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Worth It? Saving Websites to Read Offline

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Emily Glazer

Emily Glazer

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Biography Emily Glazer
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Oct 21, 2011 3:26 pm ET

It seems like there’s never enough time for me to catch up on all my reading. I’ve printed out hard copies of articles, kept tabs open on Internet browsers and left magazines and newspapers floating around. Then I came across Instapaper.

Westchester, N.Y.-based Instapaper allows you to save links to your stories and bring them up at your convenience. It’s free to register on the site—and to sync to a Kindle—and costs $4.99 for an iPhone or iPad application. The website launched publicly in January 2008 and later launched iPhone and iPad apps and Kindle syncing. Founder Marco Arment initially created the website to fix his own problem: He’d find articles from various sites to read but wanted them ready at his convenience. Instapaper released a new application update this week and has amassed 1.8 million users.

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