Monday, December 3, 2012

Save Your (Online) Reading!

Lets talk about reading articles online. There are so many online publications you will have to get organized, especially if you want to keep up with these two:



Instapaper is a useful resource for the task! Create a free account and save all of those interesting articles, neat present ideas, or websites to one source. The best feature is the "Read Later Bookmark", this is just like a regular bookmark. But(!) instead of clicking on it and going to a specific page, it saves the current page to your Instapaper account. Pretty neat huh?

So lets say its morning and you are getting ready for work. As usual, you check the Lake Forest Library blog and are reading this great post about classical music.You want to finish it, but you have to go to work. Just click on the bookmarklet and the article is saved to your account!

And while we are talking about online publications, take a look at Flipboard, an Apple app. Flipboard combines popular blogs and publications into various categories (eg Science, Design, News). With an account, you can easily scan through the new articles published in your interest areas. (It also lets you save an article to Instapaper so you can read it on your computer!)

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