![]() ![]() I use my Kindle all the time so I appreciate a "no clicks required" workflow. This is a common complaint and why I like document delivery to the Kindle. Perhaps you've tried this before but then never visited the Instapaper App or Website. So you're building a queue of links that is sent to Instapaper. You can get more details on that in my blog post Two Must-Have Tools for a More Readable Web. I even made a flowchart a few years back. I don't stress, I click Read Later and the document is shipped off to Instapaper. What this means it is that Instapaper is ready and waiting for me in every location where an interesting piece of long-form reading could present itself. You'd be surprised how many apps support Instapaper once you start looking for this. I've also logged into Instapaper from all my social apps so that I can Read Later from my iPhone Twitter Client for example. I've put it in every browser I use, even Mobile Safari. I have a bookmarklet from Instapaper that says "Read Later" on my browser toolbar. I am naturally and organically creating a personalized book for weekend reading. The stress and urgency (and open tabs) are gone. Think about how amazing that is and how it can change your relationship with content on the web. I have these websites, papers and interesting links rolled up and delivered automatically to my Kindle every week. Some folks make bookmarks, have folders called "Links" on their desktops, or email themselves links. These are often in the form of what I call "long-form re ading." Hackernews links, NYTimes studys, academic papers, etc. You get a bunch of links that flow through your life all week long. So if Open In New Tab doesn't mean Read Later, what does? Why, READ LATER does! This gets even better when you combine a Read Later tool like Instapaper with an Amazon Kindle like my new Kindle Paperwhite (I reviewed the Paperwhite last week.) Inserting a Kindle into your Life's Workflow ![]() Remember that "open in new tab" rarely means "read it later." It usually means "use up memory and let this page run in the background until eventually declare tab-bankruptcy and close them all." You can even combine articles into one tidy digest with the articles arranged like chapters in a book.I've talked about Instapaper before when I tease folks of having 42 tabs open. That way, whenever you send an article to one of those services, it also gets sent to your Kindle. Now, Tinderizer gets the job done, but if you use a read-it-later service like Instapaper or Pocket, you can integrate those with your Kindle instead. RELATED: Get More From Your Kindle: Tips, Tricks, Hacks, and Free Books One Click Sending with Instapaper or Pocket If you’re not a big fan of clutter, you might want to take a look at our next technique. If you clip a ton of articles to read later you’ll have pages worth of them on your Kindle. If it’s so simple, why even bother with anything else? Well, if you use Tinderizer a lot, you’ll notice one thing right away: every article you clip and send to your Kindle is its own document. That’s all there is to it for every article you want to read on your Kindle, click the bookmarklet, and the Tinderizer server will ship a neatly formatted document to your Kindle. If you were so inclined you could download the source code, read over it, and even host your own personal Tinderizer system on your private server to maintain total control over the system. It’s been around since 2011 (we’ve been using it since then without a hitch) and the project is completely open source. If you’re looking for the most dead-simple tool around, we’d strongly suggest you check out Tinderizer (formerly known as Kindlebility). RELATED: How to Check Out Library Books on Your Kindle for Free The second is using a service like Instapaper or Pocket, which let you save your articles for reading later on Kindle and in mobile apps for iOS and Android. ![]() The first is Tinderizer, a simple one-click article formatter. Rather than give you a single solution and call it a day, we’re going to highlight a few tools we’ve used over the years with great success and suggest (based on their long track records and stability) you can pick the one that fits best with your work flow. There are tons tools that offer some sort of send-to-Kindle functionality, but they aren’t all created equal. Fortunately it’s a snap to send all those great articles to your Kindle so you can read them at a convenient time. It’s so easy to find interesting things to read online, but it’s tricky to find the time to read them. ![]()
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