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Like Instapaper, Readability doesn't have an android app, so any other advantage it may have is meaningless for me.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.codecarpet.reading... https://market.android.com/details?id=com.homelinux.hilo.eve....
there's only one readability client, which is not that good....
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.fahimk.readability....
I left Instapaper for Readability as well, but my reason was entirely different and a first for me (at least on the web): Marco. I'm not even sure what it is about him exactly, but after listening to some of his Build and Analyze podcasts and reading his slanted blog posts I just found myself not wanting to use or support Instapaper anymore.
I left Instapaper for Readability as well, but my reason was entirely different and a first for me (at least on the web): Marco. I'm not even sure what it is about him exactly, but after listening to some of his Build and Analyze podcasts and reading his slanted blog posts I just found myself not wanting to use or support Instapaper anymore.
I can certainly imagine that making you want to stop listening to his podcast and stop reading his blog, but it is surprising that it would be the reason you switched to a competing software product. Are Instapaper and Readability otherwise so similar that the merits of the apps themselves didn't tip the balance?
Like Instapaper, Readability doesn't have an android app, so any other advantage it may have is meaningless for me.
(1) Readability app for iOS and Android 'coming soon' | The Verge http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/14/2797042/readability-app-io...
I think Readability's model is a little presumptuous. Why do they get to decide unilaterally that they deserve 30% of the revenue? It's not like the App Store where you agreed to it. Given all the work that goes into creating an article, is extracting the text worth 30%? If I was a publisher, I wouldn't think so. To me, Instapaper's approach is much more straightforward. You have to have gone to the publisher's site…
Not entirely correct, there's an integrated API which lets third-party applications add articles to Instapaper. Many applications (Reeder for instance, or quite a few Twitter clients) have this feature.
I left because I felt readability has a lot more features I like. The ability to hit ` on any webpage is awesome. I am also a click away from saving the article. The latest iteration of Instapaper looks nicer in some ways, (looks like Reeder was an inspiration), but is painfully annoying in others. i.e I now have to touch twice to delete an article. Instapaper needs a stripped down Lite version that all it does is sh…
What does that do?
> I am also a click away from saving the article.
So're you in Instapaper? Depending on the browser you're using anyway, I guess. There's an official bookmarklet (1-click in browsers which still have bookmarks bars) and there is probably a chrome/button extension for your browser (I see a dozen or two on the Chrome extensions site)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know that lots of services let you add to Instapaper, but with Instapaper itself it's impossible to add articles without visiting them. I think I recall Marco talking about the fact that this is on purpose for the previously stated concerns. Also, Instapaper doesn't let you stitch articles broken up into multiple pages.
Actually multi-page stitching just got added to the browser bookmarklet, relevant blog post: http://blog.instapaper.com/post/18556429689
Like Instapaper, Readability doesn't have an android app, so any other advantage it may have is meaningless for me.
Instapaper has several (not offical, but good non the less) android clients: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.codecarpet.reading... https://market.android.com/details?id=com.homelinux.hilo.eve... . there's only one readability client, which is not that good.... https://market.android.com/details?id=com.fahimk.readability... .
Even the Lite Version has everything I need: Saving links and from time to time even read them on my phone (now that I've got a Kindle that's not so often anymore)
I left Instapaper for Readability as well, but my reason was entirely different and a first for me (at least on the web): Marco. I'm not even sure what it is about him exactly, but after listening to some of his Build and Analyze podcasts and reading his slanted blog posts I just found myself not wanting to use or support Instapaper anymore.
I'm still listening to Build & Analyze but I'm one or two more nonsensical episodes away from removing it from iTunes. The earlier episodes were a lot better in my opinion. Conversation was focused much more on actual development and the way they talked about it was interesting to me. Now they talk about topics that they think are interesting to developers but I guess I'm no longer their target demographic. Like you…
And I wouldn't even mind technical topics about coffee or thermostats (ok maybe I would mind about that). What kills me is the half-baked life coach bullshit that 1/3rd of Build and Analyze is turning in to. I don't need another person telling me how I should value my time. I read those posts from Joel on Software in 2004 just like Marco did.