Instapaper

Instapaper, article.
It's an easy way to later find articles you wanted to read on the web, maybe on another device, and with better formatting. I'm surely gonna get it when it comes for the iPad.

The iPhone app, by reformatting articles, also actually makes the web usable on a handheld device, something I have definitely not regarded it as before. Actually it's an excellent reading experience for the screen size. Especially with the pro version's "tilt scrolling" which sounds silly, but is done well, if you have it turned on and tilt the iPhone (or iPod Touch) slightly, you can have it scroll at about the same speed you read [update: that turns out to only be true for news and such, for more substantial text, not], and it's surprisingly easy to control. It's actually much better than the hit-the-right-side-of-the-screen system used for ebooks. (Is it still called "clicking" when there's no button and no mouse?)

I think this will replace my Kindle for article reading. On the Kindle (even with the Calibre app to update it) it's very slow to sort through several web sites and see what's updated and what's interesting. It's much easier on my Mac Pro, and I just click the Instapaper bookmark for desired articles and read them later on the Touch.

Update: You can also get Instapaper as a browser to convert a web page to a single long column which fit on the small screen. This is brilliant! It's a feature that Safari on the iPhone/Touch really should have had since long.
It also has a dot and a "com" key in the keyboard by default for typing in URLs, something I also don't get why Safari has.

Update:
In Snow Leopard, this service will make it so you don't have to load a page before saving it. (You need to have "Growl" installed.)

Update:

M. Pipolo said:

Instapaper is GREAT. It, along with Mail and Safari, is one of the 3 absolutely essential apps on my iPod/iPhone. I imagine his iPad version will rock. Everyone should at least download the free demo version... you'll be hooked.

I particularly like the fact that my RSS reader, NetNewsWire for Mac, has Instapaper support built right in, so I can send articles to my iPod directly from the headlines view with a simple keystroke. Brilliant!