![]() ![]() Their system is all cloud based and uses open standards, so choosing Kobo allows users to build their libraries without getting stuck on a particular platform. ![]() Kobo currently has over 2.2 million e-books in its library, from free classics to New York Times bestsellers, and has a subscription plan that offers acces to many of the most popular newspapers and magazines. “With Kobo’s integration with Instapaper, readers can clip, save, and read this content anytime, anyplace they choose using the Kobo eReading application for iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.” “People are constantly discovering a wide variety of great information on the web, but they don’t always have the time to read everything that they come across,” said Mike Serbinis, Kobo CEO. The newest feature in their standard app is its integration with Instapaper, which allows users to read long form web text, save text for later viewing, and allows users to sync their Instapaper text instantly to their other iOS devices. Called "Reading Life," iPad users can now view statistics about their user preferences and even earn achievements for their reading prowess. Their app seems to be doing fairly well, and has some cool features that are unique to the platform, such as its innovative social reading platform. they choose using the Kobo eReading application for iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. With an e-reader of their own on sale for $149, Kobo isn't exactly the smallest of the Amazon challengers. With Kobos integration with Instapaper, readers can clip, save. Obviously these companies are going to have a hard time beating out the downloadable content of Amazon, but Kobo aims at getting people to use their app to help them read the web. With the public eye squarely on Amazon and Apple's own book system, the smaller players are doing their best to keep up with the Jones'. It's hard to keep up with the multitude of e-readers on the market these days. Guess I'll have to get unlazy one of these days and actually try it out :P. For a few articles here and there, Print to PDF or saving the HTML like you said would probably suffice (and not eat up a staggering amount of memory while it does it). It'd probably just be a few articles here and there. I also wouldn't want to read "everything" on the go. The only big problem I have is that Calibre takes up a good 600 megs of ram for some reason on my computer. So rather then manually saving, converting, and transferring each article to the Kobo manually, you get a RSS feed type thing that is automated. It was revealed on and was released in the U.S. But after some thinking, I believe the advantage of this system is you can use the Calibre fetch news function to automatically aggregate all the individual pages you 'bookmark'. The Kobo Touch (also called the ' Kobo Touch eReader ') is the third generation of the Kobo e-reader device designed by Kobo Inc. I was thinking the same thing when I read this post. The Kobo’s free app provides a slick user interface coupled with 1.8 million fr Kobo, the Canadian E-reader service has recently announced that its iOS apps will now be integrated with the popular ‘save it for later’ service Instapaper. Despite being a lesser-known eReader, this is a great feature for Kobo owners. ![]() If you just saved in HTML and then converted to EPUB, the result would be much nicer than the PDF conversion. Pocket is similar to Instapaper in that it focuses on social sharing and. ![]()
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