcing it (from another ViewText user who also happened to need good open source text extractor).
BTW, what programming language you used for ViewText?
Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
#26Last time i use Readability it was too slow and stop using it. Original idea one was instant. So i use Readable most of the time. And sometimes i combine (Instapaper Text + Safari Read list). Speed is important, other features are secondary.
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ViewText is really good. If you have stopped development, why not dump the code to GitHub? Open source community could use a good text extractor as most of the current ones are pretty bad on server side and Readability's old code requires browser components to work well.
+1 for open sourcing it (from another ViewText user who also happened to need good open source text extractor). BTW, what programming language you used for ViewText?
C#
Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
#28tl;dr: "Competition is good; It motivates me to keep my offering better"
There are in numerous Basecamp clones out there, yet a handful of them manage to do a percent of the revenues Basecamp does.
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The "Reader" button appears to be a fork of Readability ( http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/06/08/think-safari-re... ) Also of note, the original Readability was actually "partly inspired by" instapaper ( http://lab.arc90.com/2009/03/02/readability/ )
So I looked into all of these some time ago for an app that I use myself. The Safari fork of Readability is the best client implementation, while the best server-side implementation (by a mile) is Diffbot. Out of the 50 sources I had (regular RSS updates, etc.) InstaPaper failed on far too many, either stripping important content or pictures and captions. Readability was only a bit better I glued together an app that…
Readability's code is a little bit old (2009), but seems no other better (opensource) alternatives...
And thanks for suggesting Diffbot, will try later.
Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
#30The reason I don't develop my ViewText any further is that the barrier to entry for this is just to low. Marco already has an excellent app, now reability will enter his market, along with Apple. Here's an example: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marco.org%2...
Slightly off-topic: Thanks for ViewText. Seriously. The barrier to entry may be low, but you are the one who developed it. It works flawlessly, it's fast, it's a delight to use on a mobile device and on the iPad, it doesn't attempt to distract me with ads or premium offers and it's free.
If you don't me asking, how much does it cost to run ViewText?