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Marco arment instapaper5/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Most of Kottke’s problem with ebook readers can be solved in software Instapaper support on the Kindle was almost enough to make me get one…but not quite yet. I don’t particularly enjoy reading text on the iPhone I’d prefer a larger e-ink screen. Amazon and B&N) view them as portable bookstores.īut there are a lot of people - including, significantly, most people over age 40 - who don’t like reading tiny text on bright LCD screens in devices loaded with distractions that die after 5 hours without their electric lifeline.Īgreed. I know the functionality exists on these devices to read blogs, magazines, newspapers, etc., but they’re marketed as book readers (Arment even calls them “ebook readers” instead of “e-readers”), the user experience is optimized for book reading, and the companies (esp. And this is what is frustrating for me…the Kindle seemed right for buying books but not for what I want it for: reading all that other stuff. The screen is still great…the rest of it didn’t work at all for me. But the Kindle? I tried it and didn’t like it. About 0.5% of those pages are from books. I do a *ton* of reading, upwards of 100-150 pages a day when I’m working full-time. I want a good e-reader more than anything…I instantly fell for the screen when I saw the Sony Libre a few years ago. (The ability to do this easily will give Barnes & Noble a huge advantage over Amazon.) And they’ll spread via good, old-fashioned, in-person referrals from friends and coworkers. Most people won’t instantly jump to buy ebook readers after seeing them in TV commercials or liveblogged keynotes. Marco Arment posted a thoughtful reply to my off-the-cuff post about e-readers and I wanted to respond to a couple of things. ![]() “Don’t break the chain,” he said again for emphasis. Your only job next is to not break the chain.” You’ll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. He said for each day that I do my task of writing, I get to put a big red X over that day. The next step was to get a big red magic marker. He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. ![]() Reading this and looking at the chart of his completed Activity circles reminded me of Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity secret. I’ve been walking Hops around the same streets for four years, but now I’ve been discovering new streets and paths just to extend our walking distance and try to beat my previous walks. ![]() I take more walks, and I walk faster and further than ever before. Any Apple Watch owners can probably guess why: I have a good run going on my daily Activity circles, and I want to keep it going.Įver since getting the Apple Watch, not only have I been getting more consistent exercise, but I’m pushing myself further. I’m traveling this weekend, and I’ve been doing something I’ve never done: I’ve been using the hotel’s gym. Additional details and screenshots can be found at the Instapaper Blog.Marco Arment writes about how the Activity circles on his Apple Watch have made him more active. Arment indicates that he plans to “experiment with more radical interface changes in the future” once he’s actually used an iPad, but he felt that having an iPad-native Instapaper app available at launch was more important than waiting to perfect the app. Arment also plans to make Instapaper Pro a universal iPhone and iPad application as he doesn’t “want anyone subjecting themselves to the iPhone edition in pixel-doubled mode.” The universal version will be a free upgrade for existing Instapaper Pro users and will allow new users to use a single app on either the iPhone or iPad without having to purchase separate versions. Arment mentions that he had originally planned to wait to release a native version of Instapaper until he actually had an iPad available to work with, however after seeing the pixel-doubled iPhone version in the iPad simulator he found it “completely unusable.” As a result he decided that a native iPad version was necessary sooner rather than later. In a blog post on his site, Arment confirms that Instapaper is coming to the iPad “possibly even on day one.” The new design is described as very similar to Instapaper Pro with “slight interface tweaks and redesigns where appropriate.” The most significant visual changes have been made to the landscape view with the folders now appearing in a sidebar to the left of the main content listing. Marco Arment has released details on the upcoming iPad version of his popular Instapaper offline reading app. ![]()
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