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Making Reading Easier
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Keeping Up and Keeping Track: Personal Information Management and
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Making Reading Easier
Why Talk about Reading?
Read it Later, Plus
Have It Read to You
The Subscription Model
Keeping Found Things Found
Having it All?
Note-Taking and Archiving
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Why Talk about Reading?
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Read it Later, Plus
Read it Later, Plus: Read it Nice, Read it Later, Read it Different
​Read it Nice:
Blue light
f.lux: software to make your life better
(Windows, Mac, Linux)
watch the demo here
Android - has built-in blue light filter; can also use more granular apps such as
Twilight
iOS has
Night Shift
built in
(so do Macs
, but you may still prefer f.lux)
Windows 10 has
Night Light
- I use it all day
(It also helps to turn down the brightness of your screen manually)
Other options...
Read it Later, Read it Different:
Instapaper: Save interesting web pages for reading later
(can send to Kindle; download as ebook)
This is what I use...
Apps and Saving Options
(including send to Kindle (settings). Update: This is now a premium feature :-(
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Help/FAQs
8/9/18 update: Instapaper recently became an independent company, and some services/functionality are now
premium only
Pocket
(Integrated into Firefox and eventually purchased by them (Mozilla); works with other browsers/apps)
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Help/FAQs
Apps and Options
Also has a
Premium option for $
Send to Kindle
(Amazon's E-Ink ereader, The Kindle Fire, free apps for phones and tablets)
Browser services
Immersive Reader
(Microsoft Edge, other Microsoft products)
Firefox Reader View
(integrated with Pocket)
test me
Chrome
Reader Mode
Other browsers have enhanced reading options as well
Other services...
Have It Read to You
Text-to-speech applications (Inside Higher Ed)
Immersive Reader and read out loud (Microsoft Edge)
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