"Read later" services have revolutionized the consumption of website pages in a clean, easy to read format -- but what if you want to collect a group of web pages and bundle it into one handy e-book style package? Readlists comes to the rescue.
Arc90 Lab in conjunction with Readability have announced "a new experiment" from its labs on Tuesday called Readlists. This free web service assembles a group of links, then conveniently bundles them into an e-book for later reading on a Kindle, iPad or iPhone.
"We are pleased to release a new experiment today: Readlists, a free and incredibly convenient app for collecting, sharing, and enjoying bundles of articles, poems, recipes -- you name it," the company announced on its blog today. "It's as simple as cutting and pasting links to ordinary web pages, that are then transformed into a clean reading view, but with the power to send them as specially tailored collections: to email, to Kindles, even as ePub-standard iBooks on your iPhone and iPad devices."
Readlists harnesses the power of the Readability API, which "transforms conventional reading material into a clean, standalone bundle for sharing and consuming." The service requires no software, no technical knowledge and most of all, no fuss.
"To create your own Readlist, click the 'Make a Readlist' button at www.readlists.com," the website explains. "Then, simply cut and paste a URL from any web article into the empty list you see. Give the collection a title and short description, click 'Add', and you're good to go! Your e-book file will be beautifully formatted and available to peruse on your device of choice. Add as many articles as you like."
Readlists.com requires a free Readability account in order to own and manage your Readlists, which can be sent to any Amazon Kindle, to the iPhone or iPad via iBooks, as an emailed or downloaded ePub file, shared on Facebook or embedded into your own blog post or Tumblr page simply by pasting code provided by the website.
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