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tl;dr Instapaper is great for iOS. A Kindle + Readability's Send to Kindle bookmarklet is an excellent alternative.

I was an avid Instapaper user on my iPod Touch until I got an Android phone. Marco has publicly stated his reluctance to support Android, and the third party apps for instapaper were all pretty pathetic. So I switched to Read it Later for a while.

Until I got a Kindle, which changed the game for me. Reading on the Kindle is so much a better experience than on another glowing screen that I don't even bother to try to read long form on the phone anymore.

I went back to Instapaper for a while, using a Windows app called Wordcycler to sync, but now use Readability's Send to Kindle bookmarklet. It cuts out the syncing part (the Kindle just downloads content automatically when it has an internet connection), and I've found that it retains author and publication data more reliably.

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Maybe I'm missing exactly what you want to do but I use instapaper+kindle for hands-free kindle syncing with zero hassle, all for free.

Save articles i want to read to instapaper, and once a day (or on demand with one click) it emails the .mobi file with your top instapapers to your kindle email address. Delivery is free if connected on wifi and you send to username@kindle.free.com.

http://www.instapaper.com/user/kindle

I save a lot more than 20 articles every day. I also don't like the way Instapaper bundles the articles in identically named packages.

Readability makes them all separate items in my reading list, and does a better job (last time I checked) of keeping the author and publication info.

Fair enough. I actually like the way instapaper puts it all together in to one file - i get a kinda of 'personal newspaper' that has it's own contents page etc. And no way I would get through more than 20 articles of reading daily.

Yeah, I can see how that would work. When I was using it, it didn't even have different names or dates or anything for the different files, so it was impossible to even guess where a specific article was.

And I didn't say anything about getting through more than 20 articles. I said I save that many. I try to read a few every night, but usually on a weekend or on an airplane is where I get a lot of reading done.

Marco has another bookmarklet currently available for testing by subscribers that lets you send individual articles directly to your Kindle, bypassing your Instapaper queue entirely. I haven't tried this yet, however.

Every Kindle owner should know about Readability's Send to Kindle feature and Calibre's e-book converter. Long live e-ink!

It's the only thing I wish had an equivalent on the nook. (There's plenty of ways to sync a feed, but I plug my nook into a computer about once every two months.)

Is Readability's Send to Kindle only available for the $5/mo subscription?

klip.me's "Send to Kindle" extension is free and also pretty awesome http://www.klip.me/

No; in fact, you don't even need an account. Just add kindle@readability.com to your Kindle's approved sender list & install the browser extension[0] or bookmarklet[1].

0: http://www.readability.com/addons 1: http://www.readability.com/bookmarklets

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