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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.

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Actually multi-page stitching just got added to the browser bookmarklet, relevant blog post: http://blog.instapaper.com/post/18556429689

Marco previously felt uncomfortable implementing this feature (http://www.marco.org/2011/07/19/siracusa-multipage), so I wonder what prompted the change in policy.

"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 can understand his dilemma, but this policy unfortunately makes the social feature of Instapaper almost unusable. You want to Read Later a bunch of articles your friends have liked? You have to load each one of them up just so you can add it later.

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