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I think Readitlater (and lately Readability) strips down the content much better than Instapaper. Instapaper always has a lot of weird extraneous stuff around t

by goforth 15y ago

I think Readitlater (and lately Readability) strips down the content much better than Instapaper. Instapaper always has a lot of weird extraneous stuff around the text. The others do not. +1 for them.

state_machine 15y ago
I've been using Instapaper (mostly on programming related blog posts [standard WP/Blogger templates] and major magazine articles [Vanity Fair, Economist, etc]) for a while and rarely found this to be the case. It has almost always stripped unneeded markup well, often providing a superior reading experience on the iPhone than iOS Safari's rendering of the original content. Are there any specific sites/types of pages you've had trouble with?
- joebadmo 15y ago
  My only real complaint about Instapaper is that it often seems to strip out the byline, and sometimes even the name of the publication, leaving me without some of the context I like to have when reading an article. (Here's an example of missing byline: http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bookrags.com%2Fnews%2Fcover-story-the-zen-of-eminem-moc%2F&article=154409465 http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bookrags.c... (the article is written by Zadie Smith, which I find to be very important information.))
TetOn 15y ago
In fairness, it's worth noting that Readability app is Instapaper; it's just been repackaged. http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/05/instapaper-readability/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/05/instapaper-readability/
- goforth 15y ago
  Send a page to Instapaper. Then send to Readability. I guarantee you will like Readability more. Try it.
- goforth 15y ago
  Not true. Read it again -- the partnership is different. Readability was stripping away stuff long before it's partnership with Instapaper, and Safari incorporated it long before said partnership.
- goforth 15y ago
  https://www.readability.com/about https://www.readability.com/about

by goforth 15y ago

state_machine 15y ago

I've been using Instapaper (mostly on programming related blog posts [standard WP/Blogger templates] and major magazine articles [Vanity Fair, Economist, etc]) for a while and rarely found this to be the case. It has almost always stripped unneeded markup well, often providing a superior reading experience on the iPhone than iOS Safari's rendering of the original content. Are there any specific sites/types of pages you've had trouble with?

joebadmo 15y ago
My only real complaint about Instapaper is that it often seems to strip out the byline, and sometimes even the name of the publication, leaving me without some of the context I like to have when reading an article. (Here's an example of missing byline: http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bookrags.com%2Fnews%2Fcover-story-the-zen-of-eminem-moc%2F&article=154409465 http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bookrags.c... (the article is written by Zadie Smith, which I find to be very important information.))

TetOn 15y ago

In fairness, it's worth noting that Readability app is Instapaper; it's just been repackaged. http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/05/instapaper-readability/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/05/instapaper-readability/

goforth 15y ago
Send a page to Instapaper. Then send to Readability. I guarantee you will like Readability more. Try it.
goforth 15y ago
Not true. Read it again -- the partnership is different. Readability was stripping away stuff long before it's partnership with Instapaper, and Safari incorporated it long before said partnership.
goforth 15y ago
https://www.readability.com/about https://www.readability.com/about