Some New and Interesting Readers
I’ve run across a few interesting tools for making reading the web a bit easier. Depending on what you are after, one of these might suit…
a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.
One reading list, everywhere you are
Use the bookmarklet to add things to your reading list, then sign in to the site later when you have the time to read. Designed for the longer-form materials that actually require some time and concentration.
Flipboard (iPhone and iPad only)
World’s first social magazine
Combines RSS feeds with social media sites, and juggles the content expertly to give you a touch-screen appraoch to your custon news sources, and even your own and others’ “user-generated content”.
Foxit (Windows only)
A better PDF reader
As they state, it is much smaller than the Adobe readers, plus it lets you annotate your PDFs in a variety of ways, and also has document management and uploading features. This product may be available for iPads later in the year.
Flipboard is only for iPad and you cannot add rss feeds, just Twitter and facebook.
Yes – only for iPad, but I managed to add my favorite blogs to it. Perhaps that means they happen to have twitter or FB presences… Where an article is too long (more than a couple paragraphs), Flipbook links out to the site via the browser.