5 handy tools for deferred reading without the Internet

1. Pocket

• Price: shareware.
• platforms: web, Android, iOS, Kobo.
• Widget Browser: Chrome, Firefox, Opera.
• Subscription: $ 50 per year.

Pocket - is one of the most popular applications for the preservation of the favorite materials for later. The main advantage is to synchronize on multiple devices. Pocket keeps your link to the article and automatically downloads it for offline viewing. Also it has its own tape personalized advice, which is based on the analysis of the materials you saved, if you like to read Appendix recipes or articles about Italian cuisine, the recommendations will get the fun that other users have read on this theme.

Pocket has a very simple and nice design, as well as his black theme. Font and layout, you can choose for themselves. However, to customize the interface for each individual device can not be: if you choose a certain font on your phone, then in application on your computer, you will have the same font.

We have a paid subscription to Pocket Premium, after the purchase of which will disappear from your tape sponsored materials, and will keep copies of all of your favorite links, even if they are removed from the Internet.

To maintain a certain link in Pocket on the phone, it suffices to find the button "Share" on your device and select the application. Further, it is automatically loaded into your tape. If you use Firefox browser on a computer, save all your stuff is much easier than other browsers: simply click in the upper right corner of the Pocket button and go through your account. To put Pocket to another browser, set itself one of the proposed extensions below.

2. Instapaper

• Price: free.
• platforms: web, Android, iOS.
• Widget Browser: Chrome, Firefox, Opera.
• Subscription: not.

The most important competitor is the Pocket Service Instapaper. Despite the fact that the functionality of the two applications is nearly identical, Instapaper felt quite differently. In one click you can create your notes, send the article on the Kindle, use the versatile search of their materials.

In Instapaper is a very simple interface and fewer options for themselves than in Pocket. However, it does not make Instapaper design worse. On the contrary, the lack of redundancy and unnecessary elements makes your material into a kind of paper, which is pleasant to read over breakfast or in the subway. And even to your Instapaper account, you can connect a variety of services, such as Twitter, Facebook, Evernote and others. With them you will be able to save any material directly from the social network.

speed reading function Instapaper opens for you an interesting formula for reading the text: instead of the entire Articles on the screen one after another individual words, display speed can be adjusted by themselves. The app will tell you how much is left to read and how many words you read, using this feature. Very convenient for those who want to master the skill of speed reading, or simply to learn to focus on a specific text.

Since 2016 all the premium features Instapaper become available to anyone free of charge. If you are using Pocket, but decided to move to Instapaper, then know this: do it not so difficult, as it seems.

3. PaperSpan

• Price: free.
• platforms: web, Android, iOS.
• Widget Browser: Chrome.
• Subscription: not.

PaperSpan very similar to Instapaper: all its functions are free, but the app itself has a very simple interface, which is not difficult to understand. The only difference PaperScan from all the other applications in this list - it's the lack of any interesting features for reading. no speed readingOr special folders, which would automatically share your stored materials category - here you need to create a folder yourself.

This app is perfect for those who like to work with the text. And it's not so difficult to PaperSpan: you simply highlight the desired track and add to it the entire memo. For it is easy to go through the main menu, without opening a saved article itself. And if you want to listen to text, text to speech function will help you with this.

4. Offline pages in Chrome

In Chrome, you can save links as separate files, and then open them and read. Unlike other applications that are very article on the link and convert it into text, the browser only downloads the entire page - respectively about any settings Text to speech is not here. But if you would like to see a link to this in the form in which it is originally, the function browser is perfect to you.

If you want to save the page from a computer, go to the settings, select "Advanced Tools" and click on "Save Page As ...". You remains to choose the folder where you want to put your page. After that, it will be downloaded and you can open it for offline reading in the browser.

The Chrome application on phone save the page even simpler: click on the menu button and select the icon "Save". The article will be in the tab "Downloads", there you can read it as well as remove.

Also, the browser function is available to date version of the page that allows you to update the link and download it in a new way.

5. Reading List in Safari

In your browser, Safari for macOS and iOS for a long time there is a function of deferred reading Reading List. If Chrome downloads a reference, the Safari goes on the principle of Pocket and saves only the text so you can read it later. Reading List is synchronized between devices: you can read the text on your phone and on your computer.

see also

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