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By far my favorite app on the iPad so far, Instapaper takes articles on Web
pages and saves them for reading later.
Several times a day I run across longform pieces of text that I want to
read, but if I read them all right away I can't get any work done. So I use a
Safari bookmarklet to send the pages to Instapaper.com; many apps also
include Instapaper support. Later, I launch the Instapaper app on my iPad,
which syncs its content with instapaper.com, and read there (
Figure 7.21
).
Figure 7.21
Articles waiting
to be read in
Instapaper
Not only is it easy to read the articles I saved for later, Instapaper formats
them using clean typography and without the ads and other cruft that
surrounds most content on the Web.
While iBooks does a good job handling PDF files, it's not compatible
with files created in Microsoft Office (.doc, .ppt., and .xls) or Apple iWork.
To overcome these limitations, download the reader to end them all:
GoodReader (
www.goodiware.com).
GoodReader is one of those apps that does so much you feel like you're
scratching the surface. A more powerful PDF viewer than iBooks,
