I’ve been getting a lot of requests for this one, so I thought I’d throw something together. If you have any leftover articles hanging around in Instapaper, you can now import them into Read it Later.
Try it out: Instapaper to Read It Later Importer
This importer should be considered beta. I didn’t have a large Instapaper account to test with 
If you have any issues, just give me a shout. Enjoy!
Version 2.1.1 is out now. You can grab the latest at Mozilla add-ons: Download
Please report any problems that you run into at Read It Later Support.
Update: After speaking with a number of other developers, including Silvio from Reeder, I’ve decided that the best thing to do is re-enable MobileRSS’s API key. The developers who made MobileRSS have a number of other apps with Read it Later support (on Twitter, iPhone and iPad). I’ve discovered that all of these apps use the same API key so disabling it unfairly affects an enormous number of innocent Read It Later users using the developer’s other apps.
Ultimately the decision of what app to use/support should be up to the user. While I may have strong opinions when it comes to defending follow developers, I will leave the decision about what apps to use up to you, the user. It seems that this issue has gotten enough attention that I hope users will have enough information to make their own decision.
Thank you all for your support and feedback.
(Now get off the internet and go drink some Eggnog.)
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A recent update to the popular MobileRSS application was inappropriate. It appeared to be an almost identical one-to-one clone of another application: Reeder.
Source: http://reederapp.com/ripoff
Story: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/12/22/when-is-design-inspiration-just-outright-theft/
Inspiration and imitation are a natural part of competition, especially in a market as tight as news readers. But in this case, I personally felt that MobileRSS went too far. As a solo developer, I rely on app sales to support myself. A lot of other iOS developers do the same, including Reeder. We simply don’t do things like this to each other.
As a result, I have decided to disable MobileRSS’s API key for the time being. This is not an app that I would like ReadItLater to be a part of in its current form.
This is a tough decision because MobileRSS was the 3rd highest news app used by Read It Later users over the last year. Understandably, a lot of you are going to lose functionality that you may have paid for. I do not want to throw all of you under the bus as a result of this decision.
If you have bought MobileRSS and were using it as your main news reader, please drop me a line at support@readitlaterlist.com and I will do my best to find a way to offset the cost for you. (Please include your username)
I just updated the Read It Later App Directory to include 72 more applications that have Read It Later support.
The Read It Later platform is now host to over 2300 user created applications and mashups that span across every major platform. These include a lot of one-off personal mashups, projects under development, open source projects, userscripts, and more.
More than 130 applications have been publicly released and are now listed in the App Directory.
Here are some of the 70+ new additions:
In the wake of rumors that Delicious is being shutdown, some users may be interested in importing their Delicious bookmarks into Read It Later.
You can use the import tool here:
Joliprint, a service that lets you create PDFs from web content, just added special support for Read It Later users.
Their conversion outputs a nicely formatted PDF, complete with images, that looks great on paper or in an ebook reader with PDF support.
You can get the Joliprint Read It Later bookmarklet and learn more here:
If you are using the Read It Later Firefox extension, I’d love your help in testing an upcoming version of the add-on.
In preparing for the upcoming Firefox 4 release, I had to make a number of big changes to the extension’s backend. From the user perspective, nothing new should have changed. This is what I’d like help testing.
Even if you are not using the Firefox 4 betas (and are still on 3.5 or 3.6), I could still use your help. Just install the beta (linked below) and make sure that no functionality has broken or degraded.
Thanks!
Please report any problems that you run into at Read It Later Support. Be sure to say you are using the beta.
I just submitted version 2.3.1 of Read It Later for iPhone/iPad to the app store. December is always a hard month to get app updates approved (Apple has their hands quite full), but I’m hoping this will get approved before the Holidays.
I just completed rolling out some updates to the new Article View. Using reports sent in from users I was able to make a number of big improvements that takes accuracy even further. I also managed to speed up the parser in some cases by 10x.
Thanks to everyone who sent in reports. Please continue to do so, even if it’s just for a minor imperfection. I’m being ruthless about keeping the Article View as clean as possible.
Hope you’re enjoying the new view!
Note: If you find an article that doesn’t give you the option to report, you can use Share -> Email to email the link to support@readitlaterlist.com and I’ll use it when testing.
Read It Later 3.0 will be made up by 6 major releases. Today, I’m releasing the first: The 3rd generation Text View (now named the Article View), which lands alongside version 2.3 of Read It Later for iPhone/iPad.
The new Article View is without a doubt, the most advanced and accurate text parser on the market today.
Distilled. The new Article View is the cleanest text parser available. It’s highly skilled in presenting just the article in its purest form, with none of the extraneous page content you’ll see in similar parsers.
Images. View all the images from the article, including any captions and even photographer’s credits.
Videos. Includes all embedded videos within the article.
Meta. Includes information about the article like date published and authors.
Fast. It’s fast. Really fast. Even with images, downloading is faster than ever.
The Article View allows great content to be read the way it was meant to be: with a focus solely on the words themselves. But writing great content is hard work, which is why I’ve worked hard to ensure the new Article Parser maintains credits to authors and photographers.
No other text parser makes any effort to preserve attribution to the author of the content. (When they do, it’s surrounded by junk content from the header of the page because the parser failed to grab the content accurately.) The connection an author has with their readership is of the utmost importance and the new parser does everything it can to preserve that. Authors are always attributed and their names are linked to their bio (when available).
You’ll notice that I am no longer referring to the Article View as the ‘text view’. The first reason is simply because the Article View now offers images and video, not just text. The second reason is because calling it the ‘text view’ leads to some incorrect assumptions about what it is suppose to do. While working on the new parser, I went over 2000+ reports from users of when they found a text view that didn’t work. A lot of these were of non-article content like bus schedules, homepages, pdfs, etc. For non-article content, you should be using Read It Later’s incredibly accurate full-web view/downloader. (And this choice just got a lot easier).
You’ll find that the parser works on an amazing number of sites. It’s built on natural language detection and therefore works with some of the ugliest code and layouts imaginable. It does not rely on specific site rules (ex. “if nytimes, use this section”, etc). I also will never ask a publisher to use proprietary tags or modify their site’s layout to make it work with my parser. There are very few instances where Read It Later’s Article Parser should have a problem finding an article, but in the rare case it does not, it’s the parser to blame, not the publisher.
iPhone/iPad Users:
All new items downloaded after upgrading to version 2.3 will use the new parser. To get the new Article View for any of your previously downloaded text-views, you’ll need to redownload them. (See How-To Redownload)
While text views in Read It Later Free will utilize the new Article Parser for text, viewing images and embedded media is a Pro-only feature. If you haven’t already upgraded to Pro, here is what else you are missing.
Web/Digest Users:
The web interface will utilize the new Article Parser for text, but viewing images and embedded media is a Digest-only feature. To view images and embedded media on the web, you’ll need Read It Later Digest. You can learn about Digest here.
Browser Extension Users:
The updated Article Parser will be coming to your extensions very soon.
Version 2.3 of Read It Later for iOS is available today and it brings a number of new features centered around the new Article View: Read about the new features in version 2.3 here.