I even find it better than the iPad app, which is excellent in its own right, mostly because it allows for background delivery.
Within that context reading my Instapaper queue on my Kindle is the most comfortable experience I’ve found. But most importantly it can only be used for reading which enforces a mental focus that I find very relaxing. When paired with a reading light you can comfortably read in any context. The insane battery life and tiny size means that you can always have it with you. While it isn’t without flaws, the experience of reading long-form content on the Kindle is the best of any device I’ve tried. The Kindle is a device with a singular focus, reading. For this walk-through I’m using the Kindle 4, in my opinion the best of the current Kindles available.īefore diving into the details I want to try and explain why this feature is so incredibly useful and has changed so fundamentally how I read content from the web.
So I’m going to walk through how to set this up and discuss some of the options involved. Since I wrote about how I use this technique to increase the calmness of my day last week, I have had a few people ask me exactly how this works. Instapaper can deliver your Read Later queue to your Kindle for perfect offline reading. If you use Instapaper for your offline reading of web articles (and you should), you may be using it while totally unaware of one of the best features of the service. I have written an updated version of this article targeted for the Kindle Paperwhite.