NY TImes has a good article on the decline of printer sales. Glad I read it because I learned about new web services to solve a problem I have been having and I bet you also.

Rather than print out an article to read later, we hit “Read Later” or Read It Later, ShifD or Google Notebook and read the article on any computer anywhere.

Lots of times I find some interesting web article but I don’t want to read now and interrupt my workflow. [You know you read one article and hours later you wonder what happened to your productivity].

Wouldn’t it be great to bookmark in a quick list that you could instantly recall when ready and finish those articles. When I bookmark in Firebird I can’t find it again easily.

So I signed up [free] for the first one at http://www.instapaper.com

I was delighted to learn that they had just released a iPhone app also. Now that is real value added. So I can bookmark on PC and read on iPhone when I have some time free. Best of all they have an text optimized view that is easy to read without pinching or rotating. Also a web view when that is useful.

Web view

Text view of same page.

Very clean and readable formatting. No eye strain at all. As Micky D says “I’m loving it”

This is now my favorite app right up there with Twitterific. An app that really solves a web surfer’s info distraction overload.

Thanks Marco for a brilliant solution.