So if you read halfway through Monday’s articles, then all of them will appear in Tuesday’s download too. You can only mark articles as read by visiting a link. Instapaper’s Kindle integration sends down every unread article every day. It’s enough to make me sad that I only have to use the site once every few weeks! ↩︎ The initial load is under half a second… from Senegal. The first time I used it I thought “man, this thing really just works!” And then, “man, I don’t remember the last time I said that about software with a graphical user interface!” It took me a while to figure out why, but then I realized that the site is absurdly technically minimalist: a ~2002-era multi-page webapp with no images and no Javascript. I also found myself really appreciating the Kindle4RSS app.
Instapaper sounds like they have a feature like this, but it works terribly. Hilariously, it’s so much faster and less complicated than almost every “modern web app” that it might be the best web-based RSS reader as well.
You can also read RSS feeds directly on the Kindle4RSS site. There’s a sweet feature where it can extract the full text of summary-only feeds so that you don’t have to read them in the crappy Kindle browser. It’s well worth the “$2.9” per month for me. You need the premium version to send articles daily (vs manually) or to have over 25 feeds. It makes me a lot less likely to bounce off a doorstopper from, say, samzdat. On Feedly it’s easy for me to tab away and get distracted on a Kindle, everything has my full attention. Most interestingly, I’ve also been appreciating the reading more. So far, it’s been really awesome-simple and completely non-addictive.
Kindle4RSS bundles up each day’s articles into a single Kindle “magazine issue” and sends it to me once a day at a predictable time. To escape, I decided to experiment with reading RSS feeds on my Kindle via Kindle4RSS. I was still under the thumb of the little red badge!
But recently I noticed that my RSS feed was starting to get the same distracting pull as Hacker News. I really enjoy using RSS to get updates from my favorite writers.
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