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Comment by mlinsey | Hacker News Reader

Thanks to Safari's reading list, I'll likely stop using the Instapaper bookmarklet on my iPad. But the most common use case I have for Intapaper is when I see an article on my laptop in Chrome and want to read it later on my Kindle 3. So I expect I'll be using Instapaper for a while longer.

This is a generalizable pattern for survival for all the other apps Apple "killed" today - you can still compete for any users that don't live 100% in the Apple ecosystem.

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This is a bit off-topic, but I have the exact same most common use case, and I just switched in the last few days to using the Readability add-on to Chrome, which has a "send to Kindle" button. I was previously using Wordcycler to sync my Kindle with Instapaper by plugging it into my laptop, but this allows me to skip that step. Now I can just hit the sync button on the Kindle directly and it downloads the saved articles.

Readability seems to render articles slightly better, too, and more often keeps the byline, which was the most annoying part about Instapaper for me.

https://www.readability.com/addons

Cheapshot for link bait.

I don't even have an iDevice, but I'm still a fan of Instapaper: about 50% of my Kindle usage is reading Instapapered versions of tech blog posts on the train.

In theory it automatically sends the articles every morning, although I've found that the automatic sending is a bit flaky. I would (as a matter of public record [1]) happily pay for the service if that feature were more reliable.

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/samstokes/status/77852689605726208

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